Latest Updates
Capacity, Court of Protection | Friday 26 February 2021
Social Welfare Update: Would receipt of a Covid-19 vaccine be in a mentally incapacitated person’s best interests when other treatments are proposed by a family member?
SD v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea [2021] EWCOP 14
Welfare benefits | Friday 26 February 2021
Social Welfare Update: Suspension of DLA after 28 days in hospital did not violate Article 14 ECHR, in case of an adult patient with severe learning disabilities
MOC (by MG) v SSWP (DLA) [2020] UKUT 134 (AAC)
Welfare benefits | Friday 26 February 2021
Social Welfare Update: Denial of bereavement support payment to family of a deceased woman who had been unable to work and pay NI contributions due to severe disability breached ECHR
O'Donnell v Department For Communities [2020] NICA 36
Housing | Friday 26 February 2021
Social Welfare Update: Council misapplied its Allocation Scheme by treating a “preference” given to families with children as an automatic decision in their favour
R (Nur) v Birmingham City Council [2020] EWHC 3526 (Admin)
Migrant support | Friday 26 February 2021
Social Welfare Update: Lacuna in leave to remain policy arising from delays in identification of victims of trafficking
EOG v SSHD [2020] EWHC 3310 (Admin)
Housing | Friday 26 February 2021
Social Welfare Update: Repeat homelessness applications and local connection
R (Minott) v Cambridge City Council (2021) EWHC 211 (Admin)
Adult social care, Capacity, Court of Protection | Friday 26 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
Adult social care, Health care | Friday 26 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
