Our reviewer Giles Peaker (of Anthony Gold solicitors) should be pretty knowledgeable now on housing allocation and homelessness law, as he previously reviewed Andrew Arden’s book on the same subject. What did he make of this one?
Housing Allocation and Homelessness: Law and Practice
This is the second edition of this book, written by Jan Luba [...]
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Housing Allocation and Homelessness: Law and Practice (Second Edition) by Jan Luba and Liz Davies
Homelessness and Allocations, 8th Edition by Andrew Arden QC, Emily Orme and Toby Vanhagen
I am pleased to introduce a review of this classic book from LAG, from Giles Peaker of Anthony Gold.
Homelessness and Allocations. 8th Edition
This may not be a book of much use to private landlords, although a glance between its covers would rapidly disabuse some of their conviction that ‘the Council’ will automatically help tenants that [...]
Tenancy deposit arbitration – help for landlords
Tenancy deposit arbitration or ADR – help at last!
Are you a landlord? Have you had a dispute over a tenancy deposit go to arbitration? Did you lose when you felt you ought to have won? If so you are no longer alone. Tom Deritt of ADR Solutions, who contacted me recently, is [...]
Repairs, tenants rights by Jan Luba, Deidre Forster & Beatrice Prevatt
I am really pleased to be able to do a review of this well known and respected legal text book on disrepair and tenants rights. It has been a long time coming as the last edition was 1999! As the introduction acknowledges, the world of housing disrepair was a very different place then.
In fact the [...]
Great articles in the current issue of Roof – the housing magazine from Shelter
Two years ago I did a review of Roof Magazine on my Landlord Law site, where I said how good it was. I have just finished reading the January / February 2010 issue, and have decided I need to write about it again. It really is excellent, this issue in particular. For [...]
Housing Law Handbook, a practical guide – by Stephen Cottle and others
It is not often realised by those outside the profession, that the Law Society produce some excellent handbooks on all sorts of legal topics. This book is a good example.
This book is really intended for housing law practitioners, essentially those looking after landlords and tenants in the social housing sector – mostly local authority housing, [...]
Book Review – Enforcement of a Judgement, by Claire Sandbrook
I have always been a great admirer of Claire Sandbrook, and the way she has developed and built up Shergroup, her enforcement business (not a traditionally female friendly area of practice). As you would expect her book, now in its 10th edition, is authoratative and thorough.
Published by Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell, this is a practitioner [...]
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