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Capacity, Housing | Friday 22 June 2018
Capacity to make a homeless application
WB (a protected party through her litigation friend the Official Solicitor) v W District Council [2018] EWCA Civ 928, 26 April 2018
Housing | Friday 22 June 2018
Damages for unlawful eviction
Mr Smith was the assured shorthold tenant of Mr Khan. The tenancy commenced in June 2014. It was for a fixed term of 12 months.
Housing | Friday 22 June 2018
Whether to award ECHR damages for breach of homelessness duties
The claimant, M, was an Irish national with three children. The middle child, T, had spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy and bilateral hip dislocation and relied on a wheelchair to mobilise.
Housing, Migrant support | Friday 22 June 2018
Young people brought to UK under ‘Dubs amendment’ to be eligible for homelessness assistance and allocation of social housing
The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2018, SI 2018/730
Housing, Migrant support | Friday 22 June 2018
Trafficking victims: suitable accommodation and damages
XPQ v Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council [2018] EWHC 1391 (QB), 7 June 2018
Housing | Friday 22 June 2018
Housing and disabled people - Britain's hidden crisis: an inquiry by the Equality and Human Rights Commission
“I have not been outside since 2011 except for essential hospital stays. My flat is on the second floor with no lift; it is not wheelchair accessible, and although I have and need a power wheelchair, I cannot even use it indoors as the flat is not adapted
Welfare benefits | Friday 22 June 2018
EU co-ordination rules do not provide for entitlement to child benefit in respect of a step child resident in another Member State
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v MB: [2018] UKUT 162 (AAC), Judge Jacobs, 8 May 2018
Welfare benefits | Friday 22 June 2018
A child’s right to education and a parent's derivative right to reside is dependent on a common period of residence when the parent was a worker
In Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council v HY (HB): [2018] UKUT 103 (AAC), Judge Ward, 23 March 2018, the claimant, HY, a Dutch national, had moved to the UK in December 2012.
