Kevin Long

Solicitor @hackneylawcentr specialising in housing/homelessness
Supporter @leytonorientfc specialising in forbearance

[Miranda Grell @MirandaGrell]

Amazing to be @LALYawards as a friend of #LALY25 & also cheer on my friend, former @HackneyLawCentr colleague, instructing solicitor & fellow #LOFC fanatic @kplong1! Also fab to catch up with brilliant @symeonbrown. Thank you again @FionaBawdon, Chris Minnoch & all the team!👏🏾👏🏾

[Kevin Long @kplong1]

@LALYawards Congratulations Rachel, very well deserved

[Hackney Community Law Centre @HackneyLawCentr]

CASE UPDATE:

Switaj v McClenaghan [2024] EWCA Civ 1457

Judgment has now been handed down in the Court of Appeal leapfrog appeal of Switaj v McClenaghan, in which we acted for the appellant Ms Switaj.

Read our statement here:

#Tenants
#TenantFeesAct

https://t.co/ywIIIbTntr

[Kevin Long @kplong1]

Back from duty solicitor session today. Tried to do things the way Simon did things which was invariably the best way to approach life in court, and life in general.

[Kevin Long @kplong1]

@tony_calvin Sorry to read this Tony - feels like one of my Cheltenham pals has decided to call it a day and told the rest of us to go it alone next year - but very best of luck with your future plans.

[Hackney Community Law Centre @HackneyLawCentr]

Councils move hundreds of homeless families out of London with 24-hour ultimatums https://t.co/oJMmPiykIH

[Kevin Long @kplong1]

@DaveHill Dave this is an incredibly ill-judged contribution especially from someone who claims to be an expert on life in London where the tensions Chris writes about are often seen at their worst.

[Hackney Community Law Centre @HackneyLawCentr]

We're at the @Carers_first #CarersRights drop-in session in #Hackney today! If you're a carer or know someone who's a carer and would benefit from some free and independent #legaladvice, do come down!

[Kevin Long @kplong1]

@willfordosblaw @HackneyLawCentr @jimrobottom ...and if the PRSO review succeeds we are finding that the LA will treat the accommodation as 193(2) TA by 'default' and leave the client there. The remedy? Another 202 review, of the same property/location.

[Hackney Community Law Centre @HackneyLawCentr]

🧵 We are dealing with increasing numbers of out-of-London PRS homeless offers to increasingly distant locations. A short thread on how our advice to homeless families when dealing with these offers has evolved.

[Kevin Long @kplong1]

Thanks to @tamlyn_monson @CTPSR_Coventry for invitation to speak at this event and share the experience of @HackneyLawCentr working with displaced homeless applicants #ForcedMoves

[Tamlyn Monson @tamlyn_monson]

Inspired by lived and work experiences of #ForcedMoves in the UK shared by Hafiz, Suzanne, Kevin and Signe at today’s @ReROOT_Project /@CTPSR_Coventry workshop on Housing and Non-Voluntary Mobilities. Thank you to @Brighter_Praxis @HackneyLawCentr & @justlifeuk

[Hackney Community Law Centre @HackneyLawCentr]

“Sadly we will continue to see distant private sector accommodation used to house homeless families. In practice it is often single parent households, and therefore single mothers, that experience the worst of this." @wfecho

https://t.co/NKPp4sRXws

[Hackney Community Law Centre @HackneyLawCentr]

Disappointing that the Court of Appeal has dismissed our appeal in this case involving the rehousing of homeless families out of London. We had argued that LBWF's reliance on the benefit cap as a means to relocate single parent households breached EA 2010: https://t.co/GxF50BgjqB

[Hackney Community Law Centre @HackneyLawCentr]

🚨 PRESS STATEMENT 🚨

Court of Appeal update (Webb-Harnden (claimant/appellant) v London Borough of Waltham Forest (defendant/respondent).

Our @kplong1 instructed @AmritpalBachu led by @k21fem KC.

Read our statement on yesterday's hearing here:

https://t.co/26EBYbFISy

[HASL @HousingActionSL]

Huge HASL support outside court today for this landmark homeless case!

🗣️@wfcouncil stop forcing homeless families out of London!

👩‍👧‍👧Every child needs A Home Close to School!

👏Thank you @HackneyLawCentr and the mother for taking this important case.

[Hackney Community Law Centre @HackneyLawCentr]

Today, we are in the Court of Appeal. Case will address whether LB Waltham Forest's practice of rehousing all benefit-capped homeless applicants outside of Greater London breaches Equality Act. #LCtoday @kplong1 @LawCentres

[Alex Croft @alxcroft]

🚨 A disabled Ukrainian man has won £13k in Pension Credit from @DWPgovuk, who 'ignored' his application.

Recently, the DWP also ignored a woman they owed £3,500.

They only paid up after a legal threat from @dianemorrison66

Is it a trend? Read here👇
https://t.co/RXAxVCrzc9

[LegalAction magazine @LegalActionMag]

'Planning decisions have social justice implications for both current and future generations, and involve socio-political judgments that create winners and losers.'
@JOgilvieHarris on the importance of #planning work: https://t.co/x6bLeIN0BU
@SouthwarkLawCen
@PILC

[Safer Renting @SaferRentingCH]

Huge win for Safer Renting.

Our priority policy recommendation in our report 'Journeys through the shadow private rented sector' has been included in the Renters Reform Bill !

The changes place a duty, not just a power on local authorities to investigate breaches of the PFEA.