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Description: Housing conditions (Pexels_Jean-Baptiste Platteau)

Lawyers and environmental health campaigners are mourning the death of Professor David Ormandy, who died on 11 April 2024 after a long period of...

Housing
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The London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association has lodged an official complaint over ‘genuinely disturbing’ treatment of lawyers...

Criminal law
Description: Immigration law for housing practitioners

How does immigration status affect housing rights? Liz Davies KC and Adrian Berry explain, in the first in a regular series where leading...

Housing
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A rare spell of illness dampens Katherine Adams’ spirits but allows time for reflection on the link between poor housing and poor health.

Civil justice
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Sam Madge-Wyld and Liz Davies KC cover housing law news and legislation, and cases on possession claims, tenancy deposits, rent repayment orders,...

Housing
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Published2024-04-18

Atif Kaudri takes a look at the government’s proposed changes to the work capability assessment and Mind’s responses to it.

Mental health
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In recent months, the MoJ has decided to rethink its approach to legal support and has now started to test this in public as it develops a new Legal...

Legal aid
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Katrina Crossley explains how donating unwanted legal textbooks can boost advocacy training in Sierra Leone.

Practice and procedure
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Kaweh Beheshtizadeh says the Labour leader’s biography suggests this former radical human rights lawyer has the makings of a radical prime...

Civil justice
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Published2024-04-17

A round-up of the latest important cases from Adam Boukraa, Steve Broach KC, Anne-Marie Irwin, Daniel Kozelko and Rachel Sullivan (adults), and...

Community care
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Published2024-04-11

Long-standing housing lawyer Adrian Brazier on what drove him to step away from the social justice coalface.

Legal aid
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Angela Jackman KC (Hon) and Eleanor Wright look at recent updates to guidance for local authorities on travel to school for children of compulsory...

Civil justice