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Nick Bano

@NickBano

2 years

Huge cheer for the RMT banner at the Old Bailey. Hot Strike Summer - legal aid lawyers x the RMT

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@NickBano

4 months

AGAINST LANDLORDS is out today. I only set out to apply some Marxist thought to today’s housing horrors, but it has (already) proved to be such a wind-up that the Institute for Economic Affairs has labelled me an ‘edgy Maoist rebel’. I hope you find it useful and/or enjoyable.

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Nick Bano

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2 years

By my calculation, roughly one in every 26 people in the. UK is a landlord. There's about four times more landlords than schoolteachers.

Joseph Elliott

@J_Elliott94

2 years

What’s driving England’s housing crisis? In part, it’s because we’re now a country of *multiple* home ownership and private renters. In the last 20 years the proportion of adults owning multiple homes doubled, the %s of 16-34 y/os buying a home almost halved. 🏘️🧵

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2 years

Can't believe I'm about to become a statue defender

The Mill

@ManchesterMill

2 years

Just in from @HOME_mcr about their Soviet-era Engels statue from eastern Ukraine: “In light of the illegal invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army, we are in discussions with the co-commissioners of the artwork @MIFestival and the artist Phil Collins about how best to respond.”

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@NickBano

4 years

Huge respect & solidarity to the Stansted 15, whose appeal starts today. They are incredible people and they did an incredibly good thing.

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@NickBano

5 months

@john85foster Where is your colleague *supposed* to earn the landlord's living for them, then?

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@NickBano

3 months

At a bookshop talk for ‘Against Landlords’ in Edinburgh last night, a landlord complained that the event might breach hate crime laws. So if you never hear from me again it’s because I’ve been arrested and thrown in a Scottish jail.

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@NickBano

2 years

@aarjanistan Probably not an original thought, but it's increasingly clear that the so-called 'culture war' is incredibly effective at making a generation that has won on every front feel like they're somehow losing

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@NickBano

4 years

I used to work at the ILO, where the UK is an international joke for deciding to simply not have a labour inspectorate. But, yeah, I’m sure it’s the police not wanting to be accused of racism that’s the problem

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

4 months

As I say in the conclusion, “By methods as prosaic as law reform, we can work towards decommodifying housing, and drive landlords and house-price speculators from the face of the earth. We have done it before, and we must do it again”.

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@NickBano

2 years

My review of 'The Starmer Project' for @SocialistLawyer - the magazine that SKSQCMP himself used to edit

Take a look at the law-man, beating up the wrong guy

A new biography shows how Keir Starmer is, first and foremost, dedicated to destroying Jeremy Corbyn

link.medium.com

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

2 years

Just a reminder that if you’re a mentor - or even a colleague - of a junior barrister, your job is to support them through periods of intense overwork and help to identify ways of preventing it from happening, rather than telling them it’s normal and that they should suck it up.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

2 years

"If some people can make a killing of £1 million by an overnight sale of property someone has to pay that £1 million—it does not come from nowhere. It is paid for, of course, by the tenants". Harold Wilson, back in the 60s, explaining that renters pay for house price inflation

George Eaton

@georgeeaton

2 years

The average rent is now 15% higher than in early 2020 and stands at *£2,193* in London – today's @NewStatesman Chart of the Day.

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@NickBano

2 months

Well this is very touching

Garden Court Chambers

@gardencourtlaw

2 months

We are delighted to congratulate @NickBano , @OlliePersey & Mia Hakl-Law who have all been shortlisted at the 2024 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards. You are all #LegalAidHeroes !! Read why here▶️ #DoRightFearNoOne #LALYs24 @WeAreLAPG

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4 months

Property development types seem genuinely very upset that an open discussion about housing supply is even happening. It’s nice that we’re challenging the logic of no alternative.

