Jan 2022
Jan 2022 - Edwards Duthie Shamash News, Housing and Social Welfare Blog
Latest HPCDS proposals The consultation on the Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme has recently closed. Here, Simon Mullings analyses a key proposal to offer early legal advice…
Mar 2021 - Edwards Duthie Shamash News, Property Blog
Part 2 of the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 (The Act) governs commercial tenancies and with very few exceptions applies to all commercial tenancies and leases unless…
Aug 2020 - Edwards Duthie Shamash News, Housing and Social Welfare Blog
Further details have emerged of how courts will deal with housing possession cases when they resume next week. Possession proceedings have been suspended since March to protect…
Mar 2020 - Edwards Duthie Shamash News
Whilst we need to concentrate on being safe at this time, I want to reassure you that everybody at Edwards Duthie Shamash is working extremely hard to…
Mar 2020 - Edwards Duthie Shamash News, Housing and Social Welfare Blog
In June 2019 the Guardian published an article by its legal correspondent Owen Bowcott describing reports of a ‘culture of refusal’ at the Legal Aid Agency (LAA). …
Sep 2019 - Edwards Duthie Shamash News, Housing and Social Welfare Blog
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 - Edwards Duthie Shamash News, Housing and Social Welfare Blog
Residents of east London flats say they are being forced back before safety assessments.
Aug 2019 - Edwards Duthie Shamash News, Housing and Social Welfare Blog
Simon Mullings, Senior Case Worker in Community Law.
Jul 2019 - Edwards Duthie Shamash News, Housing and Social Welfare Blog
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 - Edwards Duthie Shamash News, Housing and Social Welfare Blog
Applications for legal aid in homelessness cases dropped by 34%
Jun 2019 - Edwards Duthie Shamash News, Housing and Social Welfare Blog
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 - Edwards Duthie Shamash News, Housing and Social Welfare Blog
‘Real-life Daniel Blake”s barrister blasts legal aid cuts following tribunal win
Feb 2019 - Edwards Duthie Shamash News, Housing and Social Welfare Blog
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.