Nearly Legal
Posts focus on cases and developments primarily having to do with legal aid and housing law in the U.K.
Author: "Nearly Legal" is described as a "trainee solicitor with a legal aid franchised firm, who turned to the law as a mature career changer."
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Recent Posts from Nearly Legal
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Tenancy deposit – late compliance again
Da Costa v Pinter Bromley County Court April 2008 With thanks to the November Legal Action housing updates. This was a tenancy deposit and 3 x deposit penalty claim. The rent was £1,950 a month.…
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Weaver: Permission Refused
An Arden Chambers Eflash has just announced that the Supreme Court have refused permission to appeal in R (Weaver) v L&Q. We’ll try and get a link to the order ASAP. In the meantime, our…
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Section 2, LP(MP)A and proprietary estoppel: Where are we now?
The Issue One of the slight frustrations of being an aspiring academic is that you tend to think in bite-size terms as and when the tutorial cycle demands. We’ve just “done” the now familiar peaks…
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It is an ex-parrot
Scrowther v Watermill Properties [2009] EW Misc 6 (EWCC) Newcastle upon Tyne County Court Continuing the Norwegian theme we appear to have adopted for such cases, here we have a example of an ex-sale and…
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These we have missed…
And thanks to the Garden Court bulletin for pointing them out. A couple of cases not yet available on Bailii. R(Gardiner) v Haringey LBC [2009] EWHC 2699 (Admin), [2009] All ER (D) 301 (Oct). Or…
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Yeah, of course I’ll call
It’s a bit like one of those nights that just, you know, didn’t work out. You remember, it was all very slow, not really gratifying and, in the end, disappointingly inconclusive. The Government has released…
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Applying to set aside possession, or when is a trial not a trial?
Forcelux Ltd v Binnie [2009] EWCA Civ 854 This was the Court of Appeal hearing of an appeal from a decision by a Circuit judge on an appeal from a order to set aside a…
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A quick update from the ECJ
Readers might remember the case of LB Harrow v Ibrahim and another [2008] EWCA Civ 386 (noted by us here) where the Court of Appeal referred three questions to the ECJ concerning the rights of…
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I think they’re trying to tell us something
The European Court of Human Rights has just given judgment in Paulic v Croatia (App. No. 3572/06), a case on Article 8 and possession proceedings. Given the unbroken trend of authority from Connors to Zehentner,…
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Thoroughly premature planning injunction…
Brentwood Borough Council v Ball & Ors [2009] EWHC 2433 (QB) This was the hearing of an application for an injunction by Brentwood BC. The defendants were six gypsies who had together purchased a plot…