The homelessness stats for April 2025 to March 2026 were published on Wednesday. These show a broadly consistent picture of numbers of applicants, preventions, an acceptances. There are slight reductions […]
Where a tenancy deposit has been taken but not protected, or the initial requirements of a scheme have not been complied with, or the landlord has not given the contract-holder […]
In Plenary on Tuesday, Rhun ap Iorwerth announced new legislation, which included the following statement "the value my Government places on fairness has motivated us to take action to strengthen […]
In past blogs, I have highlighted and put the flyer for our Welsh Housing Law Masterclasses. You can now book a place at this webpage: https://profbriefings.net/index.php/about-hlc26 See you on 10/11 […]
Some time ago on this blog, I said that I would be carrying out research on the use of the internal reviews process in Wales by homeless applicants. Since then, […]
In Kensington Mortgage Company Ltd v Price with Shelter Cymru intervening EWHC 1577, HHJ Keyser KC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, had to deal with a knotty but […]
As I have prefaced in previous posts, albeit a little tentatively, I can now announce that, with the assistance of the Housing Law Practitioners Association and the Social Housing Law […]
June was quite a month for housing policy in Wales (and, apologies - I was away last week on a/l). We had an oral statement from Sian Gwenllian which set […]
I've been reading a bit about welfare chauvinism - the idea that non-citizens who live permanently (in the UK in this case) should be excluded from from state social benefits […]
This week the Institute for Fiscal Studies published detail about the effects of LASPO 2012 (Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012) on the supply of legal aid. […]