House wonders if anyone else has a housing related case that haunts them?! It might be a case where you now wish you did something differently or a case where the Judge ordered something that left you bewildered and perplexed.
House has case from the latter category that still occasionally pops up its ugly head to [...]
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Haunted! By a case!
Posted in Law stuff, Random stuff on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Distress for Rent Act 1737
Posted in Law stuff on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nearly Legal brings you upto the minute, excellent summaries and reports of all things Housing Law.
House brings you an 10 year old article about the Distress for Rent Act 1737 and those pesky post NTQ trespassers that I’m sure are the bane of every CLS Housing Adviser everywhere.
Also any clients in rent arrears beware for [...]
DWP misadvising non workers / econimically inactive
Posted in Law stuff on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THIS tribunal case (forgive the slightly indirect link but it’s a word file) highlights a personal bugbear of House’s.
House has had many pregnant clients or clients with children who are not considered ‘workers’ or whom are otherwise economically inactive that have been advised they aren’t entitled to claim JSA but should in fact claim IS only for [...]
Benefit in 192?
Posted in Law stuff on September 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
House recently IFR’d a housing case for a worker who works in a different organisation than House as a favor for said organisation. The case involved a homeless single man with no priority need (not enough for even a may). The adviser assisted the client in making a homeless approach and even rather kindly pointed out [...]
Landlord Insurance and rent lawfully due
Posted in Law stuff on August 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Hello
House apologises if this is silly but House has a question. If a tenant gets into arrears of rent and the landlord’s insurance then pays the landlord to cover the losses does that mean the tenant has less rent unpaid for the purposes of ground 8 and 10?
Duncan Lewis and Co
Posted in Law stuff on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting article on Mr Flack’s blog about Duncan Lewis and Co. Worth a look for sure.
‘Restricted Persons’, habitual residency and immigration, one for the purests?
Posted in Law stuff on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
House has recently had a few ‘restricted persons’ cases.
Habitual residency, as mentioned in paragraph 4, is never really an issue. However House has a query. Can a dependent child with an expired 6 month entry visa be habitually resident and therefore confer a priority need onto their parent whom is habitually resident?
Immigration is not for House! nor is [...]
sec 202 review question
Posted in Law stuff on June 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Apologies for what might be a daft question but let’s suppose that a client who has a dependent child goes to a LA and makes a homeless approach. Let’s just suppose that the LA don’t do any enquiries into whether it’s a dependent child and just decide it isn’t and so make a snap 184 decision which says [...]
Multiple Part VII applications
Posted in Law stuff on April 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Two issues that have popped up recently and House would appreciate some obviously informal views on them.
1) If a Local Authority takes a ‘Homeless application’ from a person and places that person into accommodation under sec 188 is another LA obliged to take a ‘Homeless application’ from that person if approached or can they say [...]
Hola! Cheeky case name help please
Posted in Law stuff on March 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Hello
A bit cheeky but can any wise sole remember the case (can’t remember how recent, but not that recent) in which a Local Authority tried to say an applicant wasn’t homeless as they had accommodation in some wierd country that was reasonable and available for their occupation. House thinks it was found that as they couldn’t afford to back it wasn’t available or [...]
