This practical course will look at the essentials of succession law and practice in relation to local authority secure tenants and provide delegates with a solid grounding in the laws that relate to succession and in dealing with any under-occupation that may subsequently arise.
In particular, using comprehensive training notes that will be provided to each delegate, the course will:
Set out and then check delegates’ recall and understanding of succession law basics relating to secure local authority tenants;
Using a flowchart, look at how officers should go about determining if any succession has arisen in relation to a secure tenancy that began before 1st April 2012;
Using a further flowchart, look at how officers should go about determining if any succession has arisen in relation to a secure tenancy that began on or after 1st April 2012 (in light of changes brought about to the Housing Act 1985 by the Localism Act 2011);
Set out and then check delegates’ recall and understanding of the law and practical considerations regarding any under-occupation that may exist after a succession has been confirmed;
Using a third flowchart, look at how officers should go about determining whether under-occupation applies and how to practically deal with it;
Outline the steps officers should carry out to terminate a tenancy of a deceased tenant where no succession has arisen.
This course is aimed at local authority housing officers, those dealing with managing local authority housing stock and housing law advisors, including those that are relatively new to this area of housing and legal practice.
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Senior Solicitor, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
Jalil has worked at Dudley MBC since 2001, predominantly focussing on many aspects of housing law, including dealing with possession action and proceedings for various tenancy breaches (among other things, based on ASB/nuisance, failure to allow access for various property inspections, hoarding, condition of property and/or garden areas and failure to occupy as a main or only home), as well as for trespass, illegal occupation, under-occupation following succession and there no longer being a person in occupation who requires a significantly adapted property. During this time, he also sought many ASBOs and warrants of entry for gas inspections and civil anti-social behaviour injunctions in the magistrates and county courts.
Throughout his time at Dudley, he has been proactive in helping the Council’s Legal and Housing Services compile various processes, procedures, policies and protocols (including those relating to succession, mutual exchanges, property inspections for gas and electricity inspections and absent tenants) and in training staff across many of these areas, both from within and outside of the Council. External delegates have included those from the police, health and youth offending services and magistrates from the local magistrates’ court.
For the last 5+ years, he has also been formally managing a team of solicitors and support staff at the Council who work on various aspects of housing law, trespass, injunction and closure order matters, whom he had previously informally managed for many years.
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