‘City and County of Swansea Council has rejected an allegation that it used the wrong boundary to appraise a planning application that affects the Gower area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB).’
Local Government Lawyer, 31st October 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Cornwall Council has admitted that accommodating a homeless youth on a campsite “went on for too long”, after criticism from the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.’
Local Government Lawyer, 31st October 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Home Office is regularly attending local authority meetings with vulnerable migrant families to help collect data that can be used to remove the families from the UK.’
Rights Info, 29th October 2018
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘Camden Council is to end a private finance initiative deal and take legal action against contractors in a dispute over the recladding of tower blocks.’
Local Government Lawyer, 30th October 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court will next week hear a key case on the service of a completion notice by a billing authority.’
Local Government Lawyer, 29th October 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘This was a challenge, arising from a possession claim, to the ‘one succession’ rule on secure tenancies.’
Nearly Legal, 28th October 2018
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Rules governing the right to take over a social housing tenancy when the former tenant dies do not discriminate unlawfully between widows and divorcees contrary to Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the High Court has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 25th October 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Theresa May has pledged to give tenants access to the government’s new rogue landlord database after a Guardian and ITV News investigation revealed that not a single name had been entered into the system in more than six months since its launch – and that even when landlords’ names were listed, the public would not be allowed to see them.’
The Guardian, 24th October 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The legislation designed to catch rogue landlords is vast and very complex. Landlords can be prosecuted under various pieces of law, including the Housing Act (2004), the Protection from Eviction Act (1977), the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) and Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order (2005). All of that legislation creates a confusing landscape. It can be difficult to work out how it all fits together, and even within individual acts there are loopholes.’
The Guardian, 23rd October 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A human rights organisation is taking the national provider of legal aid to court because it is refusing to help rough sleepers challenge councils over the use of potentially unlawful powers to move them on.’
The Guardian, 23rd October 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A judge has refused to grant a campaign group permission to bring a judicial review challenge over a district council’s decision to sell a cattle market to a supermarket chain.’
Local Government Lawyer, 19th October 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A legal challenge brought by the Public Interest Law Unit (PILU) and Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth (HASL) has forced Southwark Council to change the definition it uses for ‘overcrowding’, it has been claimed.’
Local Government Lawyer, October 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court will next week hear a dispute between two London councils and Transport of London (TfL) over the transfer of highways in the capital.’
Local Government Lawyer, 18th October 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘On Saturday, the Times reported: ‘Father beats legal bid to silence him over autistic girl in hospital “cell” ‘ [paywall]. Social affairs editor, Greg Hirst, reported that Jeremy (who is not using his surname publicly) succeeded in contesting an application by Walsall Metropolitan County Borough Council for an injunction to stop his social media campaign that is drawing attention to the plight of his 17-year-old-daughter.’
Transparency Project, 16th October 2018
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
‘Folkestone & Hythe District Council faces its second judicial review in a year over a dispute concerning a proposed holiday park.’
Local Government Lawyer, 15th October 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Coventry City Council has won a Court of Appeal case in the latest round of a four-year long litigation saga over the city’s sports stadium the Ricoh Arena.’
Local Government Lawyer, 15th October 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Nottingham City Council has lost a Supreme Court case over whether it was right to prohibit the use of two attics as bedrooms.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th October 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A woman who had become homeless while imprisoned for terrorism offences did not have her human rights breached by the London Borough of Brent in its decisions on housing her and her children, the High Court has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th October 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Leader of Thurrock Council is to call on his fellow councillors to back a judicial review challenge over the planned Lower Thames Crossing.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th October 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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