what's new? 

Ellie Bruce's new art exhibition opens at the Bear and Ragged Staff, Cumnor near Oxford on Saturday September 11th.   For details see www.eleanorbruceart.co.uk .

September marks the 25th anniversary of the first time that Legal Action published Recent Developments in Housing Law.  Jan Luba and I have written the column ever since.  To mark the occasion, September's Legal Action includes a fascinating review of trends in housing law over the last 25 years, written by John Gallagher of Shelter.  For information about Legal Action magazine, go to http://www.lag.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=88852

Recently, I have added to this web site   

  • A new folder of photos - one world one view 9 - which includes portraits which I have taken over the last year in Xingjiang (China), the Kurdish Regional Governate (Iraq) and Java (Indonesia).  I have revised the index so as to list the portrait photos by country.
  • Photos of Borobodur Temple and Bromo Volcano on Java, Indonesia.  Java 2010
  • June and July 2010 Recent Developments in Housing Law from Legal Action magazine.
  • A new index to Recent Developments which includes cases in August 2010’s Recent Developments in Housing Law from Legal Action magazine.
  • An updated version of the summaries of all cases on Tenancy Deposits and Housing Act 2004 which includes the Court of Appeal decision in UK Housing Alliance (North West) Ltd v Francis and three county court decisions, Baafi v Mapp, O’Brien v Jones and Green v Sinclair Investments Ltd.  
  • A new jury direction dealing with some of the elements of sexual grooming.

The Ministry of Justice have placed an article about me, travel and photography Global Life Through a Lens on their judiciary web site – you  can see it by following this link http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/judges-magistrates-and-tribunal-judges/features/life-through-lens  

The 7th edition of Defending Possession Proceedings is now on sale from the Legal Action Group.