Tenant & Landlord Disputes

As a tenant, problems with your landlord, issues with disrepair or worries about eviction can be extremely stressful and can have serious implications on you, your family and your health.

How we can help you with your housing issue

Hopkins friendly and local housing law team can help protect your tenancy rights and represent you in court proceedings for all types of housing matters. We act for both private and council housing association tenants. We have been working in this area of law for a long time so we are very familiar with many of the landlords in Mansfield, Ashfield and Nottingham. We know which ones are problematic and will need court intervention vs which ones we can simply negotiate with.

Housing Law matters we can help you with:

• Possession claims & evictions
• Advice on notices
• Unlawful eviction claims
• Homelessness reviews and appeals
• Anti-social behaviour injunctions
• Disrepairs being ignored
• Disrepairs that cause injury or illness
• Rental deposit claims
• Transfer of tenancy agreements

How much will it cost to get legal support for your housing issue?

Free Legal Aid advice and court representation is available for some housing issues and for clients that are financially eligible. We offer a free initial Legal Aid consutlation to help you determine if you are eliglble for free legal support or if you will need to pay us privately.

The following types of housing issues could be eligible for free Legal Aid:

Possession proceedings:

• Rent arrears possession
• Warrants for possession
• Possession and injunctions based on anti-social behaviour or other breaches not involving rent arrears
• Non-secure tenancy possession
• Section 21 notice possession by private landlord
• Advice on all types of notice received from landlord
• Any other type of possession proceedings

Unlawful eviction claims:

• Application for an injunction for reinstatement
• Damages claims

Homelessness and Allocations:

• Challenging decisions relating to homelessness including refusal to accept a homeless application
• Refusal to provide temporary accommodation
• Judicial Review & County Court appeals

Other type of housing matters:

• Housing disrepair where risk of harm/risk to health of occupier
• Challenging the status of a tenancy i.e. secure or non-secure
• Succession of tenancies

You will also need to be financially eligible for free housing Legal Aid

In our initial consutlation we will determine if you financially qualify based on any of these factors:

• Be on a passported benefit (Income support, Income related ESA, Income based JSA, Universal credit) and not have savings over a certain threshold.
• Be on other benefits and employed, but have a low income to satisfy the threshold, which is calculated by your income minus deductions.

In order to compelete your Legal Aid application we will need you to bring the following as evidence of your income:

• Bank statements from the last 3 months
• Benefit confirmation letters
• Wage paid monthly: your last 3 wage slips
• Wage paid weekly: your last 6 wage slips

Book your initial consultation

If your matter is urgent please call our Housing Legal Team directly on 01623 460460. If your matter is not urgent you can also complete the enquiry form below and a member of the team will be in touch within 24 hours.