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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 | Thursday 25 February 2021

Social Welfare Update: Health Secretary acted unlawfully by not publishing details of pandemic contracts within stipulated period breaching his own Transparency Policy

Good Law Project Ltd & Ors, R. (On Application of) v Secretary of State for Health And Social Care

Garden Court Chambers | Thursday 25 February 2021

Social Welfare Update: Breach of Public Sector Equality Duty in bringing possession proceedings cured by subsequent compliance

Taylor v Slough BC [2020] EWHC 3520 (Ch)

Garden Court Chambers | Thursday 25 February 2021

Social Welfare Update: Damages of £143,000 for unlawful deprivation of liberty of incapacitous care home resident upheld

London Borough of Haringey v Emile [2020] County Court at Central London, 18 December 2020, HHJ Saggerson

Garden Court Chambers | Thursday 25 February 2021

Social Welfare Update: Court of Appeal rules that the exclusion of EEA citizens with ‘Pre-settled Status’ from accessing Universal Credit is unlawful

Blog by Desmond Rutledge of the Garden Court Chambers Welfare Benefits Law Team. R (Fratila & Tanase) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2020] EWCA Civ 1741

Garden Court Chambers | Thursday 25 February 2021

Social Welfare Update: Provision of support to trafficking victims following a negative conclusive grounds decision

MN v SSHD [2020] EWCA Civ 1746

Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 23 December 2020

Social Welfare Update: Legality of Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020 upheld; meaning of self-isolation

Blog by Tim Baldwin of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. R (on the application of Francis) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2020] EWHC 3287(Admin)

Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 23 December 2020

Social Welfare Update: No “temporal leeway” in considering out of borough placement

Blog by Connor Johnston. Ed Fitzpatrick and Sophie Caseley of the Garden Court Housing Team acted for the Respondent Ms Broderick.

Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 23 December 2020