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Solicitor. Done housing law since 2006. The Guardian says top 5 for squalor. Legal Aid Housing Lawyer of 2018. Co-author of Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018. ‘Not an academic authority’ - Judge Carr. https://nearlylegal.co.uk

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 7h

Interesting. We will have to see how attempts are made to exploit this.

The Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 8h

🆕 BREAKING NEWS

We won❗🎉

The Government has finally accepted Lord Young's amendment to the Renters' Rights Bill.

Shared owners who are accidental landlords will be exempt from the 12-month ban on reletting if their sale falls through.

#BuildingSafetyCrisis

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 8h

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 8h

Oh god...

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 14h

“We were therefore surprised when the client later sought to withdraw aspects of their evidence at the hearing.” 👀😳

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Law firm hits back after housing disrepair wasted costs order

A Liverpool law firm has hit back strongly after being criticised by a council which obtained a wasted costs order over its conduct of a housing disrepair claim.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 14h

I was only following orders...

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 15h

But what I set out there was your original proposal.

How can you check the output if it is in a field you have no experience in?

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 15h

‘Basically it is fine if asked to only refer to a very limited data set, so long as you check every citation for actually existing, and check that the citation actually supports what it said it does, and check whether any conclusions drawn are supported by the data’.

OK.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 16h

I went nuts.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 16h

We started with your assertion that you could get an LLM to respond accurately. Now you are asserting that it takes extensive testing to even establish what the (inevitable) risks are. Which was where I started.

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Aaron Sterling @aaronsterling.bsky.social · 1d

I've found it helpful to say "Answer in two parts. In the first part, provide only quotes and citations from XYZ source. In the second part, write conclusions based on the cited quotes in the first part."

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 17h

The whole article is about the extensive effort by humans needed to assess (and mitigate, not remove) the legal and reputational risk posed by LLM AI because it inevitably makes things up (amongst other failings). Thank you for making my point.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 17h

I think express wording would be required. An implied repeal is not attractive.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 17h

Is it a payment in relation to the termination of a tenancy, so falling under s1(6)(a)? I’m not at all sure - it may be in consequence of the termination of the tenancy, but not a necessary one.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 17h

Agreed not temporal per se, but connection requires more, I think. A contractual penalty for holding over after tenant NTQ in the tenancy agreement would certainly be caught. But a statutory penalty based precisely on there no longer being a tenancy seems less obviously caught.