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Our social welfare pages provide bite-sized updates on recent case-law and policy, written by Garden Court barristers specialising in adult social care, children’s services, Court of Protection (health and welfare), housing and homelessness, and welfare benefits.

Latest Updates

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 15 October 2018

Application of notice requirement under s21(1B) Housing Act 1988 during probationary period of AST

Livewest Homes Ltd v Bamber [2018] EWHC 2454 (QB), 27 September 2018

Garden Court Chambers | Monday 15 October 2018

Who is an ‘aggrieved’ person for the purposes of EPA proceedings?

Watkins v Aged Merchant Seamen's Homes and Historic Property Restoration Limited [2018] EWHC 2410 (Admin), 17 April 2018

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 11 September 2018

Cost orders and the Court of Protection

(London Borough of Lambeth v MCS (by her litigation friend the Official Solicitor) (1) Lambeth CCG (2) [2018] EWCOP 14; and London Borough of Lambeth v MCS (by her litigation friend the Official Solicitor) (1); and Lambeth CCG (2)[2018] EWCOP 20)

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 11 September 2018

Zambrano carer entitled to Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit based on an Agreement between the EU and Morocco

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v HEH and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (TC and CHB): [2018] UKUT 237 (AAC) Judge Ward, 17 July 2018

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 11 September 2018

The Supreme Court finds that the requirement that parents be married or in a civil partnership in order to claim Widowed Parent’s Allowance is incompatible with Article 14 ECHR read with Article 8 ECHR and A1P1

Siobhan McLaughlin for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2018] UKSC 48 – 30 August 2018

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 11 September 2018

Deprivation of liberty and local authority care arrangements for children

Re A-F (Children) (No. 2) [2018] EWHC 2129 (Fam), Sir James Munby, 8 August 2018

Garden Court Chambers | Tuesday 11 September 2018

Care Act 2014: reduction in care package for woman with multiple sclerosis upheld

R (on the application of) VI v London Borough of Lewisham [2018] EWHC 2180 (Admin), Andrew Henshaw QC (sitting as a Judge of the High Court), 15 August 2018