1. Crime & anti-social behaviour: a legal update
Jan Luba QC
Housing Team
Garden Court Chambers

2. Anti-social Behaviour Act 2014: using the new tools
PART 1 Injunctions
PART 2 Criminal Behaviour Orders
PART 3 Dispersal powers
PART 4 Community protection (incl. closure orders)
PART 5 Recovery of possession on anti-social behaviour grounds
PART 6 Local involvement & accountability
PART 7 Dangerous dogs

3. Using official guidance
Home Office Guidance (July 2014)
Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014: Reform of anti-social behaviour powers: Statutory guidance for frontline professionals
Youth Justice Board for England and Wales Guidance (November 2014)
Interim YOT Practitioner’s Guide: Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014

4. Using the other guidance
The CIH: “What you need to know about the ASB Act 2014” series…
the ASB injunctions
closure powers
public spaces protection orders
grounds for possession
community remedy
dispersal powers
community trigger
community protection notices
The Local Government Association: “The Anti-social Behaviour … Act 2014: Implementing the community trigger”

5. The new Part 1 Injunctions
In force from 23 March 2015
Using interim injunctions: Bedfordshire Police v Golding (30 June 2015)
The new dimension: positive requirements (e.g. Golding Homes, Regenda Homes and others): see A new direction (Inside Housing, 5 June 2015).

6. Using other injunctions
Serious Crime Act 2015 – new approach to gang injunctions in force 1 June 2015
Statutory Guidance
Injunctions to Prevent Gang-Related Violence and Gang-Related Drug Dealing (Home Office, June 2015)
Youth Justice Legal Centre
Anti-gang injunctions (June 2015)
Using and enforcing them:
James v HM Prison Birmingham (9 February 2015)
Greater Manchester Police v Calder (14 January 2015)

7. Breach of Injunction
Contempt = Committal application (using new CPR 81)
“the [defendants] must understand, to put it bluntly, that while it is one thing to put two fingers up to the planning system, it is quite another thing to put two fingers up to the court. People who do that tend to get put inside unless there is a very good reason not to do so” Dunn
1st breach: suspended sentence
2nd breach: into prison
Seeing the results:

8. Criminal Behaviour Order
The old ‘on-conviction’ ASBO
Re-born as “CBO” on 20 October 2014
Guidance on cases already ‘in the stystem’ and on CBO terms in ‘drugs’ cases:
R v Onur Simsek (4 June 2015)
“The legislative language is a shade less clear than it was under the purely prohibitory regime of the 1998 Act”
DPP v Bulmer (31 July 2015)

9. Possession claims Changes to discretionary grounds
New “absolute grounds” for possession. (e.g. Yarlington Housing)
In practice?
Absolute Grounds for Possession – Guidance for Practitioners (Surrey Anti Social Behaviour Strategy Group)
The new Anti-social Behaviour Act 2014 what it means for landlords and tenants: Parts 1 and 2 (J. Luba)
[2014] Vol 18 L. & T. Review pp 87 and 165

10. Public spaces protection orders
PSPOs…
“are intended to deal with a particular nuisance or problem in a particular area that is detrimental to the local community’s qualify of life, by imposing conditions on the use of that area which apply to everyone. The order could also be used to deal with likely future problems”
In practice:
Dover DC (dog control, whole district)
Slough BC (drugs, access)
Newport CC (city centre, drink, begging)

11. Useful summaries (1) Anti-social behaviour- new provisions
(February 2015) Commons Library Standard Note SN06950
Anti-social behaviour in social housing (March 2015) CLS Note SN00264
an overview of the remedies available to social landlords to deal with tenants who exhibit anti-social behaviour.
Anti-social behaviour in private housing (June 2015) CLS Note SN01012
the legal position and potential remedies available where perpetrators are tenants of private landlords or owner-occupiers

12. Useful summaries (2) Litter Dangerous Dogs
(July 2015) Commons Library Standard Note SN06984
what the public and local groups can do to combat litter and the penalties available under current legislation to the enforcing authorities.
Dangerous Dogs
(June 2015) CLS Note SN04348
An overview of dangerous dogs legislation and including the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.

13. Keeping up to date
Recent Developments in Housing Law – monthly in Legal Action magazine
Housing Law Week - weekly
Twitter - daily