Cornerstone Housing Newsletter – March 2022

Hot off the press!
Andy Lane and Tara O’Leary

It has been 12 months since the last Cornerstone Barristers’ Housing Newsletter but we haven’t been idle during that time! For example, we have:

• run 10 webinars
• been involved in some of the most important housing cases – such as Croydon LBC v Kalonga UKSC 2021/0044, R (Montero) v Lewisham LBC [2021] P.T.S.R. 1725, Barking and Dagenham LBC v Persons Unknown [2022] EWCA Civ 13, R (Imam) v Croydon LBC [2021] H.L.R. 43 (in the Court of Appeal this week) and Metropolitan Housing Trust v TM [2021] EWCA Civ 1890
• retained our top banding in the directory rankings
• spoken at conferences, such as SHLA and the Annual Fraud Conference in Oxford
• written articles

“Everyone In”: policy or no policy and the duty to consult/publish

Author: Matthew Feldman

In R(on the application of ZLL) v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government [2022] EWHC 85 (Admin), Fordham J considered the “Everyone In” initiative which was launched in March 2020 to assist local authorities to provide accommodation for all rough sleepers during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

The old new Civil Procedure Rules and the new (old) requirement for fairness

Author: Catherine Rowlands

The Civil Procedure Rules have gone through many changes since they came into force in 1999. On 4 April 2022, the 140^th amendment will come into force. 140 amendments in 23 years is an average of just over six a year. 23 years in, the word “new” has finally been removed from the first Rule.