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  • Reactivation Notice: Pursuant to Practice Direction 55C

    Inbrief

    07 August 2020

    Landlords wishing to proceed with possession action issued before 3 August 2020 and which has been stayed automatically by CPR55.29 must file and serve a written notice (a “reactivation notice”) confirming that they wish the case to be listed, relisted, heard or referred.

  • Electrical Safety in the Residential Private Rented Sector

    01 April 2020

    The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 (the “Regulations”) are coming into force on 1 June 2020 and will apply to all new specified tenancies commencing on or after 1 July 2020 and all existing specified tenancies from 1 April 2021 in England.

  • COVID-19 and protection from eviction of residential tenants

    25 March 2020

  • Coronavirus – landlord's obligations to carry out annual gas safety inspections

    24 March 2020

    In these unprecedented times we have advised a number of landlords about their obligations to tenants and particularly in respect of the obligation on all residential landlords to carry out annual gas safety inspections in accordance with the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 when we should all be social distancing.

  • Trespassers will be prosecuted.....or will they?

    Inbrief

    19 December 2018

    Trespassers or “squatters” can present major issues for owners of commercial land and buildings.

  • Permission to issue a warrant for possession is no longer required in rent arrears cases

    27 September 2018

    The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2018 (SI 2018/975) come into force from 1 October 2018 so that a writ or warrant for possession may be issued without the court’s permission where there has been non-compliance with an order suspending possession on payment of money.

  • The importance of gas safety

    19 September 2018

    On 6 April 2018, the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 were amended with the new regulations allowing ‘flexibility’ for landlords when carrying out annual gas safety inspections. It’s important to note that these amendments do not change or relax a landlord’s obligations to carry out an annual gas safety inspection. They simply allow for the annual inspection to be carried out within a two month period prior to the expiry of the existing certificate, whilst retaining the existing expiry date.

  • Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 - The Basics

    Inbrief

    27 June 2017

    Part II of the 1954 Act is perhaps the most important legislation governing commercial premises. The provisions of Part II of the Act were substantially amended with effect from 1st June 2004 and did away with many of the tactical manoeuvres that were available under the old regime.

  • Right to Rent immigration checks: increasing pressure on the property rental market

    Press

    30 May 2017

    Joanna Hunt has written an article for 24housing which discusses the Government's 'right to rent' checks and their increasing pressure on the rental market.

  • Further update on warrants following suspended orders

    22 December 2016

  • Degrees of separation

    Press

    13 December 2013

    Leo Steven's recent article in Inside Housing discusses the segregation between affordable housing and homes to be sold or rented at market rates.

  • What you need to know about the new Social Housing Fraud Act

    Press

    15 October 2013

    In an article written for The Guardian's Housing Network, Paul Hayes discusses key aspects of the new act as well as raising questions that the act, designed to crack down on the estimates 100,000 social housing properties subject to fraud, leaves unanswered.

  • The continued rise of E-cigarettes

    Press

    08 September 2012

    Lewis Silkin discusses the problems advertisers will face when marketing e-cigarettes in an article for the Huffington Post.

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