Losing a home : does the current housing possession process provide effective access to justice?

Whitehouse, Lisa; Bright, Susan

Abstract

In brief: • There is a lack of joined up thinking within the housing possession process. • The amount of time and resources devoted to these cases fails to recognise the importance that occupiers attach to the prospect of losing a home, as well as the wider social and economic implications of eviction. • A working group has been set up in the Departments for Communities and Local Government to look into how the eviction process can be speeded up, but more radical reform could be needed.

Citation

Whitehouse, L., & Bright, S. (2014). Losing a home : does the current housing possession process provide effective access to justice?. New Law Journal, 164(7611), 16-17

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 10, 2014
• Publication Date: Jun 20, 2014
• Deposit Date: May 12, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: May 12, 2016
• Journal: New law journal
• Print ISSN: 0306-6479
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 164
• Issue: 7611
• Pages: 16-17
• Keywords: Housing, Housing possession process, Eviction
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/437884
• Publisher URL: https://www.newlawjournal.co.uk/content/losing-home
• Additional Information: Author's accepted manuscript of article published in: New law journal, 2014, v.164, issue 7611.
• Contract Date: May 12, 2016