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Reviewing licensed premises

Gerald Gouriet QC considers how long interim steps taken by a licensing authority should remain in force

Supreme Court to decide on solar panel subsidies

Energy secretary cannot remove entitlement 'without statutory authority'

Immigration update

Jane Coker considers several cases highlighting the tensions between domestic and European immigration laws

Of mice and clients

Your client smells, needs emergency assistance to avoid being kicked out of his council flat overnight, and will not say thank you. Russell Conway opens his housing lawyer diary

'Air of unreality' in equality arguments over library closures

An appeal judge has attacked the “air of unreality” in equality arguments put forward by campaigners against the closure of six of the 12 public libraries in Brent, London.

Councils lose challenge over houses in multiple occupation

Three local authorities have lost a judicial review challenge to a government decision to scrap planning permission to convert single dwellings into houses in multiple occupation (HMOs).

Planning update

Julian Boswall and Laura Fuller review the Localism Act, another twist in the Cala Homes saga and a decision on environmental permitting and appropriate assessment

You've been framed

The government claims the National Planning Policy Framework will give neighbourhoods more decision-making power, but it is more likely to give the green light to crafty developers looking to push through questionable developments, says David Stephens