![Desmond Rutledge](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1549.jpg)
Welfare benefits | Tuesday 28 May 2019
Social Welfare Update: Someone who is appealing a decision to refuse an application to vary leave is classified as a person subject to immigration control under s.115(9)(d) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and therefore excluded from benefits
EE v City of Cardiff (HB) [2018] UKUT 418 (AAC), 11 December 2018, UTJ R Poynter
![Desmond Rutledge](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1549.jpg)
Welfare benefits | Tuesday 28 May 2019
Social Welfare Update: Revised benefit cap does not discriminate against lone parents with children below school age under arts 14 and 8 ECHR nor does it breach art 3(1) UNCRC
R (DA & Ors) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2019] UKSC 21, Lady Hale PSC, Lord Reed DPSC, Lord Kerr JSC, Lord Wilson JSC, Lord Carnwath JSC, Lord Hughes JSC, Lord Hodge JSC, 15 May 2019
![Bethan Harris](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/802.jpg)
Adult social care, Capacity, Court of Protection | Tuesday 28 May 2019
Social Welfare Update: Court of Protection: Personal health budget with third-party brokerage; lack of alternative options
Harrow CCG v IPJ, IJJ and AJ (by his litigation friend, the Official Solicitor)[2018] EWCOP 44, HHJ Hilder, 20 April 2019
![Connor Johnston](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/846.jpg)
Housing | Tuesday 28 May 2019
Social Welfare Update: Looking to the future when considering whether applicant homeless at home, and procedural fairness in review process
Safi v Sandwell MBC [2018] EWCA Civ 2876, 21 December 2018