Justin Bates KC to give evidence to Parliament

The Renters’ Rights Bill promises to introduce the most significant reforms to residential landlord and tenant law in England since 1988. Presently, it envisages the abolition of s.21, Housing Act 1988 (“no fault”) evictions and the entire assured shorthold tenancy regime. Contractual rent increase clauses will be of no effect and the FTT will assume a rent setting role not seen since the days of the Rent Acts. The rogue landlord provisions of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 will be further extended and numerous consequential amendments will be needed, not least to homelessness law and how local authorities discharge their housing duties.

Justin Bates KC is the editor of the Encyclopaedia of Housing Law and the author or co-author of numerous other housing law text books, including the recently published 13^th Edition of Homelessness and Allocations (here). He has co-written two Private Members Bills, both of which are now law (Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 and Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023). He has been invited to give evidence on the implications of these reforms at the Committee Stage of the Bill on 22 October 2024.

The proceedings will be live-streamed and can be found here.