House recently saw a client who wanted to request a review of their section 184 decision letter which found them to be Intentionally homeless.
Section 202 reviews have always been, for some reason, the favourite part of my job but this letter rather depressed me. The reason was that it was shockingly bad. In finding the client Intentionally homeless [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Incompetent, negligent or something more?
Posted in Law stuff on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t forget your new forms!
Posted in LSC on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New set of forms mandatory as of 1st October 2008. Get them HERE, well tomorrow when they are supposedly going to be made available if the LSC experts can figure out where the ON button is located on the Spectrum ZX that they use.
Housing scams, tenants beware!
Posted in Random stuff on September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
House has come across a number of threads written by people who seem to have been or might have been the victims of rented housing scams and it seems to be a growing problem. Whilst Gumtree seems to be attracting a lot of these scammers, see HERE and HERE and HERE, it is worth remembering that any prospective landlord could [...]
Holiday
Posted in Uncategorized on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m off on holiday for a week. Stay well all.
One of those days.
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just having a moan but I really dislike days where no one ever seems to answer the phone and when someone answers they aren’t the person you want. Days where you leave a message but no one rings you back. Days when clients forget to bring in their proof of income. Days where clients don’t come in [...]
Quick housing package update
Posted in Random stuff on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A quick phone call to the DCLG has revealed that they are working on the finer points of the new package of housing measures announced here and that apart from the changes in housing costs the other measures are unlikely to be introduced ‘imminently’ whatever ‘imminently’ means to DCLG.
One year on
Posted in LSC on September 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Warning Ramble rating 9/10
This months editorial in LAG got me thinking about the impact of fixed cost cases and matter starts has had on me as an adviser and also of course on the clients that I see.
From my personal experience the motto of the new fixed cost regime could be ‘less for more’. I see a lot [...]
Shared ownership biggy.
Posted in Uncategorized on September 14, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Best go over to Nearly Legal and have a read of his post on shared ownership properties. It seems that a leaseholder may not share the benefit of house price rises.
An important one to note next time a shared ownership case comes up me thinks!
New Forms
Posted in LSC on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New CLS forms mandatory as of 1st October 2008.
Use them or be destroyed in the fires of LSC hell for all eternity or until you get another job.
I’ve tried to preview the new forms but they appear to be the old forms (IE version 13 for CW1’s). I’m probably being dumb though. Guess that’s why I have [...]
Interviewing clients, help.
Posted in Uncategorized on September 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
What do you do when you interview a client who just doesn’t make any sense. House had a client this week who rambled on about pretty much everything. I’m sure they had some mental health problems and whilst i tried to get to the point of why they wanted to see me it was a seemingly [...]
