Home Truths – An Introduction to the Renters’ Rights Bill – Local Government Lawyer
’42BR’s Housing team discuss the new Renter’s Rights Bill.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Category: landlord & tenant
Are You Fit to Deal with Unfitness? – Local Government Lawyer
‘Michael Grant and Matthew Timm explore the law relating to “fitness for human habitation” and the court’s approach to damages.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Breaking new ground – The tribunal’s approach to ‘just and equitable’ in Remediation Contribution Orders – Local Government Lawyer
‘The First Tier Tribunal (the tribunal) has handed down a judgment in the case of Grey GR Limited Partnership v Edgewater (Stevenage) Limited and others [2025] UKFTT concerning a Remediation Contribution Order (RCO), marking an important development in building safety legal proceedings.’
Local Government Lawyer, 20th March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
How does an assured shorthold tenancy become a secure tenancy? By accident! – Doughty Street Chambers
‘In the London Borough of Redbridge v G (Romford County Court, 5 February 2025), a series of unusual events lead to an assured shorthold tenant becoming a secure tenant.’
Doughty Street Chambers, 10th March 2025
Source: insights.doughtystreet.co.uk
Compulsory mediation in housing conditions claims – Local Government Lawyer
‘New rules on compulsory mediation could have a major impact on social landlords, writes Ibrar Hussain.’
Local Government Lawyer, 14th March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Didn’t bother trying to find her. She’s not there – Nearly Legal
‘A county court appeal in a tenancy deposit penalty claim, which is both a catalogue of ‘you don’t want to do it like that’, and has a significant point on the operation of section 48 Landlord and Tenant Act 1987.’
Nearly Legal, 12th March 2025
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
Starter tenancies, extensions, and section 21 claims – An ASB case. – Nearly Legal
‘Yorkshire Housing Limited v Scott. County Court at Scarborough. 30 October 2024. A section 21 based possession claim for a ‘starter tenancy’ for the reason of anti social behaviour.’
Nearly Legal, 9th March 2025
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
Commonhold reform: ‘a step forward but caution required in wave of property law reforms’ – OUT-LAW.com
‘The UK government has outlined plans to ban the sale of new leasehold flats in England and Wales in a move designed to embed a new commonhold model into the property market.’
OUT-LAW.com, 6th March 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
London ebike fire: landlords of ‘grossly overcrowded’ flat fined almost £100,000 – The Guardian
‘The landlords of a “grossly overcrowded” east London flat where a man died after an ebike battery started a fire have been fined almost £100,000 after pleading guilty to nine housing law breaches.’
The Guardian, 6th March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
Leaseholders’ legal victory over offshore landlord – BBC News
‘A group of leaseholders have won a legal battle to prove they were unlawfully deprived of the chance to take control of their own building when their landlord sold it to an offshore firm.’
BBC News, 5th March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Case notes in passing – adverse possession rules, sale and rent-back, and the evidential burden in service charge disputes – Nearly Legal
‘The Supreme Court considered para 5(4) to Schedule 6 Land Registration Act 2002 on the requirements for an application for registered title through adverse possession of land adjoining the applicant’s land.’
Nearly Legal, 2nd March 2025
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
The right to manage and equitable interests – Tanfield Chambers
‘Tenants of flats were given the right to have a manager appointed, to take over the landlord’s management of the building in which the flats were situated, in the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 but only if they could prove fault on the part of the landlord or managing agents. In order to make it easier for the tenants to wrest control of the management of the building from their landlord, the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (CLRA 2002) gave the tenants of flats the right to have the management of the building transferred to a company controlled by them as of right, without having to prove any default on the part of the landlord.’
Tanfield Chambers, 24th January 2025
Source: tanfieldchambers.co.uk
Access Injunctions – a discussion of some recent issues – St Ives Chambers
‘As housing practitioners, an application we see regularly is for an injunction for access for gas safety checks. Over the last 3 months, 4 issues have been raised with me so I thought it was a good time to write an article on the subject.’
St Ives Chambers, 21st January 2025
Source: d23mtoo6rceerw.cloudfront.net
The Deregulation Act 2015: A decade on – St John’s Chambers
‘In this article Brittany Pearce considers some of the difficulties still posed by the Deregulation Act 2015 for defaulting landlords and outlines the issues still outstanding following the Court of Appeal’s decision in Trecarrell House Ltd v Rouncefield [2020] EWCA Civ 760.’
St John's Chambers, 21st January 2025
Source: www.stjohnschambers.co.uk
Ombudsman sets out common failings of landlords when it comes to inspections following damp and mould complaints – Local Government Lawyer
‘The Housing Ombudsman has analysed four common failings of social landlords in a report on inspections and knowledge management within damp and mould complaints.’
Local Government Lawyer, 25th February 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
If it’s not on the list… (unless it is blank) – Nearly Legal
‘Uddin & Ors v Notting Hill Genesis (LANDLORD AND TENANT – SERVICE CHARGES – assured tenancies) (2025) UKUT 56 (LC). This was Notting Hill Genesis’ appeal from a FTT decision that service charges that it had been charged by the freeholder and in turn had sought to charge to its assured tenants were not payable under the tenancy agreements, and also were unreasonable in amount.’
Nearly Legal, 24th February 2025
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
Section 21 and Gas Safety again, and tools for tenants. – Nearly legal
‘Section 21 and Gas Safety again, and tools for tenants.’
Nearly Legal, 24th February 2025
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
Man fined for housing 18 people in three-bed house – BBC News
‘A landlord has been ordered by a court to pay £37,000 after 18 people were found living in a terraced house in north London.’
BBC News, 19th February 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Key reforms in the Renters’ Rights Bill and their impact on tenants and landlords – Kingsley Napley Real Estate Law Blog
‘This Bill, which was originally introduced by the previous government as the Renters’ Reform Bill, seeks to level-up the perceived current imbalance between residential landlords and tenants by bestowing on tenants greater rights and security. But critics argue that the proposed reforms go too far in favour of tenants. So, what are the current key reforms affecting private residential tenancies?’
Kingsley Napley Real Estate Law Blog, 11th February 2025
Source: www.kingsleynapley.co.uk
Intentional homelessness and tenancy obtained by deception – Nearly Legal
‘Munemo v City of Wolverhampton Council (2025) EWCC 4. This is quite the section 204 homelessness appeal of Wolverhampton’s review decision confirming the decision that Ms M was intentionally homeless.’
Nearly Legal, 9th February 2025
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
