Housing Law Bulletin – Issue 321 – 19 August 2013
Monday 19 Aug 2013
Housing Law News Legal aid for housing cases: the Low Commission is looking at the impact of legal aid reform on areas of social welfare law, including housing. It has…
Housing Law Bulletin – Issue 319 – 5 August 2013
Monday 5 Aug 2013
…in social rented housing, click here. For Rent setting for social housing tenancies, click here. For The Household Benefit Cap, click here. Tenants and homeowners could usefully be provided with…
Housing Law Bulletin – Issue 324 – 10 September 2013
Tuesday 10 Sep 2013
…(LAG subscribers only). Social housing fraud: does the criminal law hold the key? T. Crook [2013] 16 Journal of Housing Law 101 Social landlords and the courts bear the brunt…
Housing Law Bulletin – Issue 320 – 12 August 2013
Monday 12 Aug 2013
…Written evidence should be submitted by 27 September 2013. For more details, click here. Updates on Housing Law: for daily housing law news and updates follow the Editor of this…
Social Welfare Update: Assessing capacity to make decisions on use of internet and social media
Tuesday 23 Apr 2019
Both decisions deal with the approach to assessing capacity to use social media and the internet, Cobb J taking care to factor in their great importance to many people, and…
Desmond Rutledge
Call: 2001
Desmond’s main area of expertise is in welfare benefits, which is rooted in his work an advice worker before he came to the Bar. He provides representation to claimants before…
Social Welfare Update: Capacity to consent to sex: does the test for capacity require an understanding of the need for the other person to consent?
Thursday 31 Oct 2019
…had expressed the wish to find a partner and develop a relationship with them, the care plan imposed restrictions on his ability to socialise freely in order to prevent him…
Social Welfare Update: High Court’s inherent jurisdiction for the protection of vulnerable adults used to prevent a person from returning home to a life-threatening situation
Tuesday 23 Apr 2019
…injunctions restraining KF from behaving in an aggressive and intimidating way towards health, social care or housing professionals and from interfering with repairs. In December 2017 a care agency withdrew…
2011 10 Welfare Benefits
Tuesday 1 Nov 2011
…security benefits (e.g. Pension Credit, Tax Credits and Child Benefit as opposed to social assistance such as Income Support and Housing Benefit). Tribunals deciding social security appeals are, however, bound…
Housing Law
…the full range of accommodation and support issues concerning migrant welfare and asylum support. We are able to offer a complete service in social services, homelessness and connected Children Act…
