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18 October 2024 / Daniel Bacon
Issue: 8090 / Categories: Features , Housing , Property
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Book review: Discrimination in Housing Law

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“A tour de force of the impact of the Equality Act 2010 on housing law in England”

Author: David Renton

Publisher: Legal Action Group

ISBN: 9781913648565

RRP: £65

David Renton, barrister at Garden Court Chambers, has published a helpful new book on anti-discrimination laws. Discrimination in Housing Law is a book of eight substantive chapters, an index of precedents, and 244 pages of careful explanation of the impact of the Equality Act 2010 and related principles on housing law in England.

Published by the Legal Action Group earlier this year, this is a tour de force of the impact of the Equality Act 2010 and related principles from other anti-discrimination laws on housing law in England. The back cover features great praise from Simon Mullings, a well-known and much-respected legal aid housing lawyer. Along with the whole legal aid housing law community, I was shocked and deeply saddened by Simon’s recent unexpected and untimely death. He will be remembered for his tireless dedication to this field, his

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