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Junior HLPA Conference 30th June 2023

Human Rights Start at Home:A Social Justice Conference

Junior HLPA invite you to attend a networking event on 30 June 2023 at Doughty Street Chambers, 54 Doughty St, London WC1N 2LS from 6pm to 8pm. This is an opportunity to meet students and junior members of the profession following the JHLPA conference. The conference has been organised to encourage law students to consider housing law as a profession by giving attendees an insight into the practice area and why housing law is such a vibrant and necessary field.Following the conference, the networking event will give the attendees an opportunity to meet HLPA members who can share their experiences of how they got into housing law and the important and fascinating work they do now! HLPA members will have the opportunity to meet law students who we hope will be the future social justice law and of our profession, and also to enjoy some free drinks and food courtesy of JHLPA!

If you would like to attend the networking event, please sign up using this form or email Frankie Hall at franceshall@bpp.com with your name and your current role so we can create a name tag for you for the networking event.

Open letter to the Secretaries of State for Housing and Justice – 10/10/2022

HLPA has written an open letter to Rt Hon Simon Clarke MP and Rt Hon Branden Lewis MP. We call on the government to honour its three year promise to abolish so called ‘no fault’ evictions and we also call for the instatement of an evictions moratorium.  In addition we point to the need for other significant medium and long term measures to protect renters and borrowers in the current cost-of-living crisis, a crisis which lands in the midst of a host of other longer term housing and other social crises.

Doing nothing at this moment of crisis, and the breaking of the 3-year-old commitment on ‘no fault evictions’ would be a total abnegation of leadership and responsibility.

 

Please read our letter here