Our housing law team can help with a range of issues including:
If your home is in disrepair and your landlord is not taking action to carry out the necessary repairs, our specialist Housing Law Solicitors can help you take action to ensure repairs are carried out, and may also be able to help you obtain compensation.
If you are facing court proceedings because you in arrears with your rent, our Housing Law team can give expert advice and may be able to represent you in trying to retain your home and make arrangements to manage the debt. By drawing on our firm's expertise in overlapping areas of law like welfare benefits and community care law we may be able to find solutions which will mean an order for possession can be avoided.
If you have fallen into mortgage arrears, and your lender is seeking a Court Order to obtain posession of your home, our Housing Law Solicitors can give expert advice and represent you in defending your lender's possession claim. Our expertise in welfare benefits law can be useful in cases like this, ensuring you receive the maximum benefit to help with your mortgage payments.
Our expert Housing Law Solicitors have a wealth of experience in representing tenants facing possession proceedings brought by landlords due to allegations of antisocial behaviour. Our firm's expertise in areas like mental health law means that we are able to assist in cases where allegations have been made against particularly vulnerable individuals. We can also advise in cases where individuals are dealing with antisocial or violent behaviour from neighbours.
Harassment can be very distressing and could make you feel as if you have no choice but to leave your home. However, harassment by a landlord is also a serious criminal offence. If your landlord is harassing you, our Housing Law Solicitors can advise you on the legal position and help you take appropriate action.
If your landlord wishes to evict you, there are proper legal procedures that must be followed, which depend on the type of tenancy agreement you have. If you believe you have been illegally evicted, our Housing Law Solicitors can advise on the legal situation and may be able to help you with obtaining an emergency Injunction so that you can return to your home.
If have made a homelessness application to your local authority but have received the decision that your local authority will not help you to secure accommodation our Housing Law team could represent you in challenging the local authority's decision. We may also be able to help in cases where the local authority refuses to let you make a homelessness application.
Our Housing Law Solicitors can give expert advice on challenging decisions about housing applications made to local authorities and housing associations. In cases where the local authority wishes to transfer its housing stock to the control of a housing association, ALMO (Arms Length Management Organisation) or another organisation, we can also advise tenants on opposing the transfer.