On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Bessent

Owners would probably still get compensation for the buildings on the land and for the natural resources, the lawyers said.Mabasa and Karberg added that EWC was "not aimed at rural land or farmland specifically, and could include land in urban areas".

However, in cases where compensation is paid, the rules are set to change, with owners likely to get less money.The plan is for owners to receive "just-and-equitable" compensation – a departure from the higher "market value" they have been getting up to now, Mabasa and Karberg said.The government had been paying market-value compensation despite the fact that this was "at odds" with the constitution, adopted after white-minority rule ended in 1994, they added.

The lawyers said that all expropriations had "extensive procedural fairness requirements", including the owner's right to go to court if they were not happy.The move away from market-value compensation will also apply to land expropriated for a "public purpose" – like building state schools or railways.

This has not been a major point of controversy, possibly because it is

, a legal website run by law students from around the world."Because of her refusal of these property offers, the council have discharged her main housing duty, and we have made a referral to children services at Hounslow Council who may be able to support her under the Children's Act," it added.

More than 164,000 homeless children are currently living in temporary accommodation across England, the highest number on record, figures show.Analysis of government data by homeless charity Shelter suggests there are almost 94,000 children in London living in temporary accommodation.

As a result, families are being displaced with some Londoners being moved miles away due to a lack of permanent affordable housing in the capital, according to Alicia Walker, Shelter's assistant director for activism and advocacy."We're sending children and families from London to Manchester, but Manchester has the very same problem, then the children and families in Manchester might be moved to Durham...it means we've got a country of displaced people," she says.