SC relief for long-time tenants in public buildings
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday came to the rescue of thousands of residents of houses owned by public companies by limiting the application of a tough eviction law. It clarified that the Public...
View ArticleKiller's appeal of his conviction is denied
Albany The gunman who killed University at Albany student Richard Bailey has exhausted his last appeal in New York. And unless he somehow convinces the U.S. Supreme...
View ArticleTrashers and abusers keep cheap public housing despite growing dope and...
SHE is the public housing pensioner accused of cultivating and selling marijuana and other drugs while living in subsidised homes. Then there are the house-trashers, punching holes in walls, removing...
View ArticleConCourt to hear eviction appeal case
Johannesburg - The Constitutional Court will hear an application on Thursday for leave to appeal against an eviction order. Johanna Malan, 75, is seeking to challenge a Western Cape High Court judgment...
View ArticleHigh court ruling on tenant eviction
KOCHI: Tenants won't be eligible for protection from eviction if they are not occupying the rented premises any longer, the Kerala high court held. The ruling by a division bench comprising Justices K...
View ArticleHometruths
When people let their homes out for rent, they are often letting strangers into their fold. It is only understandable that home owners are usually anxious and very particular about who occupies their...
View ArticleMatthew Massey arrested on drug charges
Matthew Massey has been extradited to NSW to face drug charges. Massey, 38, was transferred across the border after an extradition hearing in the ACT Magistrates Court on Tuesday. He applied for and...
View ArticleEvicting a tenant
EVICTING a tenant is probably one of the most difficult tasks faced by landlords of properties governed by the Rent Restriction Act (hereafter referred to as "the Act"). Quite often, a landlord may...
View ArticleSC orders eviction of JD(S) from Congress Bhavan
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has called the bluff of Janata Dal (Secular) laying claim to a part of Congress Bhavan in Bangalore citing adverse and long possession of the premises since 1977. Congress...
View ArticleState act primacy in tenant eviction: SC OUR LEGAL CORRESPONDENT New Delhi,...
New Delhi, March 11: Landlords can evict tenants under a Bengal act even if there is an agreement under the central arbitration legislation, the Supreme Court has ruled. A bench of Justices A.K....
View ArticleAppeals court overturns life sentence for Jacksonville teen convicted of murder
A Jacksonville teenager who stabbed a man to death in 2010 for $3 had his life sentence thrown out Friday by a three-judge panel of 1st District Court of Appeal. By a 2-1 decision, it ordered a new...
View ArticleIRA killer whose licence was revoked must be freed: judge
A convicted double murderer has won his High Court challenge to being returned to prison. Martin Corey is to be released on unconditional bail after a judge ruled that the Parole Commissioners breached...
View ArticlePa. woman's life term in torture-murder overturned
A state appeals court has overturned the mandatory life sentence given to a woman who was 17 when she helped several other people torture and kill a mentally disabled woman. The Superior Court ordered...
View ArticleFamily Outraged After Ole Miss Murder Case Is Overturned
WAPT.com A notorious Ole Miss murder case has been overturned. In 2005, a judge sentenced David Williams to life in prison after being convicted in the stabbing death Demetria Bracey, whose body was...
View ArticleApartment management wants to evict woman because son is in rap video
Talitha Funchess, 43, is being evicted from her subsidized apartment in the South Loop because her 20-year-old son appeared in a rap video. Actually, he appeared in a very bad rap video. Funchess has...
View ArticleUrine tests not a breach of human rights, judge rules
Testing urine from people accused of a crime to enforce drug abstinence bail conditions isn't unlawful or a breach of their human rights, a judge has ruled. ACT Supreme Court Chief Justice Terence...
View ArticleNine One One must leave Esso garages
Nine One One had sought to remain in the garages until the end of May 2014, arguing it needed that amount of time to address several issues, including the entitlements of employees. Maurice Collins SC,...
View ArticlePalmyra parent firm deemed a squatter
A court has deemed Resort Properties Limited (RPL), parent company of Palmyra Resort and Spa to be a squatter at The Palmyra, a condominium resort in Rose Hall, St James, and has ordered it to vacate...
View ArticleThe Mother Died So Housing NZ Evicted the Daughter
Saturday, 15 December 2012, 12:06 pm Article: Tony Allen The Mother, the Tenant, Died So 'Housing New Zealand' Evicted the Daughter By Tony Allen IF you live in a 'Housing New Zealand' (H.N.Z) home and...
View ArticlePierce County killers could see relief thanks to ruling
Six people who killed as children in Pierce County might get relief from their life-without-parole sentences based on a Monday ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. Mandatory sentences of life without the...
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