Housing Law Solicitors

Protecting your housing rights is a fundamental position both for tenants and landlords. At Lovell Chohan we have specific solicitors dealing with and specialising with actions and or defences on behalf of both landlords/ tenants (and Local Athorities where we are instructed to act on their behalf). We are members of the Housing Law Practioners Association. In general we deal with the following areas:

Landlords

Possession actions on accelerated procedure to obtain possession of your property only
Possession actions to recover rent arrears and gain possession and obtain a judgment for unpaid rent ( this includes actions on other grounds under the Housing Act)
Defending claims for possession
Defending claims for disrepair actions by the tenant
Eviction processes by bailiffs
Defending claims for unlawful eviction and harassment
Defending injunction proceedings

Tenants

Defending possession actions, both on accelerated possession and on grounds of rent arrears, or other grounds under the Housing Acts.
Bringing claims for unlawful eviction and harassment
Issuing injunction proceedings
Claims for disrepair
Defending bailiff’s warrants and eviction

Local Authorities

Dealing with all aspects of possession and or injunctions, anti social behaviour orders both on behalf of tenants and the Local Authorities.

Other specific areas of housing law that we deal with include;

Internal reviews & county court appeals against homelessness
Judicial review of housing policies
Service charges
Leasehold issues
Succession rights
Security of tenure
Squatters’ rights & adverse possession
Carbon monoxide poisoning claims
Rent disputes at assessment committees
Land disputes
Landlord tribunal cases

Get in touch with our housing law lawyers in London

For many years Lovell Chohan Solicitors have served the London boroughs of Slough, Windsor, Eton, Hounslow, Mayfair, Twickenham, Richmond & Chiswick. If you are a landlord, tenant or housing authority and have questions pertaining to matters of UK housing law, give us a call today or visit our offices in Hounslow, Slough & Twickenham