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@NickBano

3 years

Straight out of a Victor Hugo novel - the sewage workers of Paris have just taken over the town hall

FLE-Egoutiers de Paris

@egoutiersparis

3 years

A force de mépriser la classe #ouvriere elle se rebelle et se bat pour Ses idéaux! #luttedesclasses . Ls agents de la #villedeparis occupent la #mairie sans limite ! #forceetcourage a nos camarades 2 première ligne! #onestla #miserableegoutier #servicepublic #saccageservicepublic

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2 years

I think one of the interesting things about the Renters Rights Bill is going to be watching landlords pivot from “but I provide a service!” to “I cannot possibly be expected to provide that sort of service”.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

3 years

I'm one of the 100+ signatories against this bait & switch event. There were some grim takes over the weekend: that barristers must *love* debate, so trans people and their allies have no business in this job if they don't want to have their existence questioned at all times.

LGBTQ+ Solidarity at the Bar

@LGBTQBarristers

3 years

This morning, a group of over 100 barristers, pupils and students sent a letter to Middle Temple to express our profound disappointment at the organisation of the inaugural Middle Temple LGBTQ+ Forum. This is the letter in full. Please read it.

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4 years

Are we about to see the end of 30+ years of almost risk-free landlordism? I’ve written for @tribunemagazine about the coming housing crisis.

Coronavirus and the Housing Crisis

The Covid-19 pandemic is causing chaos in the housing market – but whether it leads to a property crash, a deepening crisis for renters, or even a respite in rising costs remains contested.

tribunemag.co.uk

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@NickBano

1 year

Judge: “Mr Bano, I have some sympathy for the landlord”. LL: “I don’t want your sympathy”. Judge: “Mr Bano, I have no sympathy for the landlord”.

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@NickBano

4 months

It was honestly so wonderful to take part in a rent control rally. Before last night it felt like the sort of thing that could only happen in a different century, or in a different country - well done to everyone who made it happen.

London Renters Union

@LDNRentersUnion

4 months

"The abolition of rent controls has caused a housing crisis. The simple thing we can do is bring them back." @NickBano at last night's rent control rally on the failure of Thatcher's experiment with mass landlordism.

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@NickBano

4 years

On a stormy day, there’s nothing like staying indoors in a cosy jumper and advising a whole bunch of @LDNRentersUnion members about how to screw their landlord 🍂😊☕️⛈

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@NickBano

4 years

Homelessness: the Court of Appeal has quashed Westminster Council’s decision that a family was still ‘intentionally homeless’ because their intervening accommodation had been severely overcrowded. @Lizdlabour and I represented the homeless family

Homelessness, ‘settled’ accommodation and overcrowding | News | Garden Court Chambers | Leading...

Liz Davies and Nick Bano of the Garden Court Chambers Housing Team represented the applicant, instructed by Grainne McCormack of Gillian Radford solicitors.

www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk

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@NickBano

2 months

Worth remembering that ‘intentional homelessness’ was invented to prevent queue-jumping for council flats. Things have degraded, and the problem it was designed to solve is now unimaginable. It’s a relic in a country with world-beating homelessness statistics.

David Madden

@davidjmadden

2 months

The absurd legal concept of "intentional homelessness" should be abolished. No one makes themselves homeless intentionally. It's obviously just a way for the state to evade statutory responsibility and a weapon with which to punish people who already face poverty and precarity

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

6 months

Something I’ve been really looking forward to is having these discussions about the very different-looking housing crises in Britain-that's-not-London. Please do come along & take part

Verso Books

@VersoBooks

6 months

Landlordism is at the heart of the housing crisis and British political life. What can be done? @NickBano will be visiting bookshops across the UK discussing his new book, Against Landlords: How To Solve the Housing Crisis (out 26 March).

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

3 years

My latest for @tribunemagazine , on parliamentary landlords.

Tribune

@tribunemagazine

3 years

115 MPs – 90 of them Tories – are landlords making thousands per year from privately-rented properties. The housing crisis won't be solved until that changes.

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4 months

Stuck in court all day, so I’ve been spared the replies, but overall I think it’s quite healthy that the head of the IFS has been forced to read something vaguely Marxist & get mad about it

Paul Johnson

@PJTheEconomist

4 months

Lost for words. "Terrible" is a good start. Moving homes from one sector to another doesn't create more homes. Privately rented homes have higher occupants per room than do owner occupied. As we get richer we demand more housing. We have much less of it than comparable countries.

