A typical matter usually involves advising clients on the options available to them, and then if required issuing proceedings. This can often be at short notice particularly when an urgent remedy is required.

A dispute involving four households in which anti-social behaviour orders, injunctions and suspended possession order were granted against four tenants and two members of their families. A claim for possession against a tenant with an alcohol dependency problem. The tenant terminated her tenancy, but argued that her notice was not valid, because she alleged it was obtained under duress, or was an unconscionable bargain. She did not succeed in her arguments. A successful application for an anti-social behaviour order and an individual support order against a minor, who was causing nuisance on the estate where he lived. Two applications for without notice anti-social behaviour injunction orders, including exclusion orders and powers of arrest against two individuals in a Foyer scheme for young people. Dealing with a number of cases involving nuisance tenants with learning difficulties and/or mental health issues, including tenants who had been detained under Mental Health Act 1983. Applying for Injunctions, ASBO's and Possession Orders. Advising clients regarding tolerated trespassers and the effects of a possession order no longer being enforceable, such advice being confirmed by the decision in London & Quadrant -v- Ansell [2007]. Subsequently obtaining an order for possession against the former tenants and persons unknown. 

Southern Housing Group, Cambridge Housing Society and Christian Action (Enfield) Housing Association Limited.  

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