Beatrice Prevatt

Practice

Beatrice practises in all areas of housing including homelessness (County Court appeals and judicial review); Children Act and Community Care accommodation duties, accommodation issues for asylum seekers, security of tenure, illegal eviction and harassment, statutory nuisance prosecutions and disrepair. Beatrice is particularly interested in defending possession proceedings

Publications

Beatrice contributes to Legal Action and Current Law.

Training

Beatrice provides training for the Independent Housing Ombudsman, and provides training and telephone advice for the Chambers contract with the Legal Services Commission.

Societies

Housing Law Practitioners' Association and Legal Action Group.

Other activities

Beatrice worked at the Southwark Law Centre for eight years (1987/1995), specialising in housing and immigration cases. Whilst there she set up the Lambeth County Court duty rota scheme for possession cases and was involved in negotiating the terms of the Southwark Council tenancy agreement. She was also a director of the National Housing Law Service.

Notable Cases

R v Newham LBC ex p Begum [1999] 32 HLR 808 (homelessness)

R v Southwark LBC ex p Vantansever [2001] EWHC Admin 546 (allocations)

R (McLellan) v Bracknell Forest DC & Reigate & Banstead BC v Benfield & Forrest [2001] EWCA Civ 1510, [2002] QB 1129 (introductory tenants and the Human Rights Act)

Smart v Sheffield CC & Wilson v Central Sunderland Housing Company [2002] EWCA Civ 4, [2002] HLR 17 (non-secure tenants and the Human Rights Act)

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