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The Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in the case of Jarvis v Evans & Evans (B5/2019/2258) on Tuesday 7 July 2020. The Court ruled unanimously that serving a notice under s.8 Housing Act 19...

On the 26 March 2019, the Master of the Rolls and the Lord Chancellor introduced a new Practice Direction 51Z(PD)to complement the emergency provisions contained in the Coronavirus Act 2020.The Practi...

Many tenants in the private rented sector, particularly students who have other accommodation outside of term-time, are asking landlords whether they can terminate their tenancies early in response to...

The year 2019 has kept housing lawyers busy and entertained not only with all the political upheaval in relation to Brexit but also with legislative changes and court decisions which will have an impa...

Earlier this year, the Government announced its proposals to end “no fault evictions” by abolishing the right for landlord to serve notice under section 21 of the Housing Act 1988.  It launched a...

The Data Protection Act 2018 (‘the Act’) came into force on the 25 May 2018. It incorporates the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) into UK’s legislation. The Act controls how personal...

The general principle of ‘caveat emptor’ also known as ‘buyer beware’ has changed over time in the housing sector with statute and regulations intervening to protect vulnerable tenants from th...