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Introduction The Housing and Planning Act 2016 introduced the remedy of rent repayment orders enabling tenants and local authorities to seek repayment of rent in cases where the landlord committed...

The Property Chamber’s procedural rules allow the Tribunal to decide cases without holding a hearing if the parties to the case have consented to this. The Tribunal comes to a decision on the basis...

Introduction A tenant can make an application to the First- tier Tribunal Property Chamber (Residential Property) (“the Tribunal”) for the repayment of rent. The order can be sought if the Pro...

Welcome to Rent Repayment Order Week This week the Housing Team at Anthony Gold are focussing on one of the most important recent developments in the law for landlords and tenants: rent repayment o...

In March 2020, a stay on possession claims was introduced protecting tenants temporarily from possession proceedings. The stay was lifted on the 20 September 2020 allowing landlords to commence posses...

The stay on Possession claims was initially introduced in March 2020 by way of Practice Direction 51Z. The stay was brought in to provide protection to tenants and stop landlords from evicting tenants...

A new Practice Direction 55C is being introduced in order to give new rules relating to the resumption of possession proceedings that have been stayed due to the pandemic. The Practice Direction comes...

The Electrical Safety Standards in Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 (“the Regulations”) are now in force, and from 1 July they started to apply to private rented tenancies in Engla...