Homelessness and Allocations
Author: Andrew Arden QC, Emily Orme and Toby Vanhegan
Housing practitioners and advisers seeking authoritative, accurate and accessible guidance on local authority duties need look no further than Homelessness and Allocations.
Full Price: £48
Edition: Eighth (March 2010) 984pp
' ... an indispensable commentary on and guide to a complex and fast-moving area of the law: a must-have for academics, specialist practitioners and busy local government officers alike'. Solicitors Journal
'This is the book on the law relating to homelessness.' Law Society Gazette
' ... if you advise on homelessness, you will need this book. Buy it now'. Legal Aid News
New in the eighth edition:
- Substantial revision of chapter on allocations following the seminal decision of the House of Lords in Ahmad, and to include allocations by registered providers of social housing.
- Complete rewrite of chapter on immigration issues, and expanded coverage of additional means of providing housing to include the New Asylum Model (NASS).
- Extended coverage of duties under the Children Act 1989 following recent House of Lords decisions.
- New guidance on intentional homelessness and mortgage arrears.
- Coverage of numerous other important decisions, including those of the House of Lords in Aweys and Moran on the meaning of reasonable to continue to occupy for the purpose of defining homelessness, Holmes-Moorhouse on priority need and children, following the separation of parents and of the recent Supreme Court ruling in Tomlinson v Birmingham CC which found that rights under Part 7 of the Housing Act 1996 are not civil rights engaging article 6.
Contents
- The policy of the provisions
- The provisions in outline
- Immigration
- Homelessness
- Priority need
- Intentional homelessness
- Local connection
- Protection of property
- Homelessness decisions
- Part 7 discharge
- Allocations
- Enforcement
- Appendix A - Statutes
- Appendix B - Statutory instruments
- Appendix C - Guidance
Authors
Andrew Arden QC is a full-time practitioner and head of Arden Chambers, London. He is a pioneer of housing (and homelessness) law, and has acted in many of the leading cases in addition to his writing. He is the general editor of the Housing Encyclopaedia, the Housing Law Reports and the Journal of Housing Law, as well as co-author of Arden and Partington's Housing Law, the Manual of Housing Law, Local Government Finance Law and Local Government Constitutional and Administrative Law (all Sweet & Maxwell).
Emily Orme is a barrister at Arden Chambers who undertakes both court and advisory work in the areas of housing, business tenancies, administrative and local government law. She has contributed articles to a number of publications including New Law Journal and Journal of Housing Law.
Toby Vanhegan is a barrister at Arden Chambers who covers all areas of housing law, with special expertise in immigration and asylum law and the eligibility of immigrants and asylum-seekers for housing and other forms of social assistance.
Sample chapter
Chapter one (pdf: 228Kb)
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ISBN
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: Pb 978 1 903307 74 8
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