My friend and former colleague Simon “Spike” Mullings, who has died aged 57 in a kayaking accident, was a self-taught expert in housing law who worked for a London legal firm before moving to the Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre and co-chairing the Housing Law Practitioners Association (HLPA).
Spike got into legal work when he was employed as an odd-job man at the east London solicitors Edwards Duthie, where I worked, and through that connection developed an interest in how the law operated.