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4 years

On the landlords’ human rights argument: they’d have to show that that suspending rents failed to strike a fair balance between their rights & the public interest. There’s a pre-existing homelessness crisis _and_ they’ve had 30 years of uncontrolled rents & capital growth.

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2 years

This is a huge class of people and it probably explains quite a lot about British society. But I think it's also important to remind ourselves that they're *not* the 1% of the 1%, and this probably affects our attitudes towards them, too.

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@NickBano

4 years

I've written this for @tribunemagazine , challenging the never-ending calls for more housebuilding.

Tribune

@tribunemagazine

4 years

The rallying cry to 'build more housing' has gained momentum across the political spectrum – but solving the housing crisis is about affordability and access, not supply. We need housing for public good, not private profit.

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@NickBano

2 months

This is pretty much on Michael Gove personally, IMO. There’ll be countless more evictions, and structural insecurity & rent-gouging will remain in place indefinitely because he couldn’t manage to pass a Bill that every single party supported 🤡

Generation Rent

@genrentuk

2 months

BBC is now reporting that the Renters Reform Bill will not be debated today, so it will fall to the next Parliament to pass these reforms. If the government hadn't allowed a minority of MPs to delay the law, renters would have a fairer deal a lot sooner

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2 years

Not difficult to understand this move. They know they can’t undermine the profitability of the rented sector just as the housing market looks so shaky & crash-prone. So it’s by no means a daft decision for them, though it’s a villainous & disappointing one.

Steven Swinford

@Steven_Swinford

2 years

Exclusive: Liz Truss is shelving Michael Gove's plans to end no-fault evictions, which were due to be introduced in this Parliamentary session The Times has been told that they are not considered a priority & could be killed off entirely, despite being a manifesto commitment

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4 years

Half of my TL is Left Twitter, the other half is housing lawyers. Suddenly they’re talking to each other and it’s awful. Like parents’ evening at school.

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@NickBano

3 months

Landlords are growing ever-wealthier because the the number of *children* in temporary accommodation is now greater than the population of York, and the state is paying through the nose for it. You honestly start to wonder why the IMF doesn't intervene in British politics.

Crisis

@crisis_uk

3 months

The latest figures out today paint a bleak picture for those of us facing homelessness. Thousands are being pushed onto London’s streets, while hundreds of thousands of children are without a safe, permanent home.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

4 years

Depressingly predictable. The government was hugely anxious to restart the property market, and it knows the evictions are an essential part of it

LandlordZONE

@LandlordZONE

4 years

BREAKING: Courts to open once more to hear eviction hearings on 29th June, solicitors are told.

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@NickBano

6 months

When we conceive of the housing crisis as a shortage, we necessarily find ourselves in an ugly discussion about migration, population and race. There are plenty of homes-per-capita, but we need to dispossess landlords and re-municipalise them

Tory social housing plan aims to prioritise ‘British homes for British workers’

Exclusive: Proposals to be put forward next month will favour UK citizens, but experts say they are likely to be illegal or unworkable

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

4 years

Spent three hours today waiting to the judge to reach a decision. Turns out he was just asleep

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@NickBano

4 years

Desmond very effectively weaponised the building social housing while lobbying Jenrick. It almost makes you think it would be better if councils built housing, instead of private developers offering them a few crumbs.

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Since the 1990s we’ve had a 7% net gain in housing stock, and yet a 300% increase in rents. But sure, let’s just keep doing the same thing and hope it gets better, instead of restoring the rent controls that Thatcher abolished.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

3 years

I’ve written about finance capital and the UK housing crisis for @tribunemagazine

Tribune

@tribunemagazine

3 years

Lloyds Bank's plan to buy 50,000 homes in the next 10 years – making it one of Britain's biggest landlords – is a symbol of everything that's wrong with our housing system.

