Something useful for a change

Stumbled upon THIS quite handy link for Court Desk advisers and other housing bods

It's a little old but helpful I reckon.

Are subprime solicitors very stupid?

Every Monday morning I help run our CABx Court Desk scheme.

Every week I seem to have a mortgage possession case in which there is plenty of equity in the property that involves me making an offer of repayment that would clear the arrears in about 3 to 5 years where on average there is about 20 odd years remaining on the term as the defendant would prefer to clear them much sooner than the whole of the term.

However every week having put this reasonable offer to the claimant's representative the rep will call the claimant's Legal Department and some cretin will say the offer is unacceptable as they want the arrears cleared in a year or two. WHY! WHY! WHY do they do this? Have they never ever heard of Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society v Norgan [1996]. Are they just being deliberately obnoxious and / or stupid or am I missing something?

I've never ever seen a Judge agree with the claimant in respect to the repayment of the arrears so why do claimant's solicitors persist?

Gas, we're all doomed

Crapita are furthering world domination with the announcement that they are to replace CORGI from 1st April 2009.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/gas/domestic/bidder.htm


thanks to red40 at LLzone.


Must resist bribery innuendo...

Another Biggy, Lewisham v Malcolm

Looks like Nearly is in for no sleep tonight!

Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Lewisham (Appellants) v Malcolm (Respondent)

Very very briefly as I'm at work and have only read some parts as it's a very lengthy judgement, it appears Lewisham's appeal has been upheld.

Very interesting case I think, having suffered from a disability myself. A lot to read after the footy ;)

Also have to love a case where a Lord (LORD SCOTT OF FOSCOTE) says

'The problem, I repeat, was the dog'


Am pondering whether McCann (if it had been out) could have helped Macolm as he was back living in the property.

Apologies for the editing. I thought I had some grasp of what constitutes indirect discrimination. Now I realise I have none and look forward to reading some sort of an 'idiots guide to discrimination' :)

Until it's published I shall continue to stare at 35 in the hope that I can make sense of it. Perhaps I will dream of blind people having to leave their dogs outside the pub. What happens if he can't leave it outside the pub because it's really cold and the dog will die of hypothermia? Should the blind person tell the pub owner he's blind and needs his dog and that his dog will die of hypothermia if left outside?

Oh, oh they are, I think! For now...

R (Weaver) v London & Quadrant Housing Trust
[2008] EWCA 1377 (Admin), 24 June 2008,

Taken from eflash 308 at Arden Chambers.

'The Administrative Court has held that a registered social landlord was a public authority for the purposes of the Human Rights Act 1998 in respect of the management and allocation of its housing stock (including the termination of a tenancy) and accordingly also amenable to judicial review on conventional public law grounds'

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2008/1377.html

Hopefully L and Q might think a bit more and dust off their Housing Corporation's guidance 02/07 before they just throw ground 8's at people.

Am sure Nearly will be busy this evening.

Happy birthday Garden Court bulletins!

Garden Courts 100th Housing bulletins are 100 today. Happy birthday Mr Bulletin.

Lots of interesting stuff (for housing nerds), including more on the are they or aren't they Public bodies and RSLs debate. As seems commonplace in housing law no one really has a clue.

Website help needed!

I've been thinking about making a little housing resource web page. Just a place with handy links to all sorts of different websites and also a place with links to different court cases which I would find extremely handy when doing reviews etc. It would also be a place where I could 'store' the answers to weird and wonderful problems that some clients seem to have so I can quickly refer to them again if necessary (obviously just the generally gist of the problem not the actual client!)

I've been trawling through website editors and free hosting programmes for about the last 6 hours and it's doing my head in.

I'd like an idiot proof editor where I can make my own page and then easily upload it so that I can view it as a web page. I don't really want a cool web address and I don't mind an advert or two if necessary. I don't mind paying a few pounds a month if I get something that even I can use.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Pretty please!