Welfare benefits | Monday 3 July 2017
The “living in” test - whether a claimant who had been travelling abroad for 15 months is “living in” the Common Travel Area for three months prior to claiming JSA(IB)
TC v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (JSA) (Residence and presence conditions - habitual residence) [2017] UKUT 222 (AAC), 24 May 2017 (Judge White) The Upper Tribunal decided that the requirement to have been 'living in” the Common Travel Ar
Housing, Welfare benefits | Monday 3 July 2017
Whether a room is a “bedroom" for the purposes of the bedroom tax
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v The City of Glasgow Council & IB [2017] CSIH 35, 31 May 2017 The Court of Session in Scotland considers what factors should be taken into account in establishing whether a room is a bedroom for the purpose
Court of Protection, Mental health | Thursday 25 May 2017
Deprivation of liberty and Community Treatment Orders (CTOs): MM and PJ decided
SSJ v MM; Welsh Ministers v PJ [2017] EWCA Civ 194, [2017] MHLO 16, 29 March 2017. A Community Treatment Order can be a statutory alternative to compulsory detention even though it amounts to an objective deprivation of liberty, but a capacitous patie
Adult social care | Friday 9 June 2017
Care Act and accommodation for adults
SG v Haringey and others [2017] EWCA Civ 322, 3 May 2017