Following a Which? report two types of carbon monoxide alarms have been removed from sale by both e-Bay and Amazon. (The detector pictured is NOT one of them.)
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Tag: human rights
July is Property Scams Awareness Month
There has been a worrying increase in the volume and variety of scams which are out to remove money from unsuspecting people. However, there is a property scam which can happen to you without you being aware of it!
Council billed £40,000 for mother and child human rights breaches
Ref. Medway Council v M & T (By Her Children’s Guardian) [2015] EWFC B164
Following established breaches under the Human Rights Act 1998, Medway Council have been ordered to pay damages of £20,000 to mother and child respectively. Her Honour Judge Lazarus commented that there had been an ‘alarming history’ of the unlawful accommodation of the girl by the authority for a period exceeding two years.
Mental Disabilities and ASTs analysed by Court of Appeal in latest ECHR case
Ref. McDonald v McDonald [2014] EWCA Civ 1049
In the recent case of McDonald v McDonald [2014], the Court of Appeal has ruled that a possession order granted to a company of receivers in the guise of the private landlord of an AST was not in breach of Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) – despite the tenant having a serious disorder that makes her upset by environmental changes…
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Supreme Court gives Preliminary Ruling on Monk Evictions
The Supreme Court is reputedly set to reject a challenge to the rule in Monk on notices to quit given by joint periodic tenants. The case referenced above saw a seven-judge panel hear a challenge to the 1992 ruling from a man left stranded in a property after his wife terminated the joint tenancy and left him. We look at the challenge, which asked what impact, if any, the European Convention on Human Rights might have…