When will it come in? The Renters Reform Bill is now in its final stages before becoming law. The Bill will likely come into force before the General Election as: A HUGE number of new Statutory Duties Section 96 – “Enforcement by local housing authorities: general duty” imposes statutory duties Read more…
Among several recent precedents handed down by the Upper Tribunal and Court of Appeal in the last five weeks, none is as impactful as Leicester CC v Morjaria. To be clear, as it stands, most local authority Financial Penalty policies will now either be defective or be strongly arguable as Read more…
There is only one sentence in the Renters Reform Bill draft where emphasis has been added: Clause 58(1) – It is the duty of every local housing authority to enforce the landlord legislation in itsarea.It imposes a duty on local authorities that will lead to a fifteen-fold increase in the Read more…
Rent Repayment Orders are very new legislation. There are only a few short sections of the Housing And Planning Act 2016 that detail the entirety of how they operate. Consequently, there are a significant number of precedents that have drastically affected how this new legislation is interpreted by the Tribunal. Read more…
Without joined-up working, the Rogue landlord slip through the net by Al Mcclenahan Every month or so, I get the privilege of attending a cross-agency meeting run by Tower Hamlets council. People who are doing very similar work, but often never speak to each other, are all brought together to Read more…