Sam’s article discusses a recent case on which he was instructed in the High Court, in which a tenant sought an emergency injunction as a result of disrepair. The Court considered (a) the application of the American Cyanimid test; (b) the propriety of and compliance with an undertaking offered by the landlord and (c) whether the High Court was the appropriate forum, concluding that the County Court was best placed to deal with the issue.
Millie explores the case of Thiam v Richmond Housing Partnership [2025] EWHC 933 (KB) in which Swift J considered the correct approach to the proportionality exercise in s.15 of the Equality Act 2010, finding that the same was an objective one, following which unfavourable treatment could be justified even if the decision maker did not find that the disability had caused the conduct.