Category: Housing and Social Welfare Blog

First Time Buyer’s Guide to buying a property

Nov 2019

First Time Buyer’s Guide to buying a property

If you are a first-time buyer and wondering what you need to buy a house or flat, this guide will give you some handy tips, and breaks…

Daveena Seepaul

Nov 2019

Lawyers pull punches over election manifestos

Oct 2019

Reducing the Fire Risk in Apartment Blocks

“The fire which destroyed Grenfell Tower in June 2017 was one of the UK’s worst modern disasters.” (BBC, 18th June 2018). In January 2019, a Fire Risk…

Kavita Rana

Oct 2019

Chambers & Partners 2020

Court of Protection What the team is known for Respected team frequently instructed by the Official Solicitor to act in high-profile and complex health and welfare cases….

Sep 2019

Disabled refugee still homeless after brutal street attack

A disabled refugee is still living in unsuitable accommodation, more than a year after he was brutally attacked in the street. Atif al-Sharif, a Sudanese national who fled…

Aug 2019

Barking fire: social tenants told to return despite safety fears

Residents of east London flats say they are being forced back before safety assessments.

Aug 2019

Lawyer in the news

Simon Mullings, Senior Case Worker in Community Law.

Jul 2019

Legal Aid Matters

70 years ago the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 came into force. As an organisation that campaigns to promote access to justice, we want to mark…

Jul 2019

Legal Aid ‘culture of refusal’

Applications for legal aid in homelessness cases dropped by 34%

Jun 2019

Normalisation of risk in the legal aid sector

Normalisation of risk in the legal aid sector. Simon Mullings examines how work ‘at risk’ in the legal aid sector has become the new normal.

Mar 2019

‘Real-life Daniel Blake”s barrister blasts legal aid cuts following tribunal win

Feb 2019

Equality Act: access to assessors in the county court

Andrea Qwarnstrom and Simon Mullings consider the current law and guidance around the use of Equality Act assessors in the county court. Experience suggests that more robust procedures and guidance might be needed to ensure that this important court resource is properly utilised.

Nov 2018

Legal 500 2019

Well done to the Housing Team for once again achieving recognition in the Legal 500 as one of the top firms providing advice and assistance in the area of Social Housing and Landlord & Tenant work.

Oct 2018

Life on Universal Credit

Life on Universal Credit ‘They gave me a 212-day sanction so I had no living costs for seven months’