We can help landlords, tenants and residential occupiers who have problems such as repossession, illegal eviction, disrepair, environmental protection or homelessness. We also offer general tenancy advice.

Contact us for advice on :

• Disrepair actions in the County Court against local authorities,
• Housing associations and private landlords
• Prosecutions under the Environmental Protection Act in the Magistrates Court
• Homelessness cases
• Possession cases, including applications to set aside possession
• Orders and suspend warrants for eviction
• Defending mortgage possession proceedings
• Illegal eviction and harassment cases
• Allocations of council housing on the housing register and
• Transfer applications
• Advice to Council tenants on assignments and succession rights
• ASBO (Anti-Social Behaviour Order)

   

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  'Wainwright & Cummins advises on all aspects of social housing law. The team represented the applicant in the successful appeal case of Mondeh v Southwark LBC, concerning questions of intentional homelessness. 'Very knowledgeable and committed' department head Emma Prescott'.