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SUMMARY:Mental Capacity and Housing
DESCRIPTION:Looking at mental capacity in housing cases including litigation capacity\, injunction capacity\, the CPR;  who has power to do what on behalf of persons lacking capacity. \nPuja Desai  \nAn associate solicitor\, Puja specialises in a wide range of aspects relating to the Court of Protection and Mental Capacity Act 2005. Many of her clients lack capacity to make decisions for themselves due to dementia\, brain injury\, autism\, learning difficulties\, hoarding disorder or other mental health issues. She also assists our housing team with advice on all mental capacity related issues. \nPuja has extensive experience of making deputyship applications (both finances and welfare)\, statutory will applications\, gifting applications\, removal of deputy applications\, representing family members in Court of Protection welfare proceedings\, providing general advice in relation to the Court of Protection\, capacity related issues and Deprivation of Liberty Orders (DOLs). She has recently been recognised in the Legal 500 Directory as a key lawyer whilst the team is acknowledged as a tier 2 firm. \nHelen Tucker \nHelen Tucker is one of 4 partners leading our large housing management team in our Birmingham and Manchester offices and heads up the Birmingham based housing litigation team. \nWith over 30 years’ experience in social housing\, Helen continues to provide specialist advice to social landlords as well as charities and housing co-operatives on all types of housing-related litigation and advice relating to tenants\, licensees and leaseholders. This includes reviewing policies and procedures\, delivering training and assisting landlords with managing unreasonable or serial complainers as well as regular county court advocacy and case management. \nRanked as a Band 1 social housing lawyer in Chambers legal directory for many years\, Helen has also run numerous appeal cases on leading housing law issues. \nA previous SHLA national committee member\, Helen also sits as a Deputy District Judge in the Midlands’ circuit\, appointed in 2021 and is a trustee of a small international children’s charity. \nNon-Members – £20.00 (once registered you will be sent an invoice) \nREGISTER YOUR PLACE HERE
URL:https://shla.org.uk/event/mental-capacity-and-housing/
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SUMMARY:The Housing Ombudsman
DESCRIPTION:The Housing Ombudsman Service (“HO”) was first established by the Housing Act 1996. The powers of the HO were increased by the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023. The current 2024 HO Scheme was made under the SH(R)A 2025 and replaced the previous Scheme. \nIn this Webinar Imran Mustak (of L&Q ) and Nick Grundy KC (of Five Paper) will explain and discuss the HO’s powers under the HO Scheme 2024 and\, relying on their experience\, give guidance as to how Housing Associations and LHAs can best respond to complaints that the HO is considering. \nSpeakers: \nImran Mustak (of L&Q ) \nNick Grundy KC (of Five Paper) \nNon-Members – £20.00 (once registered you will be sent an invoice) \nREGISTER YOUR PLACE HERE
URL:https://shla.org.uk/event/the-housing-ombudsman-2/
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SUMMARY:The Relief Duty
DESCRIPTION:The relief duty was introduced to local authorities’ homelessness duties in 2017 by the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.  It is a duty to take reasonable steps to help secure that suitable accommodation becomes available for an applicant’s occupation for at least six months.  The duty applies in respect of all persons who are homeless and eligible for assistance. \nIn this seminar Millie and Michael will look at when the duty arises\, how authorities can bring it to an end\, its interaction with other homelessness provisions\, and the latest developments in the case law. \nMembers – Free \nNon-Members – £20.00 (once registered you will be sent an invoice) \nREGISTER YOUR PLACE HERE
URL:https://shla.org.uk/event/the-relief-duty-2/
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SUMMARY:Housing Mediation Protocol
DESCRIPTION:SHLA Midlands Region are pleased to invite you to join them for an in-person event on Housing Mediation Protocol. \nWe are pleased to invite you to our upcoming event on the 19th of November\, which will be hosted at the offices of Anthony Collins in Birmingham. This event will feature Tom Russell\, Mediator at St Ives Chambers\, as the keynote speaker. \nTom Russell\, has 30 years of experience in litigation\, having worked as a solicitor from 1995 to 2004\, and as a self-employed barrister since then. Since 2007\, he has also been practising as a mediator and has led over 150 mediation sessions. At this stage of his career\, Tom is focusing more on mediation\, which he considers to be the optimal form of dispute resolution. \nThe event will focus on the Housing Mediation Protocol\, a framework created by Tom Russell\, working in partnership with solicitors\, to facilitate the negotiated resolution of housing-related disputes. This voluntary protocol aims to help clients resolve issues in housing cases such as disrepair complaints\, rent arrears\, anti-social behaviour\, and more\, while avoiding the costs and uncertainties of litigation. \nTom will guide us through the various stages of the protocol\, including the opportunity for early fixed-price mediation\, the chance to engage in ongoing mediations with the same