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Housing Law Bulletin No 12 – updating service of 2015 on all issues relating to housing law

Welcome to this, our twelfth updating service of 2015 on all issues relating to housing law — whether social or private, landlord or tenant. Here, Niamh O’Brien offers a case law update : Mansing Moorjani v Durban Estates Limited [2015] EWCA Civ 1252 An unusual set of facts permits the Court of Appeal to review the legal basis for damages to be awarded for disrepair to premises let on a long lease.

22nd Dec 2015

Siân Gough acted for the younger children in the case of Hampshire County Council v A, B, C, D & E [2015] EWFC B186

The 22 day final hearing took place over a period of 19 months. The local authority were found to have extensively breached the family's human rights by the unlawful removal of the children from the parents' care, failure to fairly involve the parents in the decision-making process, the deliberate failure to disclose material evidence, failure to promote family life and the failure to undertake a fair assessment.

2nd Dec 2015

Housing Bulletin No 11 – Section 21 Notices

In this issue of 42 Bedford Row's Housing Bulletin Desmond Kilcoyne discuses Section 21 Notices: new law in force.

10th Nov 2015

Our first live event!

When it comes to fashion, let’s face it, most lawyers are the human equivalent of a beige turtleneck. Not the ones Lawyers Life, hang out with though. Lawyers Life held its first live event and it was fantastic.

10th Nov 2015

Chambers is delighted that Zimran Samuel has been appointed a Fellow at the London School of Economics

Zimran will be assisting with Law and Anthropology programme until 2018 while continuing to practice at 42 Bedford Row.

8th Oct 2015

Keri Tayler joins from Hampshire CC

Keri has joined Chambers from Hampshire County Council, where she spent 13 years advising on all aspects of Local Government law, specialising in the fields of education, child and adult social care.

10th Sep 2015

Housing Law Bulletin No 10 – Retaliatory Evictions Scheduled changes to the section 21 possession procedure

In this issue of 42 Bedford Row’s Housing Bulletin Peter Jolley discuses covers changes to the ’section 21 possession procedure' being introduced on 1 October 2015 by the Deregulation Act 2015, specifically restrictions upon certain landlords in using the section 21 procedure if a complaint has been received by their tenant about the condition of the property.

24th Aug 2015

Housing Law Bulletin No 9 – Regaining entry after a warrant has been executed

In this issue of 42 Bedford Row’s Housing Bulletin Stefan Liberadzki discusses the law relating to regaining entry to a property after the eviction has taken place.

13th Aug 2015

Housing Law Bulletin No 8 – What is a ‘good reason’ for not attending a possession hearing’?

This bulletin discusses what constitutes a ‘good reason’ for not attending a possession hearing when the Defendant is seeking to set aside the order made in their absence’.

6th Aug 2015