I finally got around to reading my monthly issue of Legal Action Magazine today, to find that it is the 25th anniversary of the splendid ‘Recent Developments in Housing law’ series. There is an anniversary article on page 8 by John Gallagher, principal solicitor at Shelter, which is fascinating. Describing how the young Nic Madge…
My talk went well at the Landlord & Buy to Let Show today so I decided to treat myself to a cab for part of my journey across London. Cabbies however are not what they were: Me: Hello, can you take me to the nearest Central line underground station please? Cabbie: Sorry love, no idea…
Like many people who blog, I am a great admirer and reader of Problogger, written by Australian Darren Rowse. He has issued a 7 link challenge on his blog today. As it might be quite interesting for readers, here are my seven links: 1. My First Post. This is called My first posting and was…
Just a short post to let you know that you can now read the Landlord Law Blog on your mobile phone! We are using a service called Mippin (which I wrote about on my Solicitors Online Blog here). To get the blog on your phone you just put in the url www.landlordlawblog.co.uk and you will…
The HMO regulations and mandatory licensing was introduced a few years ago now (April 2006) so Councils have had a while to get used to it. It looks like we are beginning to see more Local Authorities applying for extra licensing, for example the HMO licensing in Cathays Ward in Cardiff which I posted on…
The nice people at Apple having sent me an email to say that they were having a ‘Grand Opening’ of their new store in Chapelfield (a shopping mall in Norwich) this morning, I decided to pop along to see. (Having invested in my wonderful Macbook in January). I got there at just a few minutes…
I was rather startled to learn today, via one of my feeds and reports, that Amazon appear to be selling a monthly subscription to this blog on Kindle for $1.99 per month! Can they do this without asking me first? It seems a bit of a nerve. Mind you, the blog will not be of…
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