Local Authority Housing in UK Law

  • Porter v Magill
    • House of Lords
    • 13 December 2001
    ... ... Audit Commission under section 13 of the Local Government Finance Act 1982 to audit the accounts ... June 1987 was chairman of the council's Housing Committee. The two officers were Mr England, who ... on 1 April 1987 in order to obtain authority for officers to provide a report on how to ... ...
  • R v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and Another, ex parte. Spath Holme Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 07 December 2000
    ... ... suffered from a persistent shortage of housing. The demand, in particular for private rented ... to rates or, in the case of dwellings of local authorities or new town corporations, to the use ... by principle, inconsonant with authority and oblivious of the actual practice of ... ...
  • Metropolitan Properties Company (F.G.C.) Ltd v Lannon
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 July 1968
    ... ... (instructed by the solicitor, ministry of Housing) appeared of behalf of the Tribunal on the ... He is usually a valuer appointed by the local authority. If either party objects to his figure, ... ...
  • R (Westminster City Council) v National Asylum Support Service
    • House of Lords
    • 17 October 2002
    ... ... 9 Which public authority, if any, should provide or pay for this ... 21(1) of the 1948 Act provided that a Local Authority "with the approval of the Secretary of ... Act 1996, section 9, provided that housing accommodation under the Housing Act 1985 should ... ...
  • Runa Begum v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council
    • House of Lords
    • 13 February 2003
    ... ... July 2001, taken under section 202 of the Housing Act 1996, a determination of Runa Begum's "civil ... Hayes, a re-housing manager employed by the local housing authority, was independent of that ... ...
  • Wandsworth London Borough Council v Winder
    • House of Lords
    • 29 November 1984
    ... ... infringed by a decision of a public authority, to challenge the decision in defence to an ... tenancy in the sense of section 28 of the Housing Act 1980. The landlords were the London Borough ... and control of houses provided by a local authority under this Part of this Act shall be ... ...
  • R (Khatun and Others) v Newham London Borough Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 February 2004
    ... ... legislation contained in Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 ("the 1996 Act") ... The respondents had ... and the prevention of homelessness, a local housing authority or social services authority ... ...
  • R (Bibi and Another) v Newham London Borough Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 April 2001
    ... ... engendered by an administrative authority ... 2 Before us are two joined appeals by a Housing Authority, the London Borough of Newham, against ... leaped to the front of the queue for local authority housing. This interpretation of the ... ...
  • Poplar Housing and Regeneration Community Association Ltd v Donoghue
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 April 2001
    ... ... homeless – and that is a finding that has been already made by the local authority, which has been reviewed and has not been challenged, the final ... ...
  • Lazarus Estates Ltd v Beasley
    • Court of Appeal
    • 24 January 1956
    ... ... to increase the rent under the new Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954. They served three ... ...
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