![Desmond Rutledge](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1549.jpg)
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
![Desmond Rutledge](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1549.jpg)
Welfare benefits | Friday 26 February 2021
Social Welfare Update: Court of Appeal rules that the exclusion of EEA citizens with ‘Pre-settled Status’ from accessing Universal Credit is unlawful
R (Fratila & Tanase) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2020] EWCA Civ 1741
![Tessa Buchanan](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1269.jpg)
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)
![Amanda Weston KC](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/2087.jpg)
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)