Sharda Rozena is a PhD researcher in the field of human geography studying gentrification in her home borough of Kensington. She has published an article on displacement on Lancaster West Estate.   ..read more

Dr Matthew Bell is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of Studies for Construction Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne ..read more

David Sawtell is a barrister at 39 Essex Chambers and PhD student at Darwin College, University of Cambridge ..read more

It is now five years from 14th June 2017, a moment in time that is steeped in the memory of so many affected by the fire at Grenfell Tower. This post, accompanying a podcast recorded by the Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal, takes a look at the impact on the thousands, maybe millions, of other people trapped in the ensuing building safety crisis. This is not a problem caused by leaseholders, and yet for the last five years they have been carrying the fear and worry of living in unsafe blocks, paying unaffordable bills, wondering whether things will ever be sorted, and feeling trapped ..read more

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has recently upheld a complaint made in relation to the National House Building Council’s (NHBC) Buildmark Policy. The complaint was brought by a couple owning an apartment in a block which had a Buildmark insurance policy. The NHBC had provided the building control service and had accepted that, as there had been a breach of building regulations in respect of the external wall constructions, they would, in conjunction with the original builder, undertake the required works to the external walls. There had been already been a related First-tier Tribunal (P ..read more

Although thought of as primarily a public law issue, human rights law has a considerable, but often hidden, impact on private law. As Weston notes, the ‘Executive and Parliament – the democratically accountable branches of government – have a significant role in the protection of human rights’ particularly through the ‘requirement for ministerial statements of compatibility, introduced by section 19’ of the Human Rights Act (HRA).  Indeed, Maxwell concludes in the forthcoming book The Human Right to Property, the greatest impact of Article 1 Protocol 1 to the European Convention on Human ..read more

Philip Britton LLB BCL is a Former Visiting Professor and Director, Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution, King’s College London; former Senior Fellow (Melbourne Law Masters); co-author with Matthew Bell of Residential Construction Law (Hart Publishing, 2021 ..read more

Philip Britton LLB BCL is a Former Visiting Professor and Director, Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution, King’s College London; former Senior Fellow (Melbourne Law Masters); co-author with Matthew Bell of Residential Construction Law (Hart Publishing, 2021 ..read more

Dr Jenny Preece researches for the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, University of Sheffield ..read more

A residential building scandal that will cost billions of pounds in total to remediate is a sadly familiar story across the common law world. New Zealand is suffering what has been styled the ‘leaky homes’ scandal, whereby many houses and apartments were not able to withstand the weather, leading to rot, corrosion, mould and dampness. Australian homeowners have been the victim of their own cladding scandal, with the Lacrosse Apartment fire exposing a series of failures by several parties involved in the design and construction of a high-rise residential building. Meanwhile, in the Republic of ..read more