The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) assesses 29 housing
hazards and the effect that each may have on the health and safety of
current or future occupants of the property. The HHSRS provides a way
that hazards can be assessed and the best way of dealing with them
identified.
This book will be a helpful guide for landlords, tenants and
Environmental Health and Enforcement Officers. It sets out clearly what
the HHSRS is, how it works in practice and what can be done about it or
to enforce the same. Landlords will also benefit from the chapters
focussing on what the enforcement notices are and how to understand
them. For tenants, the book is designed to explain the process by which
they engage Environmental Health and Enforcement Officers and what the
consequences of doing so can be for them, as well as the landlord, good
and bad. There are pitfalls each of these sets of people ought to be
aware of. Some are obvious, others less so. It is also a good book for
lawyers who work in this field and want a concise, easy to read overview
of the entire system and in legal and procedural terms how it operates
in practice.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rachel Coyle is a specialist property barrister who also works in
commercial dispute resolution and private client. She acts in all types
of commercial and property disputes, whether arising from contract,
breach of duty, or otherwise. Rachel's practice also encompasses
contentious trusts, wills, and probate (including TOLATA and Inheritance
Act claims) and insolvency.
Rachel's expertise in property and commercial law is founded on time
spent working in hedging product mis-selling, volunteering in the
procurement and commercial team at Stockport Homes, paralegal work at
law firms such as DWF LLP and on secondments at Hyde Housing and
OneSource. In the USA, she acted pro bono in property and planning
matters in the State of Virginia whilst studying for her LLM in American
Legal Studies.
Clients that Rachel has worked with include global banks, U.K.
solicitors' firms with domestic and/or international clients, a Cypriot
law firm, start-ups, private equity sponsors, local government
departments and councils, large landowners and property management
companies, charities, high net worth individuals and more vulnerable
members of society. As part of her private client practice, she assists
and represents trustees, beneficiaries and estates with inheritance and
administration-related matters
Rachel can assist with advice, negotiation, mediation and litigation to
the Court of Appeal level. Rachel has appeared in the High Court in the
Business and Property Courts, Companies Court, Queens Bench Division,
Chancery Division and Administrative Division. She has built a strong
experience in the County Court to multi track level. She also has
experience in the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) and First-tier
Tribunal (Land Registration) cases including service charges,
enfranchisement, boundary disputes, easements, breaches of covenant,
adverse possession and the Housing Act 2004.
Rachel has a developing Cyber practice and has been instructed on
numerous GDPR matters including breach of confidentiality claims,
particularly concerning claims against public bodies and banks, often
involving ECHR Article 8 private individual rights. She also accepts
instructions in a developing area of interest, Equine Law.
