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Some good news. The government has committed to scrapping the rough sleeping provisions of the Vagrancy Act 1824 and not replacing them. Finally, rough sleeping will be decriminalised. The previous government had said the Vagrancy Act 1824 would be repealed,...
Kaur v Birmingham City Council. County Court at Birmingham. 12 January 2025. (Copy of judgment is here). A copy of the judgment in this County Court trial on a preliminary issue before a Circuit Judge has reached me. It is both interesting, and, I gather,...
Beach v South Hams District Council (2025) EWCA Civ 609 A second appeal from a section 204 appeal of South Hams' review decision that Mr Beach was intentionally homeless by not occupying (or not continuing to occupy) a hotel room in Paignton that had been...
This is a cautionary tale, somewhat along the lines of Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children. Consider this the "George: Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions." of homelessness judicial reviews....
Mohamed v LB Hounslow. Central London County Court. 28 April 2025 (Unreported. A copy of the judgment is here.) Our thanks to Will Ford of Osbornes Law and counsel Daniel Clarke for letting us know about this section 204 appeal of a review of suitability of...
Socrattes Ofori-Addo v London Borough of Haringey (2025) EWCA Civ 277 A second appeal from a section 204 appeal. Ms O-A had applied to Haringey as homeless and was in temporary accommodation under the section 189B Housing Act 1996 relief duty. An offer of a...
Sorry for the silence, while the cases to write up have piled up. It has been a busy stretch in and out of work... More thorough write-ups of some cases will follow, but for now, a few brief notes on cases of interest and oddness. Thanks to Doughty Street...
Munemo v City of Wolverhampton Council (2025) EWCC 4 This is quite the section 204 homelessness appeal of Wolverhampton's review decision confirming the decision that Ms M was intentionally homeless. Ms M had applied to Wolverhampton as homeless in 2020. The...
Bano, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Waltham Forest (2025) EWCA Civ 92 This was Waltham Forest's appeal of a judicial review (our note here) which had found that its housing duty to Ms Bano continued because WF had not made a vlid decision to...
Hussaini v Islington London Borough Council (2025) EWCA Civ 22 Mr Hussaini was a refugee. He had been accommodated in Barking & Dagenham area. On grant of leave to remain, he applied as homeless to Islington. Islington decided he