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Junior Housing Law Practitioners' Association. To promote, foster and develop the rights of homeless persons, tenants and others who receive housing services.
UK
Joined February 2021
📢JR HLPA CONFERENCE 2023: 30 June 2023 Human Rights Start at Home: A Social Justice Conference Speakers include 💥Baroness Hale, former president of UKSC 💥The Housing Ombudsman 💥Sue James, CEO, Legal Action Group Only 70 spaces, Get your tickets now! https://t.co/kWouT01kbY
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Please join us for the first Junior HLPA conference on 30 June 2023 at BPP Red Lion Street, registration from 1:30pm.
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WE'RE HIRING 🚨 Do you want to work as a paralegal at the cutting edge of public law in the UK? If you're pursuing a career in the legal charity sector & can demonstrate experience of working with vulnerable individuals, apply before 7 July 👇 https://t.co/YsILH7ZAHO
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Tonight we’ll be meeting for an informal discussion group on #suitability & the SC case of Imam v Croydon. All junior (& future) housing lawyers welcome! DM if you would like the online link or to join the mailing list for the future. Thanks @DoughtyStHSW for hosting us
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Thank you for having us @LegalActionMag!
@marieajparis, Chloe Hayes @SocialImpactBPP and @jamiejohn39 delivered a great session advising young lawyers on how to develop their housing practice. Thanks to @jo_under_wood for chairing! Great to have so many future housing lawyers in the room 👍 @YLALawyers @HLPA_Junior
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Those of us who work in homelessness knew this. But bringing the stories together remains shocking.
Councils move hundreds of homeless families out of London with 24-hour ultimatums
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Khan v Notting Hill Genesis [2023] EW Misc 14 (CC) (17 November 2023)
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Please check @TheCLLS 's SWSQF page: https://t.co/uwimp4CArt and our own website: https://t.co/kbsmoLajCk ... for updates coming soon! Applications will close 23 November 2023 🗓️
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This fund remains the sector's only real response to the SQE and the often prohibitive cost of qualifying whilst working in #LEGALAID . It is a fantastic opportunity for those working within the sector as advice workers, case workers, and paralegals to qualify as solicitors.
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📢We are very pleased to announce that applications for the #SWSQF (Social Welfare Solicitors Qualification Fund) will be opening on 19 Oct 2023!
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After a careers panel and Q&A we are off to @DoughtyStHSW for the social. Thank you to them for hosting and our other sponsors @BPPGroup and Linklaters and @gardencourtlaw for the merch Mostly, THANK YOU to everyone who came today! We hope to see you in the sector soon😀
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Lovely to join @HLPA_Junior this afternoon and feel the passion in the room for changing lives through enforcing the law to give tenants the right to a decent home
Our second panel is: Is there a right to a decent home? Chaired by DDJ @JeinsenLam of @SWLLawCentres we are welcoming: @VictoryThiru1 of @AnthonyGoldLaw
@KarenPBuckMP for Westminster North Richard Blakeway @HousingOmbuds
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Our closing address is from @sue_james1, who learned at University that the law could be used as a tool for social change Great to see students and attendees with copies of the latest @LegalActionGrp magazine and #LegalAidMatters picked up during the break
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The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 was brought as a private member's bill by @KarenPBuckMP to update the law to protect tenants forced to live in unfit properties. Her constituency casework has people coming with housing work above all other issues
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The @HousingOmbuds are getting a phone call every minute. We are aggregating complaints for emerging issues. We can apply discretion with a practical approach - Richard Blakeway
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.@VictoryThiru1 talks through some of his cases and what his clients have had to deal with. He then gives and overview on tenants rights and how they may change with the upcoming Renters (Reform) Bill
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Our second panel is: Is there a right to a decent home? Chaired by DDJ @JeinsenLam of @SWLLawCentres we are welcoming: @VictoryThiru1 of @AnthonyGoldLaw
@KarenPBuckMP for Westminster North Richard Blakeway @HousingOmbuds
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Section 17 of the Children Act 1989 states that a local authority has a responsibility towards children 'in need' in their area S17 has (unintentionally) become a useful tool for families facing homelessness + excluded from mainstream housing assistance - Shadin @Project17UK
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Households in temporary accommodation are at the highest level in almost 20 years This is due to high rents, low housing benefit, huge barriers to renting etc @jo_under_wood then gives a summary of the 5 tests within a homelessness application for a council to accept a duty
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We need people with energy who want to fight the housing crisis with us - @IzzyKoksal
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.@jo_under_wood gives us the short answer that in the UK, there is no right to a home. She takes us through domestic and international law @IzzyKoksal then talks about @HousingActionSL who work on individual rights and to change the bigger picture via group knowledge & action
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