If you’re Homeless or threatened with homelessness in 28 days and want assistance from a Local Authority then a Local Authority should treat you in accordance with the Housing Act 1996, particularly Part VII. In addition to this they should take note of guidance contained within the Homelessness Code of Guidance.
Unfortunately for you the Department [...]
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If you’re homeless and wonder why the LA won’t help you.
Posted in Gatekeeping, Uncategorized on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ilegal
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve finally stop slacking and updated the link for Ilegal. Go visit so that I’m not alone in asking lots of questions about financial eligibility!
FOS
Posted in Uncategorized on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quicky, have added a link for the Financial Ombudsman Service under ‘other places’. Some interesting, although not overly new, stuff on the mis-selling of PPI something that House is sure many of us folks have come across.
So that’s alright then
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
House survived the ‘BIG’ meeting with boss where House discussed some of the issues he’s rambled about on this blog. Apparently being nicey nicey to a Local Authority is because our organisation wishes to pursue ’collaborative working’ with Local Authorities. To House this means the organisation at least gets some money that might otherwise be spent inhouse (not [...]
Housing Associations please take note
Posted in Uncategorized on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Could Housing Associations be kind enough to stop using section 21’s on their assured shorthold tenants were offered such as a section 193 discharge offer. Whilst the tenant may well be guilty of some anti social behaviour could you please please please remember you can use grounds such as 12 and 14 of Schedule 2 of [...]
Does anyone use…
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Handy Law Links and Housing Resources links on this blog apart from me?
Just wondered
Handy rule of the day!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the LSC manual, Volume 2, re cost assessment
2.6 However, practitioners cannot be expected to be ‘walking law libraries’ (Johnson v. Valks. Court of Appeal 15 March 2000) and it may still be reasonable for time for checking on the application of established law or procedural rules to individual circumstances to be claimed, provided the reasons [...]
Erk
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘I’d like your organisation to take on my case as I think my solicitor isn’t helping me properly because their organisation receives funding from the Council that I have a dispute with’…
Erk… well this won’t be a 35 minutes case then
Ideal first appointment time?…
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Is there an optimum time for the first interview with a client?
According to the ‘higher powers’ within House’s organisation that time is 45 minutes. House (unsurprisingly) wonders at this.
House has always rather seen clients on a case by case basis. Some cases require not much more than 30 minutes but others, in fact the majority House finds, will take longer [...]
Dilema plus one
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
House’s job sure is firing out the dilemas (is dilema one m or two?!) it seems. House has now been told to go into a closed exceptional case (thatis about to be sent off to the LSC), pretend to be the previous caseworker and write notes justifying the time claimed as if I was that caseworker.
House can’t seem to [...]
