Call: 1989

William Okoya

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Practice Summary

William advises and represents both public sector landlords and their tenants. He is listed as a leading barrister in housing in Chambers UK and was a senior legal officer for a local authority and a legal manager for a large scale voluntary transfer RSL prior to practice at the Bar.

Housing and Property

Housing management; stock transfer; housing allocation schemes; homelessness; housing benefit; grants and subsidies; right to buy; housing conditions and disrepair; unlawful eviction.

Local Government

Constitutional and administrative regulation; framework arrangements; powers; judicial review; local government liability; human rights; standards and ethics; best value; finance; grants and subsidies; re-generation; public/private sector arrangements; contracts; procurement; acquisition, disposal and management of housing; environmental health and protection; ant-social behaviour.

Regulatory

Status; powers; regulation; contracts; acquisition, disposal and management of housing; landlord and tenant; leases and tenancy agreements; security of tenure; possession proceedings; rents and service charges; right to buy and right to acquire; housing conditions and disrepair; anti-social behaviour; human rights.

Residential and Commercial Landlord & Tenant

Residential and commercial: rent review; possession proceedings; lease renewal; rents and service charges.

Allocations

  • R (Bibi) v Camden LBC [2004] EWHC 2527 (Admin); [2005] HLR 18

Local Government & Housing

  • R (Couronne) v Crawley BC [2007] EWCA Civ 1086; [2008] 1 WLR 2762

  • Watford BC v Simpson (2000) 32 HLR 901, CA

Homelessness

  • Crawley BC v B (2000) 32 HLR 636, C.A

  • Cafun v Bromley BC Legal Action January 2001, p27, QBD (Admin Ct)

  • Bond v Leicester CC [2001] EWCA Civ 1544; [2002] HLR 6

Business Rates

  • Croydon LBC v Maxon Systems Incorporated (London) Ltd [1999] RA 286, QB

Author/co-author

  • Local Government Act 2003 (Current Law annotations)

  • RSL Finance and Rents 2000

  • Local Government Act 2000 (Current Law annotations)

  • HMOs and Management Orders in the housing section of Atkins’ Court Forms

Editor

  • Encyclopaedia of Local Government Finance: Law and Practice (2004-)

  • Journal of Local Government Law (2000)

  • Local Government Law Reports (2000)

  • Encyclopaedia of Local Government Law (1999-)

  • Housing Law Reports (1999)

  • Encyclopaedia of Housing Law (1999)

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