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We are pleased to have acted for a London based housing charity for a claim for unjust enrichment relating to the profits made by their tenants following the subletting of their property on Airbnb. The tenants were ordered to pay our client £18,000 relating to the profit made, together with an order for our client’s legal costs.

We're delighted to welcome Baljit Basra who joins Devonshires as a Partner increasing our total number of Partners to 55.

On Monday 20th March, twelve new Trainee Solicitors joined the firm bringing our current total Trainee Solicitor count to 33.

As Corporate Partners of The Sutton Trust, a leading organisation in the social mobility space in the UK, we were fortunate enough to have hosted work placements for 6 young individuals earlier this month.

We're delighted to have hired two experienced lawyers to further strengthen our growing Leeds office!

The new Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 (‘FSR’) are now in force.

Devonshires is delighted to have acted for Optivo and Southern Housing Group Limited (SHGL) on their successful amalgamation to form Southern Housing.

Jeremy Hunt has announced that social and affordable rent increases will be capped at 7% as of April 2023 for a period of 12 months to combat the cost of living crisis and in response to “unprecedent global headwinds” the country is facing.

Social rents in Wales will rise by a maximum of 6.5% from April 2023 under a new settlement announced by the minister for climate change, Julie James.

The Housing Ombudsman has issued a call for evidence to support its next investigation which will look at record keeping and data management.

In September a consultation was issued on a proposal to extend the landlord's no-fault notice period required for converted periodic standard contracts under the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (RHWA 2016) from two months to six months.

We are delighted to have retained all of our newly-qualified solicitors for the fourth consecutive year.