Jacqueline Rubens

Practice Areas

Housing: homelessness, disrepair, evictions, right to buy, anti-social behaviour, community care

Property: residential and commercial leases, boundaries, adverse possession

Planning: development, appeals, enforcement, compulsory purchase

Publications

Purchase Price in Enfranchisement Claims: How Realistic, Landlord and Tenant Review (2005) 9 L & T Rev 72

Demoted Tenancies  Part 1, Housing Law Monitor, September/October 2004 Demoted Tenancies  Part 2, Housing Law Monitor, November 2004

Introductory Tenancies  An Update, [2004] JHL 90

Seminars

Boundaries and the Law, Arden Property Seminar: 25/3/04

CPR Part 55  Practice and Pointers Arden Housing Seminar: 8/3/03

Notable cases

Circle 33 Housing Trust LTD v Kathmirkmanathan [2009] EWCA Civ 921. When considering an application for committal a judge had misdirected himself in relation to the effect of an undertaking given by a tenant to a housing association not to engage, or encourage others to engage, in conduct capable of causing a nuisance or noise. The language of the undertaking did not cover permitting or allowing antisocial behaviour to take place.

R (on the application of Chowdhury) v Newham [2003] EWHC 2387, QBD (Admin); [2004] JHL D32

Connors v Northampton BC EWCA Civ 427; [2004] 6 LAG 31 5/1/04 Northampton County Court, HHJ Mayor (Jacqueline appeared for Northampton at first instance)

Paddington Churches HA v Nazli Aydin [2003] 11LAG 13

London Borough of Wandsworth v Osei-Bonsu (1999) 1 WLR 1011 18/12/96 Wandsworth County Court, HHJ Compston (Jacqueline appeared for Wandsworth at the first instance in this eviction case)

Qualifications

1985  1988 University College London Elective subjects: EEC, Evidence, Company, Planning Degree: LLB (Hons) 1977  1982

University of Florida Degree: BA History

She is trained in direct access.

Professional Memberships

Administrative Law Bar Association
Housing Law Practitioners Association
Planning, Local Government and Environmental Law Bar Association
Property Bar Association
Social Housing Law Association