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Postponed possession order following drug convictions

  • Cobbetts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 24 2008

The housing team recently acted on behalf of a Midlands-based local authority in bringing a possession claim against a 26-year-old man following convictions related to possession of drugs and complaints of anti-social behaviour

Help, the market's falling

  • DMH Stallard LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 4 2009

These are worrying times for everyone but, for executors, the fall in house prices and the reduction in investment values in general are particularly vexing developments

Case study 2 ASBO: Lambeth LBC -v- Assing

  • Cobbetts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 20 2007

In this case, Mr Assing had been a secure tenant of a flat for nine years

No beneficial interest

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 30 2007

The defendant purchased a property in her name for the parties to live in together

Who owns what share of the home?

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 31 2007

In Stack v Dowden, the House of Lords handed down a detailed judgement setting out the rights of ownership of Mr Stack and Ms Dowden in relation to their marital home following the breakdown of their marriage

Consultation on parenting orders and parenting contracts

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 30 2007

The Government is currently consulting on draft guidance to local authorities (LAs) and registered social landlords (RSLs) on the use of parenting orders and parenting contracts

Possession orders: Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council v Hensley

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 30 2007

In this Court of Appeal case, the local authority had issued a possession order against a tenant who had been convicted of being knowingly concerned in the cultivation of cannabis

Fairness demands couple gain house

  • DMH Stallard LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 25 2009

It is common for families to dispute agreements made relating to property

Husband's covert affair means wife keeps house

  • DMH Stallard LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 4 2010

When a wife agrees to allow the family home to be used as security for her husband's debts, the legal situation is normally clear and the creditor can rely on her consent in order to take possession

ASBI permitted as behaviour was 'housing-related'

  • DMH Stallard LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • January 13 2010

In a recent case, a man who was banned from entering the village in which he had previously lived, after successive acts of anti-social behaviour, has lost his appeal against the imposition of an anti-social behaviour injunction (ASBI