Past events

Webinar: EU Settlement Scheme – local authority duties to children
This webinar will look at the responsibilities of local authorities to help children and young people secure settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme.

Webinar: EU Settlement Scheme applications for people who lack mental capacity to apply
This webinar will focus on issues to consider when people who need to make an EU Settlement Scheme application lack (or may lack) the mental capacity to apply for themselves.

Webinar: Overview of the EU Settlement Scheme (aimed at lawyers)
As well as providing an overview of the EU Settlement scheme, and helping you to identify the people who need to apply, this session will outline local authorities’ duties to support young people and vulnerable adults to apply, and provide an update following recent changes to the immigration rules.

Webinar: preparing evidence for EU Settlement Scheme applications – tricky cases
This webinar will help you support young people to gather the evidence they need for EU settlement scheme applications, including evidence of ID and nationality, residence in the UK, and, where necessary, family relationships. We will concentrate, in particular, on alternative forms of evidence that can be used in difficult cases.

Webinar: Introduction to the EU Settlement Scheme
Eleanor Sibley, together with the AIRE Centre and Centrepoint, will deliver a free training webinar on the EU Settlement scheme for frontline workers.

Webinar: Does the tenant have to pay?
With landlord and tenant proceedings halted for 6 months, concessions will have been informally agreed in haste during lockdown. With restrictions on proceedings due to be lifted, the fallout from these changes and agreements will become a pressing issue. In this webinar, David Brounger, Miriam Shalom and Emma Godfrey discuss some of the practicalities for commercial landlords.

Webinar: Ready, set, go! The impact of Practice Direction 51 Z and s82 Coronavirus Act on possession and forfeiture claims by commercial landlords
Legislative changes to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic have affected landlords' ability to recover rent and other sums under commercial lease agreements. Jonathan Pennington Legh, Sarah Salmon and Alistair Cantor discuss ways forward for commercial landlords now those restrictions have been lifted.

Webinar: EU Settlement Scheme and local authorities’ duties -EEA nationals living in the UK
Eleanor Sibley and Anna Dannreuther consider who can apply for EU settlement and pre-settlement, consequences of getting or failing to secure status, and the steps local authorities should take to support looked after children, care leavers and vulnerable adults to apply for EU settlement or pre-settlement by the deadline of 30 June 2021.

Webinar: Possession claims: they think it’s all over … is it now?
Join Mark Baumohl, Sarah Salmon and Christopher McCarthy for an update on notice requirements, existing, issued and pending possession claims in the county court.

Webinar: Housing law developments during Covid-19 pandemic and emerging trends
Mark Baumohl and Christopher McCarthy discuss the Covid-19 pandemic's impact on housing law and what advisers should consider going forward. They will focus particularly on recent case law and possible future battlegrounds in possession claims and homelessness cases - developments during lockdown and likely arguments to arise post lockdown.
