Housing | Tuesday 1 November 2016
Duty to accept repeat homeless application
R (Abdulrahman) v London Borough of Hillingdon [2016] EWHC 2647 (Admin), 28 October 2016 From June 2012 the claimant, A, lived in a property in Hayes, Middlesex together with her husband and their nine children. They occupied the property under an ass
Children, Education | Monday 31 October 2016
Guidance laid down on approach of SEN Tribunal to dispute over parental preference for named school in statement
S-G v Denbighshire County Council, (B) (SEN) [2016] UKUT 0460 (AACC), 6 October 2016 Guidance is given by the Upper Tribunal to Special Educational Needs Tribunals on dealing with cases where parents cannot agree on the maintained school to be specifie
Children, Migrant support | Monday 31 October 2016
Section 95 asylum support rates held lawful and rational
R (SG and Ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening [2016] EWHC 2639 (Admin) (Flaux J), 24 October 2016 Three conjoined claims for judicial review challenged decisions by the Secretary of St
Children | Tuesday 4 October 2016
Discharge of Section 20 Children Act 1989 duty to provide accommodation to a 17-year-old boy who repeatedly refused to be placed
R (on the application of A) v Haringey LBC, unreported, Queen’s Bench Division (Administrative Court), 16 September 2016 A local authority had done all that was reasonably practicable to discharge its duty pursuant to s.20 of the Children Act 1989 to p