mediator\, and how it can help resolve disputes efficiently and amicably. \nWe encourage all members to attend this insightful session\, which will be followed by networking drinks and food\, providing a great opportunity to connect with fellow professionals. \nJoin us for this in-person event including networking and refreshments\, kindly hosted by Anthony Collins\, 134 Edmund Street\, Birmingham B3 2ES. \nMembers – £5.00 \nNon-Members – £15.00 \nIf you would prefer to be invoiced\, please email info@shla.org.uk. \nPlease note – tickets for this event are transferable but not refundable if cancellation is within 3 days of the event. \n\n\n\n\nHousing Mediation Protocol\nHousing Mediation Protocol\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour details\n\n\n\n    Full name\n        *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    Organisation\n        *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    Position\n        *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    Email\n        *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    Dietaries/allergies\n        *\n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    SHLA Member\n        *\n    \n    					\n			 Yes\n					\n			 No\n					\n			 No\, please send details of membershipNo\, please send details of membership\n\n    \n    \n\n\n\nSelect tickets\n\n\n\n    SHLA Member Tickets (£5.00)\n        \n    \n    \n    Select number of tickets required\n    \n\n\n	Member sub total\n		\n	\n	£\n	\n	\n\n\n    Non- Member Tickets (£15.00)\n        \n    \n    \n    Select number of tickets required\n    \n\n\n	Non member sub total\n		\n	\n	£\n	\n	\n\n\n\nAdditional Ticket details\n\n\n\n    Full name\n        \n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    Organisation\n        \n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    Position\n        \n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    Email\n        \n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    Dietaries/allergies\n        \n    \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n    SHLA Member\n        \n    \n    					\n			 Yes\n					\n			 No\n					\n			 No\, please send details of membershipNo\, please send details of membership\n\n    \n    \n\n\n\nPayment\n\n\n\n	Total due\n		\n	\n	 £\n	\n	\n\n\n	Card details\n		\n	\n	\n\n\n\n	\n	\n\n\n		\n		\n	\n\nSubmit\n\nStart Over\n\n\n	\n			\n			\n				If you are human\, leave this field blank.			\n			\n		\n		\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Risks and Rewards of AI Use in Social Housing
DESCRIPTION:This webinar will explore the legal and ethical dimensions of using artificial intelligence (AI) in the social housing sector. After a brief overview of how AI models work and their inherent strengths and limitations\, the panellists will describe some of the ways social housing providers are using AI and the benefits that AI can have for providers\, tenants\, and other stakeholders. The conversation will then turn towards some words of caution about the risks of AI use\, including those relating to fairness\, transparency\, and data privacy. The event will conclude with an opportunity for participants to ask questions of the panellists. \nSpeakers: \nJoanna Bouloux  \nJoanna specialises in advising on a range of corporate and commercial work including joint ventures\, acquisitions and disposals\, IT and commercial contracts. \nJoanna has a particular focus on joint ventures in the real estate sector which ranges from advising housing association clients to developers and local authorities. \nJoanna also advises on a wide range of IT contracts\, regularly advising both suppliers and customers of IT solutions. She regularly drafts and negotiates both standard terms and bespoke agreements\, support and managed service agreements. In addition\, she provides commercial and IT support on wider corporate transactions. \nBrendan Bernicker \nBrendan Bernicker is a practising lawyer in the United States and a barrister in England & Wales (not currently practising). He represents technology businesses in disputes and advises them on a range of issues\, including those relating to the development and use of artificially intelligent systems. Brendan previously worked as a civil rights appellate litigator at the MacArthur Justice Center and was a visiting assistant professor at Penn State University\, where he taught the law school’s first AI course and two public law courses. Brendan holds a JD from Yale Law School and both an MA in Political Science and a BA in Philosophy from Penn State. In addition to his legal practice\, Brendan works as a full-stack software developer building custom software for enterprise clients. \nJohn Fitzsimons \nJohn Fitzsimons is a versatile junior barrister who maintains a deliberately diverse practice encompassing data protection/information law\, planning/environmental law\, inquests/inquiries and general public and regulatory law. He is regularly instructed by a wide variety of public and private clients and is ranked in Legal 500 as a leading junior. \nAs well as his work at the Bar\, John sits as a non-executive director on the board of Innisfree Housing Association and regularly provides data protection training on behalf of PDP Training to a range of data protection and privacy professionals in both the UK and Ireland. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://shla.org.uk/event/risks-and-rewards-of-ai-use-in-social-housing/
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