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
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
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
Tuesday 28 May 2019
Social Welfare Update: Children Act 1989 s17 - flawed assessment of destitution
R (JA, GA, and EF (by their mother/aunt and litigation friend AA) v Bexley LBC [2019] EWHC 130 (Admin), 1 February 2019