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Court of Protection | Monday 31 July 2017
S21A MCA 2005 not appropriate where the central issue was whether CANH life-sustaining treatment was in a person’s best interests
Director of Legal Aid Casework (1) Secretaries of State for Health and for Justice (2) The Official Solicitor (3) v Briggs [2017] EWCA Civ 1169, 31 July 2017, President of the Queen’s Bench Division (Sir Brian Leveson), Lady Justice King and Lord Justice
Children | Monday 31 July 2017
High Court finds local authority breached Children Act 1989 for failing to carry out lawful assessment of autistic child
R (on the application of AC and SH) v London Borough of Lambeth Council [2017] EWHC 1796 (Admin) Case NO: CO/84/2017, 14 July 2017 The High Court has found that Lambeth London Borough Council failed to carry out a sufficiently wide, statutory guidance-
Welfare benefits | Monday 31 July 2017
The need for balance when assessing the claimant’s evidence
VS v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (ESA): [2017] UKUT 274 (AAC) (Upper Tribunal Judge E. Jacobs) 30 June 2017
Welfare benefits | Monday 31 July 2017
Citizens Advice and National Federation of ALMOs call on the Government to pause the roll-out of Universal Credit
In their report ‘Delivering Universal Credit’, Citizens Advice ask the Government to pause the roll-out of full service Universal Credit (UC) to enable time to fix the problems that have become evident in full service UC areas.
Adult social care | Sunday 30 July 2017
Cutting personal budgets for care
Davey, R (On the Application Of) v Oxfordshire County Council [2017] EWHC 354 (Admin) 27 February 2017. The claimant has quadriplegic cerebral palsy and severe visual impairment. He is dependent on a wheelchair, needed assistance with all his personal
Housing | Thursday 6 July 2017
Distinction between improvements and repairs
Dodd v Raebarn Estates Ltd [2017] EWCA Civ 439, 21 June 2017
Housing | Wednesday 5 July 2017
Service occupiers: exclusion from security of tenure regime compatible with ECHR
Hertfordshire County Council v Davies [2017] EWHC 1488 (QB), 21 June 2017
Housing | Wednesday 5 July 2017
Allocations: local lettings and undisclosed policies
R(C) v Islington London Borough Council [2017] EWHC 1288 (Admin), 31 May 2017
