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Housing

26 February 2009
Issue: 7358 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , Property , Housing
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Ugiagbe v The London Borough of Southwark [2009] EWCA Civ 31, [2009] All ER (D) 95 (Feb)

The use of the phrase “good faith” in s 191 of the Housing act 1996 carries a connotation of some kind of impropriety, or some element of misuse or abuse of the legislation. Failure to follow informal advice to go to a local housing authority’s homeless persons unit when threatened with eviction, did not make an applicant intentionally homeless.

Issue: 7358 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , Property , Housing
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