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RM v Scottish Ministers [2012] UKSC 58 (Lord Hope, Lady Hale, Lords Wilson, Reed, Carnwath JSC): the failure of Scottish Ministers to make regulations to bring into operation the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Scotland Act 2003, sections 268 to 271 (which allow certain qualifying patients to apply to a tribunal if they consider they […]
(This Note has been reproduced from a talk presented at a recent judicial review conference for immigration practitioners.) Introduction 1. Last year, we saw great strides in the legal world in the field of migrant children’s rights. We had the Supreme Court affirming in ZH (Tanzania) [2011] UKSC 4 what practitioners probably always felt was […]
News New DWP figures show that 64 per cent of reassessed Incapacity Benefit claimants were entitled to Employment and Support Allowance. The statistical release 'Employment and Support Allowance – Incapacity Benefits Reassessments: Outcomes of Work Capability Assessments, Great Britain', published on 6 November 2012, says that of the 139,200 people on incapacity benefits reassessed between […]
Richmond upon Thames LBC v Kubicek [2012] EWHC 3292 (QB) (Leggatt J): This appeal concerned the circumstances in which is it permissible for a county court hearing an appeal under section 204 Housing Act 1996 to receive evidence on and decide a question of fact relevant to the review decision. The appellant, Mrs Kubicek, made […]
RP & others v UK Application no: 3824/08, European Court of Human Rights, 9 October 2012: RP was a woman aged 20 who had a significant learning disability. She gave birth to a child, born prematurely and with many serious medical conditions. The local authority was concerned at RP's ability to understand the baby's needs […]
RM v Scottish Ministers [2012] UKSC 58 (Lord Hope JSC (Deputy President), Lady Hale JSC, Lord Wilson JSC, Lord Reed JSC, Lord Carnwath JSC). In allowing an appeal the Supreme Court held that the failure of Scottish Ministers to make the necessary regulations to bring into effective operation sections 268 – 271 of the Mental […]
E (A CHILD) (Thorpe LJ, Rimer LJ, Baron J) extempore judgment 22/11/2012: A court was not prevented by the Children Act 1989 s100 from making a child a ward of court where the child was accommodated pursuant to section 20, Children Act 1989. In circumstances where a child was s20 accommodated, the lower court was […]
