The court determined a child (M) to be habitually resident in England and Wales and that the English court had jurisdiction regarding matters pertaining to parental responsibility.
Jared Norman considers the case of Livewest Homes Limited v Bamber [2019] EWCA Civ 1174. Section 21 has become a minefield for landlords who let properties under assured shorthold tenancies. The Livewest case is of particular relevance to social landlords who have entered into fixed term tenancies of more than two years and/or where they are operating a break clause.
Social landlords subject to the public sector equality act duty can take some comfort in the fact that the Court of Appeal has dismissed a second appeal against a possession order notwithstanding a breach of the PSED.
Applications for authorisation of care plans, inter alia, for deprivation of liberty [‘DoL’] of restricted patients under ‘Hospital Orders’.
The Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in the case of Yavuz Yildiz v London Borough of Hackney on 24 July 2019, a case which examined the interaction between section 83(1) and Ground 15A of the Housing Act 1985.
Urgent application by the treating Trust to permit treatment in respect a 16-year old girl, B, refusing treatment.
Separation is a traumatic time for most people. On top of the upheaval, you’re unlikely to want to pay tax when you divide up the assets if you don’t have to.
Judgment in Queen's Bench Division providing international family lawyers with a meticulous overview on establishing forum.
Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 provides that local authorities are under a full duty to secure accommodation to a person found homeless, if certain conditions are satisfied, one of which is that they are not satisfied that she “became homeless intentionally”.
A mother’s unsuccessful appeal against an order for the summary return of a child to Israel.