Eviction in UK Law
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Leasehold or Freehold? Leader-Eviction Rules in the British Conservative and Labour Parties
This paper examines how leader-eviction rules affect the security of tenure of party leaders in the British Conservative and Labour parties. It sets out a framework for analysing and comparing evic...
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Seeking Shelter in Personal Insolvency Law: Recession, Eviction, and Bankruptcy's Social Safety Net
Many legal systems understand consumer insolvency laws as social insurance, providing relief and a ‘fresh start’ to over‐indebted households who fall through gaps in the social safety net. Personal...
- Statutes Protection from Eviction Act, 1964
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‘When it rains, it pours’: Housing evictions and criminal convictions in Sweden
Precarious housing and criminal behaviour are both important elements in processes of marginalization and cumulative disadvantage. It is well known that housing eviction primarily affects the weake...... ... It is well known that housing eviction primarily affects the weakest groups in society. In this article we ask if housing eviction has an independent effect on subsequent criminality and ... ...
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REGULATION AS SOCIAL POLICY: HOME EVICTIONS AND REPOSSESSIONS IN THE UK AND SWEDEN
This article asks how the UK and Sweden regulate, prevent, or mitigate the consequences of mortgage‐related household eviction and repossession. Contrary to initial expectations, the findings show ...... ... AND SWEDEN HANAN HABER This article asks how the UK and Sweden regulate, prevent, or mitigate the consequences of mortgage-related household eviction and repossession. Contrary to initial expectations, the nd- ings show a growth and diversity in both regulation and social spending in the UK ... ...
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There’s Regulatory Crime, and then there’s Landlord Crime: from ‘Rachmanites’ to ‘Partners’
This article considers local authority strategies towards the regulation and prosecution of private landlords who commit the criminal offences of unlawful eviction and harassment. Generally, local ...... ... local authority strategies towards the regulation and prosecution of private landlords who commit the criminal offences of unlawful eviction and harassment. Generally, local authorities operate compliance-based strategies, rarely (if ever) resorting to prosecution. In seeking to explain ... ...
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Article 8 in Housing Law: No Home for Human Rights Values
The English Courts have clashed with Strasbourg for over a decade on the meaning of Article 8 of the Convention in the context of social housing repossession cases. Although the case of Pinnock v M...... ... A consequence of this approach, however, has been to allow eviction in harsh and disproportionate circumstances. The courts’ failure to engage with Human Rights values has therefore left Article 8 as a missed ... ...
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Penal power at the border: Realigning state and nation
Penal power at the border relies on coercive tools such as expulsion, eviction, criminalization, and penalization to respond to mass mobility, which is perceived to be a social threat rather than a...... ... Vanessa Barker ... Stockholm University, Sweden ... Abstract Penal power at the border relies on coercive tools such as expulsion, eviction, criminalization, and penalization to respond to mass mobility, which is perceived to be a social threat rather than a ... ...
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Alignments and Realignments in Central Asia: The Rationale and Implications of Uzbekistan's Rapprochement with Russia
The eviction of the USA from the military base at Khanabad-Qarshi and the signing of an alliance treaty between Uzbekistan and Russia in November 2005 marked one of the most dramatic turnarounds in...... ... The eviction of the USA from the military base at Khanabad- Qarshi and the signing of an alliance treaty between Uzbekistan and Russia in November 2005 marked ... ...
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The Landlord And Tenant (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1958
The Rent Act, 1957, gave to a tenant whose house was decontrolled by reason of its rateable value a breathing space of fifteen months which came to an end on October 6, 1958. That was the earliest ...... ... a considerable hard core of tenants who had not been offered leases by their landlords and who faced eviction on October 6 without having been able to make any alternative arrangements. To these at the eleventh hour the Landlord and ... ...
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