Localism Bill published

Available here. This includes virtually all of the housing and homelessness proposals in the Green Paper consulation on social housing reform, even though the closing date for the consultation is 17 January 2011.

Legal Aid Debate Tuesday 14th December 2010

Karen Buck MP has been allocated an adjournment debate on Tuesday 14th December 9.30 – 11 am at Westminster Hall, the House of Commons. The subject is ‘Legal Aid’. This is an opportunity to inform MPs about the issues in the Green Paper and how it...

G T Stewart – closing date 17/12/2010

G T Stewart Solicitors We are a busy legal aid practice recommended in Chambers UK 2011 for our criminal defence work who wish to continue our expansion into complementary areas of civil expertise. We currently have vacancies in London and Leeds for experienced high...

Social Housing reform consultation details

The DCLG consultation [link to PDF] entitled ‘A Fairer future for Social Housing’ is due for responses by 17 January 2010 and the proposals are to be included in the Localism Bill for February. The forum for members’ to discuss the proposals is here....

Housing and Legal Aid discussions

HLPA members Robert Latham and Ben Chataway ran a workshop on housing and legal at the Legal Aid Conference: Social Welfare Law Matters on 12 November 2010. The workshop paper is available here [doc], and although pre-dating the Green Paper reforms, sets out the...