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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...

Many legal disputes fall neatly in one category such as civil, family or criminal law. After completing their training most modern-day lawyers, and this includes judges, tend to focus on one main area...

An interview by Lexis Nexis with Debra Wilson, Partner in our Housing department.  Environment analysis: As part of a series of environmental analyses preceding the 26th UN Climate Change Conferen...

In 2015 the Deregulation Act made significant changes to the section 21 ‘no-fault’ eviction procedure that applies to assured shorthold tenancies (ASTs) in England. For the first time landlords’...

Before purchasing a leasehold property it is generally a good idea to check some important issues first. How many years are left on the Lease?  This is one of the most important things to check...

A rent repayment order is an order made by the First-tier Tribunal requiring a landlord to pay back up to one year’s rent. Tenants (or local authorities where a tenant has received Universal Credit...

The pandemic has affected the private rented sector (PRS) in many ways. In the last 14 months we have seen multiple changes to the law to protect renters during this difficult period including banning...

On Thursday 22 April, leading counsel for the Grenfell Tower Inquiry read out some key extracts from the witness statements of our client, Shahid [Shah] Ahmed. The Inquiry heard eloquent and powerf...