Calls to halt home repossession cases

Housing lawyers and the charity Shelter have called for home repossession cases heard in county courts to be postponed until after the COVID-19 crisis. They say people are still being summoned in block bookings to sit together in courts waiting for judges to decide on claims, despite government promise that renters and mortgage borrowers would be protected from eviction. Sue James, an expert on housing law, said: “The lord chief justice has advised that it is now inappropriate to continue to list cases in this way. Yet they are still continuing in some courts. It makes no sense for the possession cases and evictions to continue - and it is against government guidance.”

The Guardian (23/03/2020)