‘A woman is taking legal action after she was electrocuted in a central London park, putting her in intensive care and leaving her with memory problems.’
BBC News, 16th December 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Judgment of the Divisional Court of Griffiths J and HHJ Jarman KC (sitting as a Judge of the High Court) is the most significant treatment of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (“RH(W)A”) and the wider regulatory regime for Electrical Condition Reports (“ECR”) and fitness for human habitation to date.’
Gatehouse Chambers, 13th November 2024
Source: gatehouselaw.co.uk
‘The Housing Ombudsman has urged housing providers to improve their response to hazards ahead of the introduction of Awaab’s Law.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th December 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Plans to speed up the removal of unsafe cladding, including target dates for making buildings safe and tougher penalties for refusing to act, have been announced by ministers.’
BBC News, 2nd December 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Welsh government rules mean practitioners will have to meet stricter hygiene and safety standards in order to be given a licence, which they’ll have to renew every three years.’
BBC News, 28th November 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘David Owens and Helen Arthur explore a recent First Tier Tribunal decision regarding the meaning of “higher-risk building’ under the Building Safety Act 2022.’
Local Government Lawyer, 14th November 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The full extent of conditions at a rat-infested jail has been revealed in a report that calls for urgent improvements.’
BBC News, 12th November 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A builder fears he may not be able to walk his daughters down the aisle after he was left paralysed when he fell through a ceiling. Andrew Clifford misses the simple things he used to love – the gardening, washing the car and jobs around his family home in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Now, he says, he cannot wash or dress himself after he fell two years ago when he was working on a house for Mansfield-based Paul Freeman Ltd. The company was fined £40,000 on Monday at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court over a health and safety breach in relation to the fall.’
BBC News, 5th November 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Robert Bowker considers how the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) has dealt with fire safety cases where an improvement notice under the Housing Act 2004 has been served and an application for a remediation order under s. 123 of the Building Safety Act 2022 has been made.’
Local Government Lawyer, 6th November 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The widows of two stonemasons who died from a lung condition contracted during their work have warned of the dangers of “new asbestos”. Paul Gray and Stuart Johnson, who worked for the same stone production companies in Bradford and Leeds, were diagnosed with silicosis caused by silica dust. Law firm Irwin Mitchell, which secured settlements for their families after their deaths in 2019 and 2021, has claimed that West Yorkshire is a hotspot for exposure to the dangerous mineral.’
BBC News, 4th November 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A note on a couple of Upper Tribunal appeals of FTT determinations of rent – because there may be more of these applications and determinations when the Renters’ Rights Bill comes into force…
Kensington Avenue Ltd v Curlin (LANDLORD AND TENANT – RENT DETERMINATION – fair rent – s.70 Rent Act 1977 – sufficiency of reasons for FTT decision on open market rent and comparable properties) (2024) UKUT 341 (LC)’
Nearly Legal, 3rd November 2024
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘A bill which seeks to impose specific duties on employers to improve protections against violence and harassment, especially for women and girls, as part of their obligations to ensure workplace health safety and wellbeing is currently being considered by the UK parliament.’
OUT-LAW.com, 30th October 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com%20
‘A metal recycling firm has been fined more than £650,000 for failing to implement effective control measures to protect workers.’
BBC News, 29th October 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Housing Ombudsman has found severe maladministration for how a housing association failed to deal with damp and mould in a home for two years, which left the resident unable to sleep in her bedroom.’
Local Government Lawyer, 16th October 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A coroner has warned that gas piston ottomans could present a risk to life, after a woman died when her bed collapsed on her, trapping her between the mattress and the base.’
The Guardian, 14th October 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The notorious Strangeways prison has been put into emergency measures after standards of safety and hygiene were found to have collapsed, leaving the jail “fundamentally unsafe” for both prisoners and staff.’
The Independent, 10th October 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Businesses across the UK should examine the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) 2024 Food Crime Strategic Assessment and factor its key themes and overarching food crime methods into their risk assessments, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 1st October 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘A property developer who put “lives at risk” by falsifying building work documents and selling “unsafe” flats has been jailed.’
BBC News, 2nd October 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘This is a Circuit Judge (HHJ Melissa Clarke) judgment on, amongst other things, what amounts to unfitness for human habitation under sections 9A and 10 Landlord & Tenant Act 1985, and when the Court can make such a finding. As far as I know, it is the first judgment where this specific issue was argued, certainly at Circuit Judge level. I gather that permission to appeal was sought by Red Kite at the hearing, and refused, so there is the possibility of an appeal to the High Court.’
Nearly Legal, 29th September 2024
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘A business has been fined for selling fake Wonka chocolate bars around the UK, which included nuts that were not mentioned on the packaging.’
BBC News, 17th September 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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