Our recent successes

Our team is constantly in demand for important housing cases. Recent successes include:

Alamo Housing Co-op v Meredith

We represented the claimant co-op in this major Court of Appeal case on the issue of short-life housing. The judgement established the co-op’s right to take possession proceedings against short-life tenants, even after its own interest in the properties had been brought to an end by the local authority. The occupiers argued unsuccessfully that the co-op had no right to bring the claim for possession, since its own interest in the land no longer existed.

London Borough of Southwark v Pemberton

Mrs Pemberton, the council’s tenant, lost her secure tenancy status, and the right to enforce repairs or to sue in contract, when she breached the terms of a suspended possession order. She sued the council for nuisance (she could not argue breach of contract) over an infestation of cockroaches, which had entered her flat through the communal ducts. The court felt that the local authority should not create a nuisance to the claimant. The court therefore decided that someone who was formerly a secure tenant had sufficient interest in the property occupied to pursue a claim for nuisance.