Angharad is a housing law specialist and is currently developing a practice in education law.
Housing Law and Community Care Law
Overview
Angharad is a housing law specialist having worked in this area prior to joining the bar when employed by the Hackney Community Law Centre. She regularly conducts work across all areas of housing law, including homelessness, allocations, possession, disrepair, in addition to accommodation related aspects of community care law. Angharad’s comprehensive and in-depth knowledge of housing law enables her to provide practical advice and creative solutions in complex cases.
Angharad is ranked for Social Housing as a Rising Star in the Legal 500 2024.
Angharad speaks regularly on a range of subjects at Garden Court Chambers' seminars and webinars.
Notable Cases
R (Saint Sepulchre) v Kensington & Chelsea RLBC [2023] EWHC 2913 (Admin): Angharad was part of a team of Counsel representing a vulnerable disabled homeless applicant to the Defendant local housing authority in a successful judicial review of a refusal to accommodate him pending review under section 188(3)Housing Act 1996. Angharad successfully represented the same client in subsequent appeal proceedings under section 204 Housing Act 1996, including an urgent appeal of a refusal to accommodate pending appeal under section 204A of that Act.
Richworth Properties Ltd v Billingham [2023] EW Misc 8 (CC) (14 August 2023): Angharad epresented the Defendant in section 21 possession proceedings, and was led by Liz Davies KC in a County Court appeal in respect of whether the Defendant’s tenancy deposit had been returned in circumstances where the landlord had put a cheque under the door but it had not been cashed. The appeal was successful, and the matter was remitted to the County Court for case management. Angharad was later successful in obtaining a strike out of the Claimant’s claim due it being pursued notwithstanding a subsequent possession order under section 21. She has also authored a Lexis Nexis practice note on this case with consideration of its practical implications.
Mekonen v LB Waltham Forest, County Court at Central London, 8 August 2022: Angharad acted for the Appellant in an appeal under section 204 Housing Act 1996 in respect of a decision discharging the main housing duty owed her on the basis. The appeal was successful with the Court finding that it was irrational for the review officer to hold that Ms Mekonen had understood the consequences of refusal in circumstances where she did not speak English and had only been provided the information in English (without translation or interpretation).
LB Lambeth v Fanfair, County Court at Clerkenwell & Shoreditch, 14 February 2023: Angharad successfully defended an application for an anti-social behaviour injunction, where the Defendant alleged that the complaints were as a direct result of poor sound insulation between her flat and the others in her building. Lambeth’s application was struck out after lengthy pre-trial proceedings in which Lambeth were mandated to obtain expert evidence in respect of sound transmission.
