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During the Autumn, Devonshires conducted a survey amongst finance directors and CEOs of a broad range of our Registered Provider clients to ascertain their views on strategy for housing stock.

Chambers and Partners have released their 2018 rankings and we are delighted to have maintained our Band 1 positions in Social Housing and Social Housing: Finance.

A report by regulator NHS Improvement and seen by the BBC, has suggested that “NHS hospitals could carry out 280,000 more non-emergency operations a year by organising operating theatre schedules better”.

We are pleased to confirm that the President of the Valuation Tribunal has made a Decision in favour of two Registered Providers ("the Associations"), confirming that both Associations are established for charitable purposes only for the purposes of Class B Council Tax exemption.

Although there is a long list of prescribed medications which women are advised not to take during their pregnancy, there are drugs which still fall through the net.

Devonshires’ Anna Buch recently spoke on “Regulation of the legal profession in England and Wales” at a conference which took place in Astana, Kazakhstan.

The 2017 Legal 500 Guide has been published and we are delighted to have a record number of solicitors and departments feature.

Congratulations to Martin Arnold, champions of the 2017 Devonshires 5-a-side football tournament. On Thursday 19 October 2017 we hosted the Devonshires 5-a-side football tournament; 9 teams from Devonshires, Home Group, L&Q, Martin Arnold, Poplar HARCA, Thames Valley Housing Association and Wandle Housing Association fought out a closely contested group stage. Which saw Devonshires Orange, Martin

This brings together a large number of existing datasets from across government departments, including the Department for Work and Pensions in order to provide “an essential resource in the battle to defeat ethnic injustice”.

Following a Court of Appeal decision in October 2016 (Cardiff County Council v Lee), a landlord seeking to enforce a suspended possession order, as a result of breaches of that order by the tenant, must apply to court for permission before the warrant of possession can be issued.

In July 2015, former Morrisons’ employee Andrew Skelton was jailed for fraud after leaking the payroll information of nearly 100,000 employees of the supermarket to local newspapers and data sharing websites.

We have heard this morning that President Donald Trump is not expected to certify Iran’s compliance of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between Iran and the P5+1 countries.