Overview

In our last edition of Housing Landscape we considered some of the practical effects on social housing providers following the Weaver and Doherty cases in view of the likelihood that public law and reasonableness defences were likely to be increasingly relied on by tenants in housing disputes.

The decision of the Court of Appeal in Barber v Croydon LBC case on 11 February 2010 confirms this trend. Although it involved a local housing authority it is likely to be relied on in future cases involving Registered Providers as well.

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