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Welfare benefits | Tuesday 24 May 2016
Commerciality of a letting provided by a son to his sick mother
In CE v Maldon District Council [2015] UKUT 565 (AAC) (Judge Mark), the Upper Tribunal considered the effect on commerciality of a letting between a son and his mother where the mother was suffering from a fatal illness.
Welfare benefits | Tuesday 24 May 2016
Benefit sanctions and delays among the most common causes for people falling into destitution
A report published on 27 April 2016 by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) found that 1.25 million people in the UK are destitute, including over 300,000 children.
Welfare benefits | Tuesday 24 May 2016
Universal Credit has been watered down so much that it risks failing to achieve its original purpose, warns Resolution Foundation
In a report published on 3 May 2016, the Resolution Foundation think tank states that cuts to Universal Credit work allowances have undermined the incentive to enter work for a short number of hours.
Welfare benefits | Tuesday 24 May 2016
The Right to Reside: The primary carer of a child in education
In IP v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (IS) [2015] UKUT 691 (AAC) CIS/2790/2012 (Judge Jacobs) the Upper Tribunal considered the position where the EEA worker was not the child’s biological parent.
Housing | Tuesday 24 May 2016
Is a private registered provider of social housing amenable to judicial review?
R (Macleod) v Governors of Peabody Trust [2016] EWHC 737 (Admin) (William Davis J)
Housing | Tuesday 24 May 2016
'Working households' provision in Ealing allocation scheme results in unlawful discrimination
R (H) v Ealing LBC [2016] EWHC 841 (Admin) (HHJ Waksman QC)
Housing | Tuesday 24 May 2016
Installing bannister an improvement not a repair
Sternbaum v Dhesi [2016] EWCA Civ (Hallett LJ, Briggs LJ, Moylan J)
Housing | Tuesday 24 May 2016
Material change in circumstances needed to justify repeat stay application
Hall v Elia, 11 March 2016 (Proudman J)
