Product Description

Defending Possession Proceedings has established itself as the book that lawyers and advisers turn to in a housing crisis. It is the key homelessness prevention handbook a comprehensive guide to all aspects of the law relating to possession proceedings. Dealing with the three principal types of occupier - social housing tenants, private tenants and mortgage borrowers - Defending Possession Proceedings focuses on practice and procedure and the relevant substantive law. It is written in a user-friendly way, so that it contains information which is of use to the most experienced legal practitioner, yet is still understandable to the least experienced housing adviser. The main text is supplemented with official forms and notices, statements of case and applications, an instructions checklist, the Rent Arrears Pre-Action Protocol and CPR Part 55. The sixth edition has been updated to include: CPR Part 55 and PD 55 amendments taking into account the Court of Appeal judgment in Hassan, interim possession orders, demotion claims and claims against trespassers. The new Rent Arrears Pre-Action Protocol. The new form of postponed possession order (N28A). Housing Benefit Regulations 2006. Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 - specifically demoted tenancies and 'reasonableness' factors. Defending Possession Proceedings is an essential purchase for all lawyers and advisers working with actual or prospective defendants in possession proceedings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #358786 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 840 pages

Review
'For the novice and the seasoned performer, this work should only be removed from the desk for the purpose of carriage to court' --New Law Journal

'If defending possession proceedings is the task facing you, then this is the book to use' --Solicitor's Journal

' ... a treasure trove of law and tactics in perfect harmony' --Journal of Housing Law

Adviser 92, July + August 2002
"...the definitive guide to housing debt and possession proceedings."

About the Author
Jan Luba QC is a barrister practising at 2, Garden Court Chambers, London. He specialises in housing law and has written and trained extensively in this field. He is Vice-Chair of the Housing Law Practitioners' Association and was recently a member of the Lord Chancellor's Department Working Party on court procedures for housing cases.

Nic Madge is a District Judge at West London County Court and has written and trained extensively on housing law. He is a founder member of the Housing Law Practitioners' Association and a former member of the Law Society's Litigation Committee, Housing Committee and Leasehold Working Party and Lord Woolf's Housing Working Party.

Derek McConnell is a solicitor specialising in housing law at Bobbets Mackan in Bristol. He is the author of Owner Occupiers: Recent Developments published in Legal Action. He tutors widely on housing law, specialising in residential mortgage law and practice for debt and other advisers. He is a long serving member of the possession case duty rota scheme at Bristol County Court.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant Book
The definitive book for all advisers and lay advocates. Covers everything you may need to know about court process, defences and includes example forms etc. The housing adviser's bible