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5 Jul 2012, 10:36 am by Charon QC
Lawcast 211: Giles Peaker of the Nearly Legal blog on housing law and the changing legal world. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 11:11 am by sally
“Today I am talking to Giles Peaker, a solicitor at Anthony Gold Solicitors and founder of the Nearly Legal blog – a specialist housing blog which has grown with Giles since he became ‘fully legal’ and started working with ten barrister and solicitor contributors. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 3:06 pm by familoo
A link to some more stuff I said elsewhere on the topic of legal aid reform, and more importantly to what some other people (including a not-so-anonymous blogger) said about legal aid reform: Falling on deaf ears, By Jean-Yves Gilg, Giles Peaker, Lucy Reed & Juliette Frangos [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 11:37 pm by Tessa Shepperson
Giles Peaker, our reviewer, is an assistant solicitor in the Housing and Public Law team at solicitors Anthony Gold. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 5:43 am by Tessa Shepperson
I am pleased to introduce a review of this classic book from LAG, from Giles Peaker of Anthony Gold. [read post]
8 Apr 2018, 1:25 pm by familoo
Adam Wagner did the first one, and next up is Giles Peaker (of the excellent Nearly Legal Housing Law blog)... [read post]
27 Nov 2011, 1:05 am
I had noticed over the last couple of days Lucy Reed of Pink Tape, Giles Peaker of Nearly Legal and others on Twitter getting all of a lather over Ken Clarke's recent comments about the profession's opposition to the proposed legal aid cuts (I thought he made the comments several weeks ago, but the reason for the delayed reaction may be that this interview has only just gone online). [read post]
16 Jul 2013, 1:03 pm by J
At a slightly different location to normal at Fyvie Hall Ground Floor University of Westminster 309 Regent Street London W1B 2UWYour speakers are our very own Giles Peaker. [read post]
3 Apr 2014, 12:25 pm by Giles Peaker
Speakers Ceri Breeze, Welsh Government: ‘Overview of housing bills and trajectory’ David Smith, Anthony Gold: ‘Private rented sector: Regulation’ Giles Peaker, Anthony Gold: ‘Homelessness: Welsh Amendments’ Stephanie Smith, Arden Chambers: ‘Gypsies and Travellers: The Housing (Wales) Bill’ Martin Partington CBE QC, Arden Chambers: ‘Renting Homes’ David Cowan, University of Bristol Law School/Arden Chambers, and… [read post]
24 Sep 2011, 12:36 am by Tessa Shepperson
  We take a look – see what we found here … Further reading: Domesday book – read my new post on the History of Law Blog, and find out about Britains finest treasure If you are a housing lawyer, contact Nearly Legal about the lawyers squatters letter Meanwhile Giles Peaker (aka Nearly) writes an interesting piece in the Guardian about social landlords being forced into social policing [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 5:10 am by Anita Davies
However, as Giles Peaker from the Nearly Legal Blog points out, the traveller and Gypsy communities will be those hardest hit by the new measures as some 25% of the Gypsy and Traveller population who live in caravans do not live on authorised sites. [read post]
23 Mar 2013, 11:01 am by J
In the case of a claim against trespassers there needs to be “a substantial risk of public disturbance or of serious harm to persons or property which properly require immediate determination” (CPR PD 55, para.1.3).Both the judge and the first defendant (represented pro bono by the marvelous Emily Wilsdon, and instructed by the well-known housing law nut, Giles Peaker) took the point that, well, the claim didn’t come within the scope of the practice direction. [read post]
17 Oct 2023, 9:48 am by Tessa Shepperson
It does not look as if s12 is limited to allotments as it talks about ‘any lease or tenancy or in any covenant, contract or undertaking relating to the use to be made of any land’ Giles Peaker wrote a brilliant post on this here in 2011 when he pointed out (in the comments) that the act is still good law but that it would not extend to cockerels. [read post]
22 Jul 2021, 1:26 am by Tessa Shepperson
For more details of the case, see Giles Peaker’s excellent post on Nearly Legal here. [read post]
16 Jun 2021, 12:20 am by Robin Stewart
Safer Renting are represented by Justin Bates (who acted for the successful landlord in Trecarrell House Ltd v Rouncefield in the Court of Appeal and discussed that case with Tessa in a Legal Cases webinar) and my colleague at Anthony Gold Solicitors, Giles Peaker. [read post]
23 Oct 2024, 9:34 am by Tessa Shepperson
Then, in the afternoon, we had lawyers, including barrister Justin Bates KC (who will be giving a talk to Landlord Law members on the bill on 12 November) and Giles Peaker, who writes the wonderful Nearly Legal Blog. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 11:57 am by Charon QC
” The Law Society Gazette was on the case quickly: Lawyers berate new law criminalising squatters Chair of the Housing Law Practitioners Association, Giles Peaker, who was one of the organisers of the letter, said the change amounted to a ‘tax subsidy’ for landlords who leave their properties unoccupied. [read post]
1 Jun 2013, 11:55 am by Charon QC
AND… I thoroughly enjoyed reading this post from Giles Peaker who started the Nearly Legal blog some years ago… most amusing: A lesson in professionalism Do have a look to see what lawyers who blog have to put up with sometimes from people with a ‘sense of entitlement’ – even though we blog ‘free to view’. [read post]
4 Nov 2022, 1:55 am by Tessa Shepperson
The Judge ruled The benefit – which NHSPSL sought – of protecting the property from trespassers and vandalism was secured by means of the occupation of the property by others Read what Giles Peaker from Anthony Gold Solicitors said here. [read post]
27 May 2022, 12:04 am by Tessa Shepperson
Giles Peaker, a partner at Anthony Gold says it’s increasingly clear that attempts to rely on it being ‘someone else’s job’ to tell the landlord they have a licensable HMO, will fail. [read post]