Group training (5-18 staff): Commercial rate £1,850; Standard / Concessionary £1,730 + plus trainer’s expenses + VAT
‘Excellent tuition and presentation... extremely useful.'
Welfare Rights Team Leader, Cobalt Housing
‘Really useful training. Will assist me in my job on a daily basis.'
Housing Options Officer, LB of Barking & Dagenham
Course contains
- Overview of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR)
- Possession claims for rented and mortgaged property under CPR
55 Part I
- Accelerated Procedure under CPR 55 Part II (assured shorthold
tenants)
- Drafting basic claims for possession
- Adjournments, evidence, directions, and allocation
- The range of orders the Court can make
- Housing Benefit issues and Pre Action Protocol for Rent Arrears
- Enforcement of possession warrants
- Warrant suspension applications
- Setting aside possession orders and executed warrants
- Rights of audience
- Advocacy and addressing the court (including small group
exercises)
- Overview of legal costs
Learning outcomes
After this course, you will be able to:
- Identify detailed procedural rules governing possession
proceedings under the CPR
- Complete essential documents including a claim form,
particulars of claim, and an application to suspend a warrant
- Present a claim for possession in court, or present a defence
to a claim.
Suitable for
Housing advisers, debt workers and housing officers who are
familiar with security of tenure who wish to appear in county court
possession claims, either for the landlord or the tenant, at either
the first possession hearing or subsequent hearings. Delegates must
be familiar with notice rules and grounds for possession.
Note
Pre-course reading covering claims for
possession, particulars of claim, defences, and an overview of the
CPR will be sent to delegates two weeks before the course.
Meet the trainer
Tony Martin is a solicitor specialising in landlord and tenant and housing law. Alongside his work as a trainer, Tony supervises a student led legal advice clinic and teaches law at BPP University. He qualified as a solicitor in 2001 in a private Legal Aid firm and then practised as a senior solicitor in a Law Centre.
Tony has spent all his working life in housing, having worked in hostels, special needs housing and housing management in the voluntary sector and at a senior level in a homelessness service and in housing policy for a London local authority, prior to qualifying as a solicitor. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Tony has undertaken detailed homelessness and housing options case file reviews for local authorities and voluntary organisations, as well as undertaken staff performance interviews, workshadowing and written summary reports for Shelter Consultancy since 2013.
