Simon’s work covers residential landlord and tenant work, together with a wide range of local government work.

Reported Cases

Gray v Brown [1993] 25 HLR 144

Restricted contract under the Rent Act 1977.

Saxby v McKinley [1997] HLR 569

Sentencing for breach of an injunction following unlawful eviction.

Re: Page's Application [1996] 71 P&CR 440

An application to discharge restricted covenant.

O'Brien v Croydon LBC [1998] 4 PLR 86

Concerned advertising regulations.

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council v Dunn [1996] 95 LGR 775

Acting as a pedlar as a defence to unlawful street trading.

Luton Borough Council v Ball [2001]

Council Tax Regulations.

R (Molinaro) v The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea [2002] BLGR 336
The extent of public law in local authority landlord and tenant matters.

R (Begum) v Headteachers and Governors of Denbigh High School [2007] 1 AC 100 (House of Lords), [2005] 1 WLR 3373 (Court of Appeal), [2004] EWHC 1389 (High Court)

School uniform restriction on wearing the jilbab not in breach of Human Rights Act.

Accent Foundation Ltd v Lee [2008] HLR 3

Non-party to injunction cannot waive its terms.

R (on the application of S (by his litigation friend the Official Solicitor) v Social Security Commissioner & Secretary of State for

Work and Pensions & Walsall Council [2010] 1 PTSR 1785.

Exempt accommodation within the Housing Benefit Regulations.

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