Amritpal is a Legal 500 ranked leading junior in social housing. He is well placed to handle cases of varying complexity, with a particular emphasis on homelessness appeals and cases involving discrimination, the public sector equality duty, and public law. 

Recent Cases:

• Instructed on behalf of an appellant in a homelessness appeal involving the interaction of the statutory restrictions under s.193(8), Housing Act 1996, with the suitability of the property as accommodation ‘in performance’ of the main duty (2024).
• In Webb-Harnden v Waltham Forest London Borough [2024] PTSR 431, Amritpal was led by Karon Monaghan KC in the Court of Appeal in an ‘out of borough’ homelessness case concerning indirect discrimination in context of the public sector equality duty (2023).
• Section 21 possession proceedings in which Amritpal’s defence challenged the validity of the notice on the grounds of incorrect HMO licensing (reported in Legal Action, October 2023).
• Judicial review challenging the lawfulness of ending the ‘interim housing duty’ in response to allegations of anti-social behaviour against the applicant in which the High Court granted interim relief (2022).
• Multiday harassment trial representing a single mother and her son who had faced persistent harassment by their landlord in which the court awarded substantial damages to them (2022).
• Instructed on behalf of a vulnerable victim of domestic violence in a complex case with intersecting mandatory ground possession proceedings, anti-social behavior injunctive relief proceedings, committal proceedings and an appeal. Issues in the case included discrimination arising from disability and indirect discrimination (2022–23). 
• Possession case challenging the local authority’s compliance with their duties towards the tenant, a former child in care by the authority, particularly in relation to a failure to provide the tenant with assistance under a pathway plan (2021).