Product Description

The complex nature of housing law and the significant human impact of cases lost and won, means the number of cases before the courts continues to grow. Housing Law Casebook covers the whole spectrum of housing law. The thematic structure, succinct case summaries and useful cross-referencing enables busy practitioners to identify relevant cases, quickly and efficiently. Nic Madge, circuit judge, and new co-author Claire Sephton of Shelter, have substantially restructured this fourth edition to improve the accessibility and ease of use of the material. The chapters have been re-organised into themes and each case summary has been given a headnote. This edition now comes with a free, fully searchable CD-Rom containing the full text of the Housing Law Casebook. It is essential reading for barristers, solicitors, voluntary sector advisers, housing managers, Homeless Persons Unit officers and students. The main subject areas are: Homelessness and allocations; Creation and termination of tenancies and licences; Security of tenure - assured, assured shorthold, secure, introductory, demoted, protected and common law tenants and licensees; Grounds for possession and reasonableness ; Occupants without security of tenure; Possession procedure - against tenants, mortgagees and other occupiers; Disrepair; Housing outside the Housing Acts - community care, Children Act and asylum-seekers; Illegal eviction and harassment; Long leases - service charges; Housing and human rights

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #437699 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 1100 pages

Review
'an excellent addition to any legal practitioner's library' --Law Society Gazette

'an immensely important book for practitioners' --Civil Justice Quarterly

'an indispensable point of first reference' --Justice of the Peace

About the Author
Nic Madge is a circuit judge. He was formerly a recorder and district judge and head of the housing department at Bindman and Partners, London. He is co-author of Defending Possession Proceedings (LAG, 6th edn, 2006), and author of Annotated Housing Statutes (Sweet and Maxwell, 2005) and a member of the senior editorial board of Civil Procedure ('the White Book') (Sweet and Maxwell). He writes regularly on housing law and procedure, including contributions to Law Society Gazette and New Law Journal and co-authors 'Recent developments in housing law' in Legal Action. He is a founder member of the Housing Law Practitioners' Association. Claire Sephton is a solicitor specialising in housing law. She has worked in the voluntary sector for 17 years, initially at North Kensington Law Centre® and more recently at Shelter. She is an experienced trainer and lecturer.

Customer Reviews

HOUSING LAW IS HARD LAW: THIS BOOK GIVES THE ANSWERS
This is the ultimate comprehensive statement on what is happening with housing law precedent today. Madge & Sephton acknowledge that housing law is hard law but their work is an exceptionally easy read with nicely navigable themes to ease the pain (a bit).

It is at least an affordable housing law casebook dealing with real property, real issues, real confrontations of the most personal kind, and real housing details with excellent one line summaries now introduced at the beginning of each authority. This is a common law book of housing which is well structured in twenty one (lettered) chapters plus a very detailed index and exceptional CD ROM. The individual cases are intelligently and carefully set out with useful summaries and further references throughout.

Madge & Sephton do rely on a team of helpers to get the information to us as the end users, whether we are lawyers or advisers. They pull together the details concisely and with much thought as to what we need as users in the system. The matter-of-fact explanation of essential case facts remains its key value to the housing practitioner and the information is easy to find for the inexperienced.

At the 4th edition launch, it was rightly said that if you deal with housing matters and do not have a copy of this book, it will seriously damage your health!

How right because the authors cover wide ground with decisions in all the courts, relying on case details to be sent it for inclusion especially where the decisions are borderline and therefore terribly important for the advocate. It is a hard task but they bridge that gap between the practical guide, and the detailed leading authority in such as way as to make housing law easier and more accessible for all.

The authors write that their aim is to "note all the cases that housing practitioners will ever need". They do just that, and that's why the book is heavy at over one thousand pages! They include just about everything in one place which gives us, as advisors, useful examples of the ways in which the law is interpreted and disputes resolved in practice. The CD is of great help, too, and I see its use expanding greatly as new editions of this work are prepared as housing remains a critical issue for all.

Our common law is about decisions made by judges, and is now heavily influenced, directed and steered by legislation in all its forms whether we like it or not, and whether the end result is `fair' or `just'.

Madge & Sephton have maintained that great common law tradition of judge-made law with all their casebook statements, and interpretations, giving an incisive approach to case-law detail which sets itself at the very top of the housing law book ladder for all to see and use.