Cornerstone Annual Housing Conference

09.00 Registration (from 9am – 9.30am)

09.30 Opening address and welcome – Ranjit Bhose QC (Chair)

09.45 Plenary session: The key developments in 2016 and a look forward to 2017 – Ranjit Bhose QC and Andy Lane

10.30 Plenary session: Tenancy management, fraud & enforcement –Kuljit Bhogal

11.15 Refreshments

11.40 Breakout session – 1

a. Service Charges – Shomik Datta and Michael Paget
A look at the key cases and developments for housing associations and local authority leaseholders

b. Court of Protection update – Jenny Oscroft and Zoe Whittington
What you need to know as a landlord of social housing

c. Right to Buy and Pay to Stay – Andy Lane
The latest on the voluntary extension of the Right to Buy to tenants of housing associations

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Breakout session – 2

a. Welfare reform issues – Matt Lewin
Pay to rent and other issues

b. Anti-Social Behaviour: sharing experience on how the powers have been used – Kuljit Bhogal and Zoe Whittington

c. Housing litigation – Dean Underwood
JR and other public law changes for landlords

14.15 Breakout session – 3

a. Housing litigation – Dean Underwood
JR and other public law changes for landlords

b. Out of borough placement policy and practice – Kelvin Rutledge QC
Practice and policy after Nzolameso

c. Homelessness and allocations case law and policy update – Catherine Rowlands

15.00 Refreshments

15.20 Plenary session: Vulnerable tenants (inc. EA & HR) – Ryan Kohli and Emma Dring

16.00 Panel Q&A: Ask the Cornerstone experts

16.20 Closing remarks

*Programme subject to change without prior notification*