{"id":687,"date":"2020-02-17T15:35:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1215.london\/?p=687"},"modified":"2024-11-01T11:57:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T11:57:50","slug":"court-of-appeal-gives-guidance-on-late-homelessness-appeals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/2020\/02\/17\/court-of-appeal-gives-guidance-on-late-homelessness-appeals\/","title":{"rendered":"Court of Appeal Gives Guidance on Late Homelessness Appeals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=1215Law\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/our-barristers\/richard-osullivan-l-l-m-mciarb-barrister-ew-1999-mediator-arbitrator-adjudicator\/\">Richard O&#8217;Sullivan<\/a> appeared for the successful appellant in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/EWCA\/Civ\/2020\/51.html\">Al-Ahmed v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council [2020] EWCA Civ 51<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Court of Appeal gave important guidance on when permission should be granted for a homeless applicant to bring a s204 Housing Act 1996 appeal outside of the 21-day time limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color\">The Appeal overturned the High Court decision which had found that the requirements  of bringing a homelessness appeal were not \u2018especially sophisticated or  taxing\u2019 and therefore there was not a good reason why Mr Al Ahmed could  not have issued the appeal as a litigant in person during the time  limit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard O&#8217;Sullivan appeared for the successful appellant in Al-Ahmed v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council [2020] EWCA Civ 51 The Court of Appeal gave important guidance on when permission should be granted for a homeless applicant to bring a s204 Housing Act 1996 appeal outside of the 21-day time limit. The Appeal overturned the High<a href=\"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/2020\/02\/17\/court-of-appeal-gives-guidance-on-late-homelessness-appeals\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[57,53,55,49,51],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-press","tag-ahmed-v-tower-hamlets","tag-appeal","tag-court-of-appeal","tag-homelessness","tag-s204"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1215.london\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}