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3 years

I'd like to think that if someone had suggested that my behaviour was racist, it would lead to some self-reflection rather than me muttering about suing her for defamation. Chardine is one of the most insightful voices about the law on here

Chardine Taylor Stone

@ChardineTaylor

3 years

Hearing the Secret Barrister is really flipping their wig over mebringing this up? Is this not them liking a tweet mocking Diane Abbott’s ability to count? The usual anti-black racist fodder because she made a mistake ONCE?

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

24 days

Continuity Thatcherism from Reeves, sadly. Which means that rents and housing costs *must* stay horrendously high.

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️

@LeftieStats

24 days

🚨 BREAKING: Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirms that the new government won't build any council homes. Reeves told a press conference: "We need the private sector to build homes. We're not going to be in the business of building those homes directly". (Source: BBC News)

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2 years

Exactly this. The economy is built on the expectation of ever-rising house prices. 51% of household wealth is made up of land value. But we're now facing a battle royal between living costs, and I really don't see how we can afford to keep meeting the price of housing.

Stan's Account

@tristandross

2 years

if there is a massive uptick in people defaulting on rent and mortgages, this would collapse the housing market, the fortunes of which are inextricably wrapped up with both our financial system and britain's pension pots; this is the stuff tories are supposed to care about!

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@NickBano

4 years

Stopping an eviction might be the most important & meaningful thing you'll do over the next few months

Tribune

@tribunemagazine

4 years

The eviction ban in England and Wales ends in two weeks. With thousands already in rent arrears, the Left has to be ready to fight for tenants who face losing their homes.

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@NickBano

1 year

Can’t tell you how nice it is when a whole bunch of people from the community turn up to support someone at their court hearing

HASL

@HousingActionSL

1 year

🥳What a great start to the week! We were in court this afternoon supporting our member Y against @SHGroupUK @optivohomes racist eviction. We have stopped their Possession Order so Optivo can't evict him for now. Thanks @NickBano for repping our member pro bono!

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@NickBano

2 years

Like, we're never going to have a serious project of de-commodification, let alone expropriation, when the average landlord is just someone's aunt.

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@NickBano

7 years

Spent the day with the incredible lawyers at @NorthKenLC supported by @Shelter . More @HLPA_UK lawyers will be here all week for free advice

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@NickBano

3 years

I’ve written about landlords & homeowners as state-backed ‘national champions’ for @tribunemagazine

Tribune

@tribunemagazine

3 years

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to extend the stamp duty holiday in Wednesday's Budget, propping up an economy that relies on ballooning property prices – and locking in the housing crisis for years to come.

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4 years

This is incredibly disappointing. There are, to put it mildly, much better ways of celebrating LGBTQ+ rights than hosting Tony Blair. There are some incredibly principled & committed human rights lawyers at Doughty Street and I know that this event doesn’t reflect them

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

4 years

This rare selfie of me & Angela Davis in a tiny car.

elle

@ellegist

4 years

what is your favourite ever photo of yourself? you’re only allowed 1, but you can be any age in it

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@NickBano

4 years

Today’s the 5th anniversary of my first ever trial. CPS prosecuted a 12 year-old for ‘stealing’ his classmate’s scooter. Acquitted. Their mums knew each other & would have made him give it back, so no intention to permanently deprive.

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@NickBano

2 years

@tristandross I think it’s actually worse than that - Moat is a housing association, not a developer. So they’re just taking away vaguely nice things from poorer communities

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@NickBano

1 year

There's now a book that you can buy about the PSED in housing law, if that's the sort of thing you're interested in

Garden Court Chambers

@gardencourtlaw

1 year

📣AVAILABLE NOW - Congratulations to @NickBano of the Garden Court Housing Team on the launch of his new book; 'A Practical Guide to the Public Sector Equality Duty in Housing', published by @lawbriefpub . #WorldBookDay2023 📚Get your copy here!

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The barristers’ strike is one of those things that feels impossible until it’s done. When we were talking about it a few years ago, while I was doing crime, it was dismissed as outrageous, impossible, irresponsible etc.

