Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Law
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Module Offerings
7412LAWLP-JAN-MTP
Aims
The module is designed to equip students for work in a solicitors’ practice in the following areas:
• Rights, responsibilities and remedies of residential tenants (apart from long-leaseholders) and their landlords;
• The duties of local authorities to those who are homeless or otherwise in need of alternative housing;
• Claims for possession against residential borrowers by secured lenders.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Advise residential occupier, landlord, secured lender or local authority on common issues arising in housing law
2.
Plan the steps involved and draft key documents relating to commonly encountered proceedings in housing law
3.
Prepare and present arguments in simple hearings commonly encountered in housing law
4.
Identify and deal with ethical and professional conduct issues which arise in the context of housing law
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:• Types of tenure
• Security of tenure for residential tenants
• Possession proceedings where tenant has limited security
• Possession proceedings on rent arrears grounds
• Anti-social behaviour
• Unlawful eviction
• Disrepair and other defects in rented residential premises
• Homelessness
• Allocation of rented social housing
Additional Information:Students taking this elective are assumed to have a basic knowledge of leasehold tenure and of civil litigation.
This is an elective on the LPC as dictated by the relevant professional bodies.