Case law A v Essex CC [2010] UKSC 33: Damages claim based on Article 2 Protocol 1 of the ECHR and what the scope and content of this right is in domestic law. Appellant is a severely autistic young man, now aged 21, who suffers significant learning difficulties who was asked to be kept at […]
Housing Benefit cuts – the proposed changes to local housing allowance in 2011 Changes to Housing Benefit paid in the private sector in the form of local housing allowance were first announced in the Emergency Budget in June 2010. From April 2010 the changes include: – local housing allowance levels will be restricted to the […]
UK BORDER AGENCY – GOVERNMENT PLANS REVIEWS OF IMMIGRATION SYSTEM On 6thSeptember 2010 the Immigration Minister Damian Green announced government plans for reviews of the immigration system. The reviews will look into how long term net migration can be reduced by identifying new controls to separate categories of immigration. Click here for more Case Law […]
R(on the application of Elaine McDonald) v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea[2010] EWCA Civ 1109 (Rix, Wilson LJJ, Sir David Keene): The local authority breached a duty owed to the Claimant by failing to meet her assessed needs. However once her needs had been re-assessed, the provision made to meet her needs involved no […]
Michael Pieretti v London Borough of Enfield [2010] EWCA Civ 1104, CA (12 October 2010) (Wilson, Mummery, Longmore LJJ) The application of the public sector equality duty in respect of disabled persons to the powers and duties of local authorities in respect of homeless persons – a local authority’s obligation to make further inquiries where […]
Services and Public Functions under the Equality Act 2010: Toolkit Part 3 of the Equality Act 2010 Toolkit Equality Act 2010 Explanatory Notes to the Equality Act 2010 Regulatory Impact Assessment for the Equality Act 2010 The Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 4, Savings, Consequential, Transitional, Transitory and Incidental Provisions and Revocation) Order 2010 SI […]
Practice Note DISABILITY LIVING ALLOWANCE THE HIGHER RATE MOBILITY COMPONENT THE TEST FOR VIRTUALLY UNABLE TO WALK – SOME COMMON ERRORS The disability test for the higher rate mobility component has been described as “perhaps the most litigated area in social security law”(R(DLA) 4/03 para 19). The statutory test in regulation 12(1)(a)(ii) of the Social […]
Services and Public Functions under the Equality Act 2010: Protected Characteristics Part 3 of the Equality Act 2010 One of the key concepts under the 2010 Act is that of ‘protected characteristics’. These are found in Part 2, Chapter 1, ss 4-12 of the Act. As set out in s 4, the protected characteristics are: […]
