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July 7, 2020

Success for Sarah Salmon and Christopher McCarthy in the Court of Appeal – Jarvis v Evans – landlord licensing in Wales

The Court of Appeal has held that a section 8, Housing Act 1988 notice served by a landlord is a “notice to terminate a tenancy” and if such a notice is served by a landlord who is unlicensed in Wales, it is invalid.

Sarah Salmon and Christopher McCarthy acted pro bono for the successful tenants instructed by Hugh James.

June 24, 2020

Christine Cooper defends local authority in unusual judicial review brought on behalf of child with tracheostomy

The claimant argued that the local authority had a freestanding power to provide healthcare under s. 1 of the Localism Act 2011. The local authority argued it was able to provide healthcare under s. 75 of the NHS Act 2006 in partnership with the NHS and could not exercise the general power in s. 1 of the 2011 Act to circumvent the existing statutory scheme.