Latest Updates
Welfare benefits | Monday 5 March 2018
High Court rules 'blatantly discriminatory' amendments to PIP criteria unlawful
RF v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2017] EWHC 3375 (Admin) Mostyn J, 21 December 2017
Children, Housing | Monday 5 March 2018
Possession proceedings – no such thing as a ‘relevant breach’
Teign Housing v Lane [2018] EWHC 40 (QB), 16 January 2018
Court of Protection | Wednesday 17 January 2018
Court of Protection Visitors’ reports can provide the necessary procedural safeguards for the incapacitated person in the streamlined procedure for authorisation of deprivation of liberty; increase in government funding for such reports
Re KT, DR, KH and DC [2018] EWCOP 1, 15 January 2018, Charles J
Capacity, Court of Protection | Monday 15 January 2018
NICE consultation on draft guidance on decision-making and mental capacity
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is consulting on its draft guideline until 5th February 2018, with an expected publication date for the guideline of 16 May 2018.
Children, Housing | Thursday 4 January 2018
Accommodation needs of vulnerable young family – the interplay between s17 CA 1989 and Parts 6 and 7 Housing Act 1996
R (J and L) v Hillingdon LBC [2017] EWHC 3411 (Admin), 21 December 2017
Housing | Thursday 21 December 2017
Home office policy of removing EEA national rough sleepers found to be unlawful
R (Gureckis) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWHC 3298 (Admin), 14 December 2017
Adult social care | Wednesday 20 December 2017
Section 117 Mental Health Act 1983 after-care: A claim for restitution against two public authorities for payment of after-care services was a private law claim
Richards v Worcestershire County Council & Anor [2017] EWCA Civ 1998 (12 December 2017)
Welfare benefits | Wednesday 20 December 2017
Self-employed EU citizens can retain that status under Article 7(3)(b) Directive 2004/38
Florea Gusa v Minister for Social Protection, Ireland, Attorney General, Case C‑442/16, J.L. da Cruz Vilaça, A. Tizzano, E. Levits, A. Borg Barthet and M. Berger, CJEU (Fifth Chamber), 20 December 2017
