Homelessness and Allocations

Andrew Arden QC is a full-time practitioner and head of Arden Chambers, London. He is a pioneer of housing (and homelessness) law, and has acted in many of the leading cases in addition to his writing. He is the general editor of the Housing Encyclopaedia, the Housing Law Reports and the Journal of Housing Law, as well as co-author of Arden and Partington's Housing Law, the Manual of Housing Law, Local Government Finance Law and Local Government Constitutional and Administrative Law (all Sweet & Maxwell).Caroline Hunter is a barrister at Arden Chambers in London and senior lecturer in housing law at Sheffield Hallam University. She is deputy general editor of the Journal of Housing Law (Sweet & Maxwell). She is joint author of Housing and Human Rights Law (LAG) and Arden and Partington's Housing Law (Sweet & Maxwell).Lindsay Johnson is a barrister at Arden Chambers, London. His practice covers the full range of chambers' specialist areas, with an emphasis on housing - particularly homelessness - and local government/public law work. Lindsay is an editor of the Housing Law Reports, a digest editor of the Journal of Housing Law and a consultant editor of the Housing Encyclopaedia (all Sweet & Maxwell).

Homelessness and Allocations has been updated to include:the new DCLG Homelessness Code of Guidance 2006a new set of preliminary precedents in the enforcement chapter: sample documentation for issuing a homelessness appeal in the county court and the materials necessary to issue a judicial review in the Administrative Courtthe latest developments on eligibility and priority needa revised chapter on decisionsmany new cases and their implications, up to and including Robinson v Hammersmith & Fulham LBC on mediation in cases involving 16- and 17-year-olds