Tag Archive for 'accommodation'

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Women's refuges and homelessness

By NL on 17/04/2008. 0 Comments

Manchester City Council v Moran & Richards v Ipswich Borough Council [2008] EWCA Civ 378

This is a very important Court of Appeal judgment, which will have significant impact on Women’s Refuges and women fleeing domestic violence.

These were two appeals, conjoined, both featuring women whose stay at refuges had been ended following incidents and who faced findings of intentional homelessness on homeless applications as a result. The difference was that Moran had the decision as s.184 decision on application as homeless after leaving the refuge and the other, Richards, had been in the refuge after an application and acceptance of duty, with the refuge as temporary accommodation under s193 … Read the full post

Posted in FLW case note, Homeless and Housing law - All. Tags: accommodation, homelessness, Housing law - All, intentionality, intentionally homeless, law, women's refuges.

Housing for children

By NL on 02/03/2008. 2 Comments

A couple of recent cases concerning local authorities’ duties under s.20 Childrens Act 1989

R (On The Application of M) (Fc) V London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Appellate Committee [2008] UKHL 14 concerns the varied responsibilities of Social Services and Housing depts. The duties under s.20 Childrens Act towards 16 – 18 year olds are more extensive than those under Housing Act 1996 homelessness provisions. In this case, the 17 year old presented to the housing dept. and was, eventually given temporary accommodation. What the House of Lords found ought to have happened was that, given that there was at least a question of her being a ‘child in … Read the full post

Posted in Community care, FLW case note and Housing law - All. Tags: accommodation, Children Act, Housing law - All, law.