News Implementation of PIP On 20 June 2014, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said that the failure to pilot the personal independence payment (PIP) scheme properly has resulted in significant delays to benefit decisions and a backlog of claims. Commenting on the report Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts, said: "The […]
Haile v Waltham Forest LBC [2014] EWCA Civ 792 (Jackson, Fulford and Christopher Clarke LJJ): question whether applicant is intentionally homeless should be considered with reference to facts as they existed at time of leaving accommodation. Ms Haile was an assured shorthold tenant of a room at Lea Bridge House. It was a term of […]
R (ZYN) v Walsall MBC[2014] EWHC 1918 Admin (Leggatt J): capital managed by a deputy appointed by the Court of Protection under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 is ‘administered on behalf of a person by the Court of Protection’ for the purposes of paragraph 44(1)(a) of Schedule 10 to the National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) […]
Valuing every voice, respecting every right: Making the case for the Mental Capacity Act: the Government responded, in June 2014, to the House of Lords’ Select Committee Report on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 published on 13 March 2014. The Select Committee had concluded that the MCA is failing vulnerable adults, that not enough professionals […]
In Jessy Saint Prix v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Case C‑507/12), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decided that an EU national who left work due to pregnancy retained her worker status. SP, a French national, worked in the UK in various jobs between September 2006 and August 2007. […]
JG v the Lord Chancellor and Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 656 (LLJ Richards, Black and Fulford): The appeal related to a child who was subject to family proceedings under secton 8, Children Act 1989 with the children's guardian appointed to act. The appeal succeeded against the refusal of the Legal Aid Agency to refuse to […]
No case law update. A whole host of new statutory guidance has been issud by the Department for Education. The following are some relevant guidance: Admissions in free school: click here. Admissions for summer-born children: click here. Admissions for previously looked-after (adopted) children: click here. School Governors' Handbook 2014 outlining governors' roles and duties: click […]
Hines v Lambeth [2014] EWCA Civ 660 (Sullivan, Patten and Vos LJJ): eligibility of Zambrano carer for Part VII accommodation. Ms Hines was a Jamaican citizen and Mother to a four-year old child, Brandon, with British citizenship. Brandon had acquired his citizenship from his Father: a national of the Ivory Coast with an EU right […]
