CLP is an award winning firm of solicitors specialising in the law relating to Housing, Public Law and Traveller Law. Winner LALY Legal Aid Firm/NFP 2017
May 21, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Our client was shot in the head, on his way to work, outside his home. His small children were inside. His wife heard the shots and found him on the ground outside. She cradled him until the ambulance came. He thought he was going to die. 1/11
While he was in hospital Birmingham City Council placed his wife and 3 children in one room in a B&B. When he was discharged from hospital he joined them there. He tried to make a homeless application to BCC, on the grounds that 2/ 11
Mar 29, 2018 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Tuesday afternoon, our housing team were all out of the office being trained re the Homeless Reduction Act, which comes in to force next week, when the mayday call came in. A street homeless family in the waiting room at 3.30 pm. One of our partners hot foots it back to base 1/17
Mum and Dad, twins aged 3, and a 5 month old baby had been evicted from a Birmingham City Council hostel the day before, without notice
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