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Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose

I did my Q&A this morning, something I do every other Sunday morning, and which see I wrote about nearly a year ago on this blog. I always get far more questions than the 10 that get answered (I had 32 today I think) and the same old questions still keep cropping up.
For example, [...]

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Help for tenants with tenancy deposit protection claims

I read a news report recently which said that about 97% of all landlords holding deposits have not yet joined one of the government authorised tenancy deposit schemes. Although one reason for this surprisingly high figure may be that many landlords have not needed to join a scheme yet, it is still disgraceful. [...]

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Have you time for the Times?

I was sitting at my computer about three weeks ago, wondering how I was going to fit everything into my day, when I was rung up by a journalist from The Times.
“I’m doing a feature on online sources of information for Landlords” he said (“goody, goody” I thought) “and I would like to mention your [...]

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Doing the Q&A

I did my Q&A this morning. This is something I have been doing for years – ever since my very first Landlord-Law site, I have (more or less every 14 days) answered ten questions emailed to me by readers and put them online.
It is surprising how consistent the types of questions are. Some [...]

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Thank you Richard Susskind

I was thrilled and honoured today when I opened the Times legal supplement, to see that Richard Susskind had written about my web-site www.landlordlaw.co.uk and this blog in his regular column in the Times, available here on the internet.
For those who have not heard of him, Richard Susskind is an academic and expert on [...]

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Putting audio files on Landlord-Law

I think it was an article in the excellent Internet Newsletter, from Delia Venables which first gave me the idea to put sound files on Landlord-Law. I was also inspired by the podcasts on the i-legal.info site from solicitors Fisher Jones Greenwood, plus of course the pioneering work done by Justin Patten (although [...]

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Why not tell the Law Commission what you think about the courts?

Further to my earlier post on tbe Law Commission’s issues paper and consultation on housing dispute resolution, I have now placed an answerform online to allow members of the public to respond easily.
So rather than having to read a ginormous paper, and then painfully draft your anwers with paper and pen, all you need to [...]

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The Landlord Law Blog from Tessa Shepperson

Tessa is an English solicitor who specialises in residential landlord and tenant law.

Legal Services

Tessa's legal services are provided via her online service Landlord Law. This service is provided as part of Tessa's legal practice TJ Shepperson, which is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority No 78852.

Note that any readers wishing to instruct Tessa professionally to do legal work, should do this via the Landlord Law service. Tessa's one-to-one legal work is now limited to the fixed fee services provided exclusively to Landlord Law annual members, plus Tessa also has a separate Lodger Landlord web-site with guidance for people taking in lodgers.

Disclaimer

The purpose of this blog is to provide information, comment and discussion. Although Tessa, or guest bloggers, may from time to time, give helpful comments to readers' questions, these can only be based on the information given by the reader in his or her comment, which may not contain all material facts. Any comments or suggestions provided by Tessa or any guest bloggers should not therefore be relied upon as a substitute for legal advice from a qualified lawyer regarding any actual legal issue or dispute.

Nothing on this website should be construed as legal advice or perceived as creating a solicitor-client relationship.

Guest bloggers

Please note that any opinion expressed by a guest blogger is his or hers alone, and does not necessarily reflect the views of Tessa Shepperson, or the other writers on this blog.

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