MSB’s Social Housing Highlight – December 2024

TRAINING

We have launched an online legal surgery – MSB Live! Hosted by the team, this monthly session allows your legal queries to be answered, ranging from housing, asset and property management, to governance and ASB.

Free monthly webinars have also been hosted by the Social Housing Team, enabling clients to engage in a variety of online training sessions which cover different areas of Housing Law. To be added to the mailing list for these webinars please contact dominiqueowens@msbsolicitors.co.uk.

LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS

There have been some big legislative developments in 2024, including the Renters’ Rights Bill progressing to its second reading in Parliament, and changes to Right to Buy discounts. We have helped social housing providers navigate through these changes with our weekly articles, monthly newsletters, MSB Live and webinars. For a condensed round up of all the major housing updates in 2024, please see the December 2024 monthly webinar.

ARTICLES

The Social Housing weekly articles and monthly newsletters aim to keep you updated with changes in legislation and case law. They also provide top tips for dealing with housing law issues.

EXPANSION

This year MSB has opened two new offices in Birmingham and Chester. Within the Social Housing team, we have welcomed three new paralegals, two solicitors, two legal assistants and two trainee solicitors! These individuals have been great additions, and we are excited about our ever-growing expansion, both firm-wide and within the team.

CLIENTS
We have welcomed a number of new clients in 2023, working with even more registered providers of social housing, whilst also continuing to expand our Private Landlord work.

CHARITY

MSB are always looking for ways to support the causes that we care about. The Social Housing team has engaged with numerous charity events this year, raising crucial funds for a variety of charities. To name a few, we have held coffee mornings to raise money for Hoarding UK, collected Easter Eggs for a local food bank, entered a team into the Women in Property Step into Summer challenge as well as raised money for Bradbury Fields who offer support services to those living with sight loss and gifted toys to the Cash for Kids Mission Christmas. We love supporting great causes, so if you have any projects you would like us to get involved with, please contact thomasstockton@msbsolicitors.co.uk.

CELEBRATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

We have had multiple promotions this year! Beth Hyams, Julia Michalczyk and Dominique Owens have been promoted to Associate. Abigail Eves and Alicia Manchester have been successful in securing training contracts at MSB. A massive well done to them all!

It has been an award-winning year for MSB Social Housing – Amy Tagoe attended the Women in Social Housing Awards Lunch and was the regional winner for the North West, MSB were shortlisted for the supporting young talent award at the Merseyside Junior Lawyer Division and we were ranked in the Legal 500 in tier two with Louise Murphy being recognised as a Next Generation Partner and Amy Tagoe being recognised as a Leading Associate – Philip Coburn, Andrew Fairman, Andy Moore, Beth Hyams and Thomas Stockton were also recognised as key lawyers. We were also ranked for the first time in Chambers and Partners with Louise Murphy also being ranked. MSB solicitors has been recommended in the Times Top 250 Solicitors Firms. We are so proud of the team for these wonderful achievements.

We celebrated many events in the firm through fundraising and lots of good food including International Women’s Day, Pride, Black History Month, South Asian Heritage Month, International Men’s Day and Diwali.

EVENTS

Abigail Eves arranged a fantastic event alongside Bradbury Fields to raise money for their organisation. We attended networking events with pro-Manchester and a number of events celebrating International Women’s Day. Louise Murphy spoke at the Westminster Insight’s Housing Complaints Conference as well as attending, alongside Beth Hyams, the NHF Virtual Board Network. We also brought our MSB Live to the Housing Summit held in Liverpool. MSB also attended the Christmas Networking Event, and arranged for special guests Santa and Elf to attend the Women In Property North West Bubbles and Baubles event. These are just a few of the events that we have attended and arranged this year, all of which have been a great success!

What is in store for 2024?

We will be continuing to keep you updated with weekly articles on changes in legislation, case law updates and helpful tips, MSB Live and our free monthly webinars. If you would like to book your place, please contact dominiqueowens@msbsolicitors.co.uk.

As always, the team is also available for bespoke training, so please do get in touch if you would like to find out more.

Please note: Our offices will be closed from 5pm on 20th December 2024 until 9am on 3rd January 2025. We will be available to deal with arrests during this time. Please use our out of hours contact number of 07516508387.

Thank you!