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Social housing, ASB and persons unknown injunctions

Social housing, ASB and persons unknown injunctions

Natalie Kidd looks at the potential for social housing providers to tackle anti-social behavoiur by obtaining ‘persons unknown’ injunctions.

October 30, 2025

Social housing, ASB and persons unknown injunctions

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News

London borough launches legal action against Met Police and Mayor’s Office over police front counter closure

December 03, 2025

Ex-Director of Public Prosecutions to lead independent review of existing public order and hate crime legislation

November 17, 2025

Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales, with roles to be absorbed by regional mayors

November 14, 2025

Council sends pre-action protocol letter to Mayor of London and Met Police over counter closure

Nov 07, 2025

Stirling University professor named Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner

Nov 03, 2025

FDAC is facility that should be “taken seriously” in Government campaign focussing on violence against women and girls: President of the Family Division

Oct 30, 2025

Fire services should be statutory consultees for major developments: council

Oct 20, 2025

Government departments issue guidance on information sharing between police and taxi licensing authorities

Oct 15, 2025

Judge backs continuation of ‘final’ injunction over protests at oil terminal after first annual review

Sep 25, 2025

Council scraps controversial Public Spaces Protection Order banning foul language in public spaces

Sep 05, 2025

Court of Appeal refuses Epping Forest permission to appeal to Supreme Court over asylum hotel interim injunction

Sep 03, 2025

High Court refuses local authority application for extension of deprivation of liberty order for 16-year-old convicted offender

Sep 02, 2025

Home Office to appeal Epping asylum hotel decision

Aug 22, 2025

Met Police use of facial recognition technology must comply with human rights law, warns EHRC

Aug 21, 2025

Car meet attendees fined nearly £15k over public space protection order breach

Aug 18, 2025

Council seeks injunction to shut down asylum seeker hotel in bid to ease community tension

Aug 13, 2025

Police should be removed from non-policing roles in schools: Liberty

Aug 06, 2025

Many local authority staff unaware of ‘first responder’ responsibilities in tackling modern slavery, report warns

Jul 28, 2025

Councillors at Epping Forest pass motions calling for end to asylum hotels in rural areas and small towns

Jul 25, 2025

Council puts forward Public Spaces Protection Order including ban on foul language

Jul 18, 2025

Best value inspection launched at fire authority with specific focus on governance

Jul 16, 2025

Crime and Policing Bill may not provide sufficient safeguards against inappropriate use of new respect orders, Parliamentary committee warns

Jul 15, 2025

5 Essex Chambers silk named Interim Biometrics Commissioner

Jul 08, 2025

High Court injunction blocks unauthorised encampments at 12 sites

Jun 30, 2025

Borough council secures £57k in costs after defeating two licensing appeals

Jun 18, 2025

Government accepts all 12 recommendations in “damning” report from Baroness Casey on group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse

Jun 17, 2025

Government sets Spring 2026 deadline for decriminalisation of rough sleeping through repeal of 200-year-old law

Jun 11, 2025

ICO launches AI and biometrics strategy

Jun 09, 2025

London borough proposes using Public Spaces Protection Order to tackle idling cars

Jun 05, 2025

Court grants possession order to remove central London homeless encampment

May 30, 2025

Charity threatens legal action against Home Secretary and Met Police over “failure” to collect adequate data to support equality monitoring in Prevent programme

May 30, 2025

High Court allows council appeal against quashing of noise abatement notice, despite “unnecessary wording” in notice

May 22, 2025

Police and Crime Commissioner puts judicial review over "unfair" Home Office funding formula on hold

Apr 25, 2025

Met Police asks for £300k in s106 contributions to mitigate policing impact of 1,600-home development

Apr 10, 2025

Woman found guilty of breaching Public Spaces Protection Order outside abortion clinic

Apr 04, 2025

Martyn’s Law gains Royal Assent

Apr 04, 2025

Councils secure unauthorised encampment injunction but judge issues warning on site provision

Apr 03, 2025

Street preaching injunction application paused in face of challenge

Apr 03, 2025

Responsibility for fire functions transfers to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Apr 02, 2025

Borough to have first static facial recognition cameras in London

Mar 27, 2025

Landlords in Scunthorpe pursue legal challenge over proposed selective licensing scheme

Mar 25, 2025

Crime and Policing Bill to include offences of child criminal exploitation and cuckooing

Feb 24, 2025

Street racing injunction to be reviewed by High Court

Feb 20, 2025

Features

The ‘Hillsborough Bill’ – Voices for victims or just more lip service?

The ‘Hillsborough Bill’ – Voices for victims or just more lip service?

October 22, 2025

Jonathan Blunden, Alastair Lewis and Conrad Turnock talk through the recently introduced 'Hillsborough' Bill, aimed at giving victims of state injustice a meaningful voice.

ASB Case Reviews: updated statutory guidance

ASB Case Reviews: updated statutory guidance

October 17, 2025

Daryl Bigwood looks at the key changes to the statutory guidance on ASB Case Reviews and identifies their practical implications for social landlords.

Tackling youth ASB in social housing

Tackling youth ASB in social housing

October 02, 2025

Emily Hope looks at the role of housing providers and the need to balance enforcement with engagement when it comes to tackling youth anti-social behaviour.

Civil protective orders and gangs

Civil protective orders and gangs

September 26, 2025

Victoria James looks at the use of civil protective orders to disrupt gang activity.

DOLS and the Young Offender: Care or Custody?

DOLS and the Young Offender: Care or Custody?

Sep 17, 2025

Imposing the brakes on car cruising

Imposing the brakes on car cruising

Sep 11, 2025

Epping Forest in the Court of Appeal

Epping Forest in the Court of Appeal

Sep 03, 2025

The Housing Ombudsman on ASB

The Housing Ombudsman on ASB

Aug 01, 2025

Closure orders and the need for fairness

Closure orders and the need for fairness

Apr 30, 2025

Closure orders and Article 6 ECHR

Apr 01, 2025

The future of managing and preventing anti-social behaviour

Apr 01, 2025

What the Crime and Policing Bill has in store

Mar 21, 2025

New horizons for selective licensing schemes

Mar 05, 2025

Respect Orders - what do we know?

Mar 05, 2025

Positive requirements in ASB injunctions

Dec 04, 2024

Criminalising thought crime?

Nov 15, 2024

Social housing and contempt of court

Aug 07, 2024

Public disorder and possession

Aug 07, 2024

The meaning of 'anti-social behaviour'

Jun 21, 2024

Body worn camera footage

Feb 23, 2024

Dingers and anti-social behaviour

Feb 08, 2024

ASB qualifying criteria and housing allocation policies

Feb 02, 2024

Public space protection orders and abortion clinic “safe zones”

Dec 20, 2023

Should problem-solving housing courts be piloted?

Oct 24, 2023

Webinars

Awaab’s Law and Fitness for Human Habitation – the same, but different?

Max Gordon and Matthew Timm discuss the impact of the newly implemented Awaab's Law, examining the obligations of Social Landlords.

Homelessness and Social Housing Allocations (Wales) Bill: all change?

The Empty Homes Crisis

Empty Homes: Data, Policy and the Housing Crisis

Home Truths - Dissecting Section 16J: Criminal Confusion in the Renters’ Rights Bill - 42 Bedford Row

Home Truths: Grounds for Possession under the Renters' Rights Bill - 42 Bedford Row

Home Truths - The Abolition of ASTs and s.21 No Fault Evictions

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