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• The meaning of care and attention

  
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  SL v Westminster [2013] UKSC 27 is a very important case concerning the meaning of “care and attention” in the context of s.21, National Assitance Act 1948. We can only apologise for not writing it up sooner. All we can say is that the nearlylegal backlog of cases is threatening to rival the UK Border ...
  5 days ago

• Night Shelters, dwellings and housing benefit

  
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  This a late note on  OR -v- Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Isle of Anglesey CC  [2013] UKUT 065 (AAC) because, bluntly, I had read it quickly at the time and overlooked its broader significance. The issue was whether OR could receive housing benefit for his stays in a night shelter hostel. The First ...
  5 days ago

• Bedroom Tax Judicial Review update

  
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  Just to note that the 10 joined bedroom tax Judicial Review claims (for initial details see our note ) are listed for full hearing on Wednesday to Friday next week (15-17 May). The claims involve a range of challenges to the regulations involving disabled adults, disabled children and children unable to share rooms ...
  1 week ago

• To be incurred or not to be incurred?

  
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  Those with good memories will remember that a year or so ago the Upper Tribunal gave judgment in a case called  Om Property Management Ltd v Burr  ( our note here ) in which the issue was at what point in time does a cost became incurred for the purposes of s.20B, Landlord and Tenant Act 1985. It decided that costs ...
  2 weeks ago

• Intention and resulting trusts

  
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  Chaudhary v Chaudhary (not on bailii yet but on lawtel) is something of a puzzle, which hopefully will be solved when we see the full transcript (hint, hint). It may be important, but it’s a little early to say.  The one thing about it that isn’t a puzzle is that it is yet another case in which there is a family ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Shape of Things to Come.

  
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  In which two [now confirmed as three] Housing Associations behave very badly in anticipation of the benefit cap. Haringey is one of the pilot boroughs for the benefit cap, limiting the total amount of benefit, including housing benefit/LHA (and astonishingly Child Benefit) that any household can receive to £500 per ...
  3 weeks ago

• When is Article 8 available at the enforcement stage of the eviction process?

  
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  In R (JL) v SSD [2013] EWCA Civ 449 , the Court of Appeal “broke new ground”* by considering how Article 8 applied to the stage at which possession orders are enforced. Facts JL rented accommodation owned by the Ministry of Defence and had done so since 1989. It lacked security of tenure. She lived at ...
  3 weeks ago

• Regulatory dilemmas

  
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  The Regulatory Committee of the HCA has published Protecting Social Housing Assets in a More Diverse Sector , which is styled as a discussion paper, but which also contains some thought-provoking questions about how regulation can and should work in a much diversified, increasingly risky and entrepreneurial social ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tories to regulate private rented sector? Don’t get excited…

  
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  The detail of this may have passed you by at the time, it certainly did me, but amongst the wind and posturing of David Cameron’s ‘big speech’ in March on stopping immigrants from getting things from healthcare to driving licences was quite a significant snippet on the private rental sector. You have probably ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tenants! Be the best that you can be!

  
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  At the very beginning of social housing, with the Peabody Estates in the 1860s , prospective tenants faced imposed requirements that we would now consider to be extraneous to the tenancy: Mandatory smallpox vaccinations; curfews; and cleaning rotas before 10 am for communal areas, sinks and WCs. But even the ...
  3 weeks ago

• FLW College Conference Continues on Pickwick Lake 4-25-2013

  
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              | April 25, 2013   FLORENCE, Ala. – FLW College Fishing is headed to Pickwick Lake May 4 for the second of four stops in the Central Conference. Fifty college teams will be competing for a top award of $2,000 and a berth in the Central Conference ...
  4 weeks ago

• How Limited is that Partnership?

  
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  Salvesen and Riddell & Anor v. The Lord Advocate (Scotland ) [2013] UKSC 22 It is not common for us to cover Scots Law, or Agricultural Law, here. However, both mores are to be broken in the face of an interesting convention decision from the Supreme Court. Facts You will have to bear with me as the facts ...
  4 weeks ago

• Legal Aid Agency FAQs*

  
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  The Legal Aid Agency has released a set of ‘frequently asked questions’ on scope and funding after 1 April just gone. A copy is here . The housing section is at 74-109 There are few surprises, but worthy of note is the position on disrepair: 81. Are damages regarding housing disrepair in scope? Can I claim ...
  4 weeks ago

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