Alexander Campbell

This Q&A considers whether postings on a members’ personal social media account could amount to a breach of the member code of conduct adopted by a local authority as required by section 27(2) of the Localism Act 2011.

This Q&A highlights key principles and considerations for contracting authorities when valuing a contract for the purpose of the financial thresholds under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015), SI 2015/102. It also looks at an example where a contracting authority is looking to value a managed service contract, where there is a difference between the remuneration to be paid to the contractor and the sum to be paid under the contract as a whole.

This Q&A considers tenant’s options in circumstances where they have issued proceedings in uncontested lease renewal proceedings under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, have not yet served those proceedings, but now want to vacate the premises at the earliest opportunity.

This Q&A considers the duties a local authority has to investigate when it receives a request to assign secure tenancy from an individual going into residential care.

This Q&A considers what the duties of an environmental health officer in relation to the HHSRS are and what powers of enforcement an environmental health officer has.

This Q&A considers service of a NOSP under the HA 1985 and what affect this has on the legal status of a secure tenancy.

This Q&A addresses the question of what effect the service of a notice to quit has on the legal status of a secure tenant and of an unauthorised occupant. This Q&A also addresses the question of whether an eviction warrant is required once a possession order is made by the court or whether possession can simply be taken on the date of possession without a warrant.

This Q&A addresses the legal consequences for a secure tenant of a local authority when the local authority landlord sells the freehold of the premises concerned.

This Q&A considers breach of condition notices and the time frame for complying with them after an unsuccessful judicial review.

This Q&A considers what the term ‘true value of land’ means in relation to a lease extension for the purposes of Land Registry practice guide 67.

This Q&A considers whether a right of way includes a right to load and unload.

This Q&A considers how best to end an unofficial letting of a storage container.

This Q&A considers what the procedure is to end a monthly assured periodic tenancy which has come about by the service of a notice pursuant to paragraph 4(1) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 in 2013 which terminated the long residential tenancy.

This Q&A considers the powers and duties that a housing authority has to resolve disputes cross alleging anti-social behaviour between the right to buy owners and a secure tenant.

This Q&A considers who should be named as the defendant in possession proceedings which are brought after the death of a tenant who has died intestate and after a notice to quit has been served on the personal representatives of the deceased tenant and on the Public Trustee.

This Q&A considers whether, when completing a statutory declaration, a declarant must state their home address or whether, instead, giving their business address is sufficient.

This Q&A considers the question of when a landlord, having served notice on a former tenant or a guarantor for payment of arrears pursuant to LT(C)A 1995, is entitled to bring court proceedings on the basis of that notice.

This Q&A considers the question as to what the effect on existing restrictions of title is when freehold land belonging to a dissolved company is passed to the Crown as bona vacantia.

This Q&A considers whether a party making an application under section 48 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 has to serve the application on the other party or do anything else in order to perfect the application, or whether they just need to file the application at the tribunal.

This Q&A considers whether a landlord who is an executor and who wishes to serve notice on a tenant to contract out of the provisions of Part II of the LTA 1954 can be described in that notice as ‘the executors of X’ or whether the executors need specifically to be named. The Q&A will also address the impact of this question on the validity of any notice which has been served and which names the landlord as ‘the executors of X’.