Latest Updates
Welfare benefits | Monday 3 July 2017
The “living in” test - whether a claimant who had been travelling abroad for 15 months is “living in” the Common Travel Area for three months prior to claiming JSA(IB)
TC v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (JSA) (Residence and presence conditions - habitual residence) [2017] UKUT 222 (AAC), 24 May 2017 (Judge White) The Upper Tribunal decided that the requirement to have been 'living in” the Common Travel Ar
Housing, Welfare benefits | Monday 3 July 2017
Whether a room is a “bedroom" for the purposes of the bedroom tax
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v The City of Glasgow Council & IB [2017] CSIH 35, 31 May 2017 The Court of Session in Scotland considers what factors should be taken into account in establishing whether a room is a bedroom for the purpose
Adult social care | Friday 9 June 2017
Care Act and accommodation for adults
SG v Haringey and others [2017] EWCA Civ 322, 3 May 2017
Housing | Wednesday 31 May 2017
Homelessness and Article 6 ECHR
Poshteh v Kensington and Chelsea RLBC [2017] UKSC 36, 10 May 2017
Housing | Wednesday 31 May 2017
Effective service of a notice to quit
Grimes v the Trustees of the Essex Farmers and Union Hunt [2017] EWCA Civ 361, 19 May 2017
Housing | Wednesday 31 May 2017
Circumstances in which local authority may revisit a homelessness decision
R (Sambotin) v the London Borough of Brent [2017] EWHC 1190 (Admin), 19 May 2017
Welfare benefits | Wednesday 31 May 2017
Poorly drafted online gateway questions do not allow backdating of UC or allow client to be treated as claiming a legacy benefit
AM v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (UC) [2017] UKUT 131 (AAC)
Court of Protection | Wednesday 31 May 2017
Deprivation of liberty safeguards: the supervisory body is responsible for monitoring compliance with conditions
W [2016] EWCOP 58, DJ Ralton, 14 April 2016
