Court allowed Council to offset legal costs from tenant’s rent arrears
3 March 2025
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24 January 2025
Simon Kiely, a Partner in Sharpe Pritchard’s Dispute Resolution team, acted for Lewes District Council in prosecuting national building materials supplier Travis Perkins. The prosecution came about for offences under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (the Act) following a fatal accident involving wood falling from one of their delivery vehicles. At…
Read more10 January 2024
In a recent blog (please see here), we examined a judgment of the Administrative Court regarding the approach – in the context of judicial review litigation – to redactions of the identities of officials in disclosed documents. As noted in that blog, the Court, in an authoritative judgment, made clear its view that, in general,…
Read more7 September 2023
The Administrative Court Guide (the “Guide”) is an important resource for judicial review practitioners. Whilst the Guide does not have the force of law, it is “essential reading for all those who practice in the Administrative Court” (R (DVP) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 606 (Admin) [8]). Accordingly, all those…
Read more27 June 2023
In the case of Waltham Forest LBC v Hussain [2023] EWCA Civ 733, the Court of Appeal has held that when a First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) (“the FTT”) hears an appeal against a decision under the Housing Act 2004 as a ‘rehearing’, the FTT must consider whether the authority’s decision was wrong by reference to…
Read more23 June 2023
Case Summary Background Mr Rahman is the owner of a flat in Waltham Forest which has been let out to the same tenant since May 2015. The property is within an area of Waltham Forest where there have been two selective licensing schemes in operation under Part 3 of the Housing Act 2004; the first…
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