housing law

This page contains links to a number of articles and lecture notes on housing law which I have written.

The links to the "possession" files are mainly to lecture notes on possession claims which I have written for the Judicial Studies Board.  They deal with secure tenancies, introductory and demoted tenancies, assured tenancies, assured shorthold tenancies, mortgages and procedure as contained in Civil Procedure Rules Part 55.    Possession - fixed costs and ASBOs in county courts provide links to articles published in the Association of District Judges Law Bulletin.

assured shorthold is an article on Housing Act 1988 s21 and possession claims against assured shorthold tenants. tenancy deposits contains a summary of all the cases relating to tenancy deposits and Housing Act 2004 of which I am aware.  mortgage arrears sale considers the law when borrowers seek time in court to sell mortgaged premises.

ECHR and housing provides links to a series of articles published in the Journal of Housing Law, under the title, Housing and Human Rights - lessons from StrasbourgArt 8 - after Doherty is a link to an article entitled Article 8: La Lutta Continua? published at [2009] JHL 43.considering cases on Article 8 and advocating a Protocol to deal with such possession claims.  To subscribe to the Journal of Housing Law, go to www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk

Hearing Housing Cases is a link to an article published in the Journal of Housing Law about the appropriate forum for the determination of housing cases. 

housing law reform is an article published in The Times advocating housing law reform.

Possession CD-ROM and Who is Jesus Garcia? provide links to two articles published in the Judicial Studies Board Journal about the provision of housing law resources for judges by distance learning.

There is a spearate page for access to Recent Developments in Housing Law articles, published monthly in the journal Legal Action.