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Alex McMahon

Case Reiterates Local Authorities should follow Allocation Scheme

R (on the application of Kukhtyak) -v- London Borough of Hounslow [2023] EWHC 2914 (Admin) This sad case concerned an elderly couple...

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Tom McHale

Supreme Court sets High Threshold for Local Authorities...

Judgment was handed down on 28 November 2023 by the Supreme Court in an important case regarding the main housing duty. The...

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Mandy Groves

Mandy is a solicitor in the Housing and Social Care department. After having received her training from and qualifying at...

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Muna Adam

Gatekept homeless teenager accommodated by local housing authority

Miss X, a 17 year old whose details are anonymised to protect her privacy, left her family home in March 2022 following...

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Muna Adam

Homelessness case successfully settled for elderly disabled lady

Ms X, whose details are anonymised to protect her privacy, had been living in a privately rented one-bedroom flat for...

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Adele Pinkett

Disrepair Claim for Single Father

Background to the Claim Osbornes Law represented a private tenant, a single father living with his young son in their...

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Adele Pinkett

Client successfully rehoused following refusal by local authority

Background to the case Osbornes Law represented a client who had been found intentionally homeless by his local authority. He...

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Sean Hughes

Client rehoused and £16,000 arrears cleared

Osbornes Law were instructed to assist a client to suspend a warrant for possession. The client had fallen into arrears...

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Samuel O’Flaherty

Victory for Homeless Victim

Mr X, whose details are anonymised to protect his privacy, fled his home country due to severe persecution from the...

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William Ford

Successful homelessness judicial review case against Redbridge Council

This matter involved a claim in the High Court for judicial review against Redbridge Council for failure to comply with...

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