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@NickBano

2 years

It’s something of a testament to the renters’ movement that the new chief exec of Foxtons is in the FT today, talking about the company’s embarrassment & loss of pride in its work, not to mention the 90% decrease in value since 2013

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@NickBano

2 months

Legal aid lawyers' pay hasn't been increased since the John Major government. A real-terms pay cut for nearly 30 years running.

Law Centres Network

@LawCentres

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How we got here: ⚠️ 1996: the last pay rise for #LegalAid lawyers. ⚠️ 2013: many social welfare problems cut from legal aid. ⚠️ Providers give up or collapse under the burden of being underpaid. ⚠️ Vulnerable and low-income people locked out of justice.

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@NickBano

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I've reviewed 'Show Me The Bodies' by @PeteApps for the latest @SocialistLawyer magazine - physical copies should be arriving with subscribers soon

Death by ideology

‘One of the saddest indictments of this country I can think of’ tweeted Peter Apps, following the death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak from…

medium.com

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1 year

It's so frustrating watching people getting sucked in to this confected NIMBY/YIMBY discourse. This is basically how the ghouls win

Don’t fear gentrification, those new blocks of flats can lead to lower rents | Torsten Bell

Data from the US supports Keir Starmer’s push for more housebuilding in Britain

www.theguardian.com

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@NickBano

1 year

I know I *would* say this, but so much of this so-called ‘anti-social behaviour’ that they’re all suddenly panicking about can be put down to the absolutely dreadful design & build quality of British housing.

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Nick Bano

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4 months

It felt really important to have this discussion at @vocebooks last night. Would Birmingham be bankrupt if we had rent controls? As @danielcave_ pointed out, the city is about to lose virtually all of its arts & library funding - and that is intimately connected to landlordism.

Dan Cave

@danielcave_

4 months

Absolute pleasure chatting to @NickBano last night at Voce about his view on the housing crisis. As he wrote: "We can work towards decommodifying housing...we have done it before and we must do it again." Copies available at @vocebooks to buy -- get yers before they go!

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

3 years

Me Matt Hancock 🤝 “Landlords are making us ill” Housing & health for @tribunemagazine

Tribune

@tribunemagazine

3 years

One quarter of all privately-rented homes in England fail to meet basic health standards. The problem can't be solved by piecemeal reforms – only grassroots tenant organising can fight landlord neglect.

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3 years

Wishing the Shrewsbury 24 all the best! Particularly Ricky Tomlinson, who - due to an interview I once did with him - has ensured that one of the first hits when you Google me is a piece called "The judge was a gobshite".

The Justice Gap

@JusticeGap

3 years

‘It was a political trial – start to finish:’ On the day that the Shrewsbury 24 finally make it to the Court of Appeal, @RickyTomlinson_ talks to @MccraeCalum about a scandalous episode in British history and the devastating impact it had on people's lives

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@NickBano

2 years

There used to be a legally recognised excuse in the medieval period, if your landlord was bothering you with a court case: you didn’t have to deal with it if you said you were sick in bed. You could do that for up to a year-and-a-day. I wish we could bring that back.

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@NickBano

2 years

@MediocreDave Because he’s in a failed relationship with a princess.

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@NickBano

3 years

Dreadful take. I doubt anyone could give a single legal case the attention if it deserves unless they're neglecting their full-time job as an MP, and vice-versa.

Joshua Rozenberg

@JoshuaRozenberg

3 years

Why Geoffrey Cox should stand firm: We would all be the poorer if being a backbench MP became a full-time job. New post, free to read:

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Support BAILII

@BAILII

3 years

ⓝⓔⓦ Metropolitan Housing Trust Ltd v TM [2021] EWCA Civ 1890 (20 December 2021)

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

2 years

I’m pretty sure it’s the tenants that contribute that £3.6b to the economy, my guy. If that figure is even remotely meaningful.

Ben Beadle

@BeadleBen

2 years

A reminder: ✅ PRS is least subsidised housing sector ✅ Landlords contribute £3.6b to economy & typically have 1or2 homes ✅ Rents up by a modest 2.4% in the year to April (falling in real terms) ✅ Our members provide about 600k much needed homes Inconvenient facts I know.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

2 years

Earlier this year I wrote about how litigation is rarely an effective left-wing tactic. It tends to only happen when you've already lost.

The Class War Can’t be Won in the Courts

Left-wing lawfare is a growing phenomenon – but legal challenges simply can't replace the power of organised labour.

tribunemag.co.uk

Trades Union Congress

@The_TUC

2 years

We're ready.

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@NickBano

3 years

This is, on any analysis, a very important case - the British state is being asked to look at the risks that pro-Palestinian activists in Israel would face, through the lens of UK asylum law

IHRC

@ihrc

3 years

Our client - a Jewish rabbinical student from Israel - was detained & beaten for vocally supporting the struggle for Palestinian rights. He had to flee Israel. Now the UK wants to deport him back. Help him now:

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2 years

Housing white paper looks … very very good?? Going to have to find some inventive defences about the new mandatory ground for repeated arrears, but apart from that I’m dead pleased

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

3 years

On the little boxes that pass as housing these days, for @tribunemagazine

Tribune

@tribunemagazine

3 years

Everywhere you look, the housing market is producing smaller spaces for higher prices. According to the PR machine, this isn’t profiteering – it's the latest form of luxury.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

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Sometimes, I see landlords doing things that make me want to tweet stuff that would get me immediately sued and struck off.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

3 years

Hey @EHRC , you reckon this might be victimisation under section 27(2)(d) of the Equality Act?

Owen Jones

@OwenJones84

3 years

This is not a joke, but deadly serious. The Labour Party have officially placed @YoungLabour chair @JessicaLBarnard under investigation - for opposing transphobia. Here is her letter sent to NEC members - passed to me - and here are the tweets she’s being investigated for.

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6 months

NOT the most important court case of the day, obviously, but this is interesting - particularly in the context of the discourse about excluding migrants from social housing, too

Garden Court Chambers

@gardencourtlaw

6 months

📣 Excluding people with behavioural disabilities from social housing: new High Court decision 📣 Nick Bano of the Garden Court Housing Team represented the Claimant, instructed by Tracy Ball of @BHT_Sussex . Read on here 🔽 #HousingLaw #SocialHousing

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

4 months

@Telegraph @MrTCHarris So you agree - the purpose of the housing market is for landlords and house-price speculators to extract wages from tenants?

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

6 months

It is a sad & unforgivable fact that the Labour Party would rather blame migrants than landlords.

Maya Osborne

@taileepo

6 months

"Landlords need to accept responsibility not only for the housing crisis – but for our misery" @NickBano for the @BigIssue - AGAINST LANDLORDS is out in March @VersoBooks 🔥

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@NickBano

3 years

Great news that my friend & comrade @Lizdlabour has been recognised for being the outstanding lawyer she is, and will be appointed as a QC

Nicola Braganza, Mark Gatley and Liz Davies of Garden Court Chambers to be appointed Queen’s...

Garden Court Chambers is delighted to announce that Nicola Braganza, Mark Gatley and Liz Davies of Garden Court Chambers will be formally appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2022.

www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

2 years

@_____newt @libcomorg It's not so much that there's a specific ban written into law, but the absence of an immunity. Strike laws here work by conferring immunities (in very particular circumstances) from being sued for what are generally unlawful activities (breach of contract, etc.).

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

4 months

Nice to be able to see where your rent money eventually ends up going.

Vicky Spratt

@Victoria_Spratt

4 months

Vital investigation from my colleague @alexxaphillips @theipaper - 18 of the Tory rebel MPs who lobbied for pro-landlord changes to the Renters Reform Bill have received donations and hospitality linked to major landlords...some are even on their payroll

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

3 months

Your #data shows that UK homelessness is FAR worse than the US's. Your #data also shows that UK building rates are higher than the US's (and we have more homes-per-capita than they do). Surely your very own gimmick requires you to question the under-supply rhetoric.

John Burn-Murdoch

@jburnmurdoch

3 months

On 1) Relative to its population size, the UK builds fewer homes than the vast majority of other developed countries. This is why it grates when people say "but the amount of homes you’re saying we need to build is unrealistic". Our peer countries manage it just fine.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

3 years

There was a really nice meeting between @AkwaabaHackney and @HousingActionSL members last night. We talked about how to win better housing together, and about using @NadineElEnany 's (B)ordering Britain as a framework for understanding racism and housing policy in the UK.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

3 years

'Levelling up' apparently means trying to make the rest of the UK just as unaffordable as London I've written about Gove at DLUHC for @tribunemagazine

Tribune

@tribunemagazine

3 years

The newly rebranded Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is inheriting a host of crises – and with a history at the heart of the Tory machine, Gove is unlikely to solve them.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

4 years

The growth of student rent strikes is interesting because it shows how irrelevant traditional political activity (occupations, protests) has become in comparison with interfering with universities’ revenue

saranya

@sxranya

4 years

great overview of how rent strikes have been organised accross the country! 🙌🏽 (ft urs truly ✨)

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@NickBano

2 months

When rent controls were introduced in Britain, within three years they had become so effective and popular that a government commission found that the majority of *landlords* supported them.

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@NickBano

2 years

I think it also dissolves the conflict and exploitation inherent in the landlord-tenant relationship. We tend to be quite empathetic in our individual dealings with them.

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@NickBano

3 years

@Tom_Gann I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’ve been doing my job for longer than he’s been an MP, and there are so many things I’m not allowed to do because I’m too inexperienced.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

4 years

Lots of people seem to be reading (or threatening to read) Capital during lockdown, which is great. Some things I’ve learned from reading it for the first time (no theory/economics background, and I struggle with non-fiction), which might be useful:

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

2 years

To be clear: I’m not encouraging sympathy for landlords. I’m just observing that it exists as a phenomenon in the UK, and trying to think about why. The unique composition of the UK’s landlord class is surely important

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

4 years

Here's a photo essay of last year's @UFFCampaign march, published just a few months ago.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

2 years

Exactly. And I would add that - given the elision of landlords’ interests and homeowners’ interests - the role of rented housing is to transfer wealth more broadly. Across class, race, age, and regions. From the poorer to the wealthier, in each case.

Nearly Legal

@nearlylegal

2 years

The private rented sector is effectively a mechanism for transferring wealth from the younger to the older, from the working to the retired.

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@NickBano

4 years

@theemptypage_ @owenhatherley

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@NickBano

4 years

. @SouthwarkLawCen had an unsuccessful application to stay a ground 8 warrant at court duty on Tuesday. But by Friday they'd issued an emergency appeal, which got permission as it raised a point of general public importance, and stayed the warrant #lctoday

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

2 years

We can't litigate our way out of Brexit, the Tory legislative agenda, or any other political problems, really. On 'left-wing lawfare', for @tribunemagazine

Tribune

@tribunemagazine

2 years

Left-wing lawfare is a growing phenomenon – but legal challenges simply can't replace the power of organised labour.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

3 years

Had a panic when the lettings agent sent me an email headed "notice of departure". Turns out it was just that the property manager was moving jobs. God, I hate private renting.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

2 years

I think we're living through the painful, violent process of landlords finding the limits of renters' means. For decades, they've had a well-founded expectation that rents could just go up. But they just can't at the moment, and it's manifesting itself in shortages & evictions.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

6 years

The next edition of 'Socialist Lawyer' should reach subscribers in the next few days

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

2 years

Seems that the London rental market is so desperate at the moment that lettings agents are starting artificial bidding wars. May god have mercy on their wretched souls.

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Nick Bano

@NickBano

2 years

Every summer I bask in the heat and idly fantasise about becoming a winter swimming guy, but good grief

Brockwell Lido

@Brockwell_Lido

2 years

Good morning swimmers Monday pool temperature is a shocking 4.9 ❄️ We are open as normal 07:55-14:00. Last entry will be 13:30 Water in showers and toilets are all working as normal If using the car park, please drive/park carefully as there is still lots of snow around ☃️

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