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Anthony Gold are delighted to be sponsoring the 17th Legal Aid Practitioners Group Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards. There are 12 awards in total including Children's Rights, Public Law, Mental...

Landlords and agents will be seeing the news this morning saying that the Right to Rent has been held by the High Court to be in breach of the Human Rights Act. The RLA (of which I am the policy direc...

In a major judgment, the Government’s ‘Right to Rent’ scheme, which forces landlords to check potential tenants’ immigration status, has been declared to be incompatible with the Human Rights...

The judgment in Berrisford v Mexfield [2011] UKSC 52 should have shaken up housing co-operatives, but almost eight years on it seems that many are yet to change their tenancy agreements. The Supre...

Commonly, building disputes reach a position where the building owner considers it is no longer possible to let the builder return to their property to carry out any more work, in the light of past ev...

Will the government reform leasehold ownership in 2019 ? In 2017 the Ministry of Housing issued a white paper setting out the government’s plans to reform the housing market. The issue of extendi...

Large confiscation orders made against landlords under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 have been attracting a lot of media attention. Recent confiscation orders obtained by prosecutors have ranged from...

On 20 December 2018, the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill became an Act by being given royal assent. The Act will come into force in March 2019. For the first time, all tenants, private and s...