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April 22, 2015

Advising a client on the size of their potential share in a property acquired solely in one person’s name is uncertain by its nature, warns Christopher Stirling

Christopher Stirling

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July 7, 2020

Pro bono success for Sarah Salmon and Christopher McCarthy in Court of Appeal: Jarvis v Evans – landlord licensing in Wales

This case was the first to see the provisions of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 before the higher courts and will have substantial implications for both private landlords and tenants in Wales. The Court of Appeal 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.

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.