![Desmond Rutledge](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1549.jpg)
Welfare benefits | Thursday 1 July 2021
Universal credit policy on deductions for court fines unlawful as it did not contain exception for financial hardship
Blog by Desmond Rutledge of the Garden Court Chambers Welfare Benefits Law Team. R (Blundel & Ors) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2021] EWHC 608 (Admin)
Capacity, Court of Protection | Thursday 1 July 2021
Capacity and best interests: agoraphobia, pregnancy and transfer to hospital
Blog post by Mai-Ling Savage of the Garden Court Chambers Court of Protection Team. A NHS Foundation Trust v An Expectant Mother [2021] EWCOP 33, Holman J, 13 May 2021
![Helen Curtis](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/956.jpg)
Capacity, Court of Protection | Thursday 1 July 2021
Capacity to decide to engage in sexual relations – application for a prospective declaration of incapacity rejected
Blog post by Helen Curtis of the Garden Court Chambers Court of Protection Team. A Local Authority v A Mother and A Father and DY [2021] EWCOP 28 (Knowles J) 10 May 2021
![Tim Baldwin](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1279.jpg)
![Adrian Berry](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1358.jpg)
Migrant support | Thursday 1 July 2021
Home Office dispersal of asylum seekers in Bristol - failure of Secretary of State to lawfully apply her own policy
Adrian Berry and Tim Baldwin acted in the case R (on the application of IO) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department. Blog post by Tim Baldwin.