CPD 1.5 hours
PEAT Outcome - Relevant legal knowledge
OBJECTIVES
This webinar will be on the Homeless Persons (Unsuitable Accommodation) (Scotland) Order 2014 covering the standard of temporary accommodation local authorities in Scotland have a duty to provide. It will touch on:
- When the duty to provide temporary accommodation arises
- Definition of unsuitable accommodation
- Exceptions to the standard
- Intentionally homeless applicants
- Remedies for unsuitable accommodation
DELEGATES
This Zoom webinar will be of interest to trainee solicitors, newly qualified solicitors, and anyone seeking a comprehensive refresher on key legal topics.
SPEAKER
Hazel Bon, Solicitor, CLAO
The Civil Legal Assistance Office "CLAO" is a network of four offices in Scotland that helps people with specific civil legal problems. The offices cover Edinburgh and Lothian, Highlands and Islands, Argyll and Bute, Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. Hazel Bon studied Scots Law at the University of Dundee, and the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice at the University of Edinburgh. She completed her traineeship at Legal Services Agency’s Mental Health Legal Representation Project for Edinburgh and the Lothians. Thereafter she worked in private practice, practising in the fields of personal injury, and medical and professional negligence. Hazel then started working at CLAO Edinburgh in 2012 and she is currently employed as a senior solicitor, mainly practicing in the areas of housing and homelessness law.
