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Nearly Legal: Well, that’s embarrassing

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:01:07 +0000

You know how when you search for something that isn’t there on NL, it comes up with that (quite annoying) “well, that’s embarrassing” logo? Well, I searched last night for Vilvarasa v Harrow LBC [2010] EWCA Civ 1278 but couldn’t find it. Then, it struck me that maybe it was embarrassing and I’d said I’d do it back in November when it came out (in response to one of NL or the Chief’s lists that they regularly produce of what’s interesting) but hadn’t don

Nearly Legal: x’=γ(x-vt)*

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:30:28 +0000

Without further ado, a hodge-podge of Equality and Human Rights updates.

Nearly Legal: Grrrr

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:37:05 +0000

First of all, a guilty secret: I love Silk, the BBC show. It makes my Tuesday nights. It is completely and utterly implausible but take it for what it is – fiction and drama – and it’s a great show. After a late Supper, my partner called me and said there was another programme which I must watch on BBC. So I sat and shouted at “Neighbourhood watched” – a title which pretty much sums up much of the literature on the governance of social housing. It’s a real-life documentary, apparently a series, following housing officers of two or three PRPs tr

Nearly Legal: A Return to Parliament Square

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:45:06 +0000

The Mayor of London (Greater London Authority) v Haw & Ors [2011] EWHC 585 (QB)

The Property Investment Project: Do ‘Tenant References’ Provided By Letting Agents Actually Mean Anything?

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:57:27 +0000

Over the years I’ve received several letting agents contact me to get references for either current or previous tenants of mine. You know, just so they can make sure their not creating...

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Nearly Legal: Set Aside or Appeal, or both?

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:04:36 +0000

Bank of Scotland v Pereira & Pain & Pain [2011] EWCA Civ 241

Nearly Legal: On the naughty step: Bait and Switch

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:18:25 +0000

I don’t read the Daily Telegraph. Frankly I’ve failed to see the point since it stopped featuring details of the salacious trial of the day as a regular fixture on page 3, because the rest of it was preposterous blimpish nonsense, mainly full of regret that Britain ever came off the gold standard. I was dimly aware that it had a re-design some years ago and was trying to be hip, which is like Tunbridge Wells re-branding itself as Barcelona, or the journalistic equivalent of dad-dancing.

Nearly Legal: The Schleswig-Holstein Question

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:14:41 +0000

As Lord Palmerstone might have said: “Only three people have ever really understood this eligibility business – the Prince Consort, who is dead – a German professor, who has gone mad – and I, who have forgotten all about it.” That, frankly, sums up my (and, I suspect, your*) view of eligibility and Part 7, Housing Act 1996.

Nearly Legal: Two bites of the cherry?

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:58:43 +0000

The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has, in Earl Cadogan v Cadogan Square Properties Ltd [2011] UKUT 68 (LC), had to grapple with two significant procedural questions involving the LVT and enfranchisement.

Nearly Legal: A (further) symbolic consultation

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:25:29 +0000

Readers of my previous notes of the “consultation” exercises undertaken by the coalition government will readily appreciate that I am not the best person to write about a further symbolic consultation, being lead by DCLG, on what it terms “burdens” (indeed, such is the normalised use of this expression that the email address to respond to this consultation is pejoratively: burdens@communities.gsi.gov.uk) as part of the “direction of travel” to decentralis