• Lynch v Kirby [2010] EWHC 297 – whether a tenancy commenced when the tenant moved in or when housing benefit began payment. You can download my casenote for details.
• Connors v Birmingham CC (2010) Legal Action May 2010 p.25 – Homelessness appeal against Birmingham’s standard practice of not giving reasons as to why offered accommodation was suitable. You can download my casenote for details.
• Birmingham CC -v- Qasim [2009] EWCA Civ 1080 – whether the unlawful nature of an allocation voids the subsequent grant of a tenancy. You can download my briefing for details and analysis.  The Supreme Court has since refused Birmingham permission to appeal on the basis that the Court of Appeal’s decision was “plainly right”.
• Holmes-Moorhouse -v- LB Richmond [2009] UKHL 7; [2009] 1 WLR 413; [2009] HLR 34 – whether children who were the subject of a shared residence order could reasonably be expected to reside with both parents. You can download my briefing for details and analysis. The Court of Appeal decision was reported at [2008] 1 WLR 1289; [2008] HLR 19.
• Gorman v Lambeth LBC (2008) Legal Action Dec 2009 p.23 - agreed damages of £120,000 for breach of covenant to repair, including for loss on the sale of the property.
• LB Islington -v- Uckac [2006] 1 WLR 1303 (CA) – the Housing Act 1985 provides a complete code for the termination of a tenancy so the common law remedy of rescission is not available.
• Muscat -v- Smith [2003] 1 WLR 2853 (CA) – following the transfer of a landlord's interest to a new landlord, if the new landlord sues the tenant for rent arrears which arose under the old landlord, the tenant may set off against the claim any counterclaim they had against the old landlord, for example for damages for breach of covenant to repair
• R -v- Social Security Commissioner ex p Chamberlain (2000) The Times 1 Aug 2000 – Commissioner erred in law in failing to grant leave to appeal against a decision upholding termination of Incapacity Benefit.
• Southwark LBC -v- Logan (1995) 29 HLR 40; (1996) 8 Admin LR 315 (CA) – squatter had not acquired tenancy by estoppel or any other means.
• Gwenter -v- Eastern Group plc (1995) Legal Action Aug 1995 p.19 (CA) – interim injunction correctly issued to oblige supplier to reconnect the electricity supply of a customer accused of tampering with her meter. As the supply was pursuant to statute, not contract, the availability of such a remedy was in doubt until this case.
• Faulkner -v- Yorkshire Electricity plc (1994) Legal Action Feb 1995 p.23 – widow not liable for the electricity arrears of her late husband, repudiating the concept of “beneficial user” by which utilities uniquely claimed that anyone who benefited from their services could be liable to pay for them.