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Genevieve Screeche-Powell acted for the local authority that successfully defended a s. 204 Housing Act 1996 appeal brought by a homeless applicant. This is the 1st time that the Court of Appeal has had to consider the nature and impact of the s. 189A Housing Act duties on the lawful performance of the s.195 prevention duty in section 204 appeal proceedings.

Aristide Hoang-Brown represented a mother who had been the victim of domestic abuse in various applications concerning her 2 children. He secured an order for the children to have no contact with the father, a s.91(14) order preventing the father making further applications without court permission and a specific issue order permitting the mother to exercise parental responsibility unilaterally.

Christopher Stirling will speak at the Jersey International Family Law Conference  sponsored by Corbett le Quesne on Friday 3 October. The theme of the conference is non-court dispute resolution. He will discuss the use of the civil mediation model in resolving family finance disputes.

Jonathan Pennington Legh represented the successful applicant, resisting set aside and permission to appeal in residential property proceedings. The respondent sought to challenge the decision on the grounds that he lacked capacity. The Tribunal refused both the application to set aside and the second respondent’s request for permission to appeal.

Genevieve Screeche-Powell led by Kelvin Rutledge KC acted for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to successfully resist an appeal about the local authority’s use of a database of homeless applicants awaiting transfer to alternative temporary accommodation. The appellant, Ms Begum had claimed that the system of allocating temporary accommodation indirectly discriminated against women.