mastodon 4.7.2Solicitor. Done housing law since 2006. The Guardian says top 5 for squalor. Legal Aid Housing Lawyer of 2018. Allegedly “ill-mannered and deliberately awkward”. Editor of nearlylegal.co.uk housing law site.
Misty city
A watercolour kind of morning.
Homelessness and Allocation - unlawfully restricting reasonable preference. Westminster CC try to argue an allocation scheme excluding most homeless applicants isn't unlawful because 'it allowed enough on to the register'. Scheme unlawful. https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2023/01/homelessness-and-allocation-unlawfully-restricting-reasonable-preference/
Disrepair claims farmers getting annoying - just been cold called on my mobile 'Hi this is the housing disrepair team, calling about your report to your housing officer'. I laughed. He hung up. Apparently they get around - https://who-called.co.uk/Number/03300017715#caller-id
Cladding chaos: Why some tenants are suffering from the drive to remove cladding https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/why-some-tenants-are-suffering-from-the-drive-to-remove-cladding
Tenant with incurable lung disease ‘caused by mould’ to sue Hackney council https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/22/tenant-with-incurable-lung-disease-caused-by-mould-to-sue-hackney-council?CMP=share_btn_tw
I presume they let the intern loose on product descriptions.
Well that was a traditional housing law Friday afternoon of stress and panic (‘why is no-one responding/reachable on the phone? Bastards!). Thankfully all resolved, or at least put off, by 5.30… Wine.
Law centre heads to Supreme Court (featuring my client @SaferRentingCH@twitter.com as intervener) https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/law-centre-heads-to-supreme-court/5114915.article#.Y9E5OvF24_c.twitter
Westminster allocation scheme unlawful as only allowed entry to homeless owed main housing duty, so frustrating 'homeless' reasonable preference' in s.166A(3), which is any Part VII homeless. https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/2023/30?s=09
Homeless people in English hostels at risk of return to streets as bills soar https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/30/homeless-people-in-english-hostels-at-risk-of-return-to-streets-as-bills-soar?CMP=share_btn_tw
I slightly miss Nadine. If she was Nadhim, she’d be out there, several sheets to the wind, insisting being ‘careless’ about several million in tax was every Briton’s right and a Brexit dividend.
Same.
Job ads - Wales. https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2023/01/job-ads-wales-2/