The concise and easily understood commentary is supported by specimen service charge clauses, model accounts, notices and certificates making this book an invaluable and immensely practical guide to this difficult subject.

Service Charges: Law and Practice
Authors: Philip Freedman, Eric Shapiro and Brian Slater
Jordan Publishing
Price: £45.00
ISBN: 978 1 84661 041 7

Anti-Social Behaviour Law

Stamping out anti-social behaviour is a high-profile Government target. Government initiatives have resulted in a mass of recent legislation including the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003, the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005, and the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, which overlay existing legislation such as the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and the Housing Act 1996.

Those who are tasked with tackling anti-social behaviour can only do so effectively if they have answers to the following questions: What legal remedies are available to tackle anti-social behaviour? Which legal remedy is the most suited to tackle the problem at hand? Who can bring proceedings? Is it a civil or criminal matter? This new work aims to answer these questions by providing a comprehensive guide to the legal framework in which Local Authorities, the Police, RSLs and others can use to deal with anti-social behaviour.

This includes consideration of the decision- making process and the need to take into account an authority’s other statutory duties or powers as well as evidential considerations. It covers general powers to deal with anti-social behaviour as well as specific powers to tackle particular problems.

There are also sections dedicated to landlords’ and landowners’ remedies (possession, trespass etc.), the maintenance of the local environment, and the difficult issue of dealing with children and parents.

Useful appendices include up to date statutory provisions, a list of ASBO prohibitions, and Government guidance and relevant websites

Anti-Social Behaviour Law
Authors: Greatonex P., Falkowski, D.
Jordan Publishing Ltd
Price: £49.00
ISBN: 1846610028

Cohabitation and Trusts of Land

The Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (TLATA) is the legislation used to determine interest in and occupation of property where matrimonial law does not apply.

This work explains practice and procedure in TLATA work for family solicitors engaged in property disputes between cohabiting or other unmarried couples. It explains the legal concepts that apply in unmarried family breakdown situations, and explains the orders the court can make, who may apply and what the court must consider. It sets out the procedures for preparing and making applications and explains the relevant law.

It features a practical civil court reference section, written for those practitioners more familiar with the family court and uses checklists to help ensure nothing is overlooked.

Cohabitation and Trusts of Land
General Editor Stephen Wildblood, QC
Authors: Elizabeth Darlington,
Christopher Wagstaffe.
Laura Heaton.
Sweet & Maxwell.
Price: £95.00
ISBN: 0421907304 / 9780421907300

Five Flights Up And Other New York Apartment Stories

A flop house, a pumping station, a maid’s room, a homeless centre, a former brothel, a Richard Meier building, a circus trailer, a sail boat, a skyscraper, a basement, an attic, buildings named Esther and Loraine – just a few of the places New Yorkers call home.

For the past eight years writer Toni Schlesinger has been bringing us these conversation places in her weekly column in the Village Voice. Through her incisive questioning, original writing, and comic parallel reveries, Schlesinger creates miniature documentaries on the lives, passions, hopes, and heartbreaks of many of New York City’s millions.

Five Flights Up chronicles people living in New York’s extremes, occupying 150-square-foot spaces, paying over half their income for rent, living eight in an apartment, and taking showers in twos to save time.

These are people who make movies in their living room and then sleep in it later. In Schlesinger’s hands, their stories are much more than novelties.

Five Flights Up And Other New York Apartment Stories
Author: Toni Schlesinger
Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1568985851