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Children, Migrant support, Welfare benefits | Monday 25 July 2016
Southwark’s approach to accommodation and financial support of a migrant family pursuant to section 17 Children Act 1989 was not unlawful
R. (on the application of C, T, M and U) v Southwark LBC & Coram Children’s Legal Centre (Intervening) [2016] EWCA Civ 707, 12 July 2016. In dismissing the appeal, the Court of Appeal accepted that Southwark was not operating an irrational or inflexible p
Education | Monday 25 July 2016
School out of time to challenge an OFSTED report
R (Dawatul Islam UK & Eire) v OFSTED, unreported, 13 July 2016. A school that sought to challenge the contents of an OFSTED report was refused permission on the basis that the claim was out of time.
Children | Monday 25 July 2016
Child refusing to eat should not have been made the subject of a Child Protection Plan
R. (on the application of O) v Peterborough City Council & Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (Interested Party), QBD, Administrative Court, unreported, 23 June 2016.
Housing | Friday 15 July 2016
When to suspend a possession order
City West Housing Trust v Lindsey Massey, Manchester and District Housing Association v Roberts [2016] EWCA Civ 704, 7 July 2016
Housing | Friday 15 July 2016
Duty to accept repeat homeless application
R (H) v London Borough of Southwark [2016] EWHC 1665 (Admin), 8 July 2016
Housing | Friday 15 July 2016
Whether lengthy period in temporary accommodation is ‘settled accommodation’
Huda v London Borough of Redbridge [2016] EWCA Civ 709, 12 July 2016
Housing | Friday 15 July 2016
Disrepair: whether footpath is part of exterior
Edwards v Kumarasamy [2016] UKSC 40, 13 July 2016
Housing, Mental health | Friday 15 July 2016
Article 8 as a defence against a private sector possession claim
McDonald v McDonald [2016] UKSC 28, 15 June 2016
