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Landlord & Tenant/Housing1

The Landlord & Tenant / Housing Group comprises over 20 members dealing with disputes by providing specialist advice and representation relating to all aspects of Landlord & Tenant and Housing law.

The Group regularly organises seminars and lectures for professional clients on developing areas of law (accredited by the Law Society to provide CPD points) and the Group's members contribute to a variety of publications on the subject of property law.

Members of the Group act for the full range of landowners from large corporations and local authorities to individuals, commercial and residential tenants, banks and building societies, licensees and trespassers. Members regularly appear in the Lands Tribunal and the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal.

A number of members of the group take work under the Bar Council's Licensed Access scheme (formerly referred to as Direct Professional Access), allowing licensed professionals (such as surveyors) to instruct members direct.

Members of the group have recently appeared in cases dealing with the following areas:

  • Possession and rent arrears matters
  • Business Tenancies
  • Succession
  • Trespass
  • Nuisance & Antisocial Behaviour
  • Disrepair
  • Service charge disputes
  • Right to Buy
  • Homelessness & Judicial Review
  • Disability Discrimination

 

Yemshaw v London Borough of Hounslow (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government intervening) (15/12/09)

UPDATE: The Appellant has now been granted permission to appeal to the Supreme Court, with a hearing expected in December 2010.

The Court of Appeal held that the term “violence” referred to in section 177(1) of the Housing Act 1996 required some form of physical contact, and that the term should be given its ordinary natural meaning. Matthew Feldman appeared for the Respondent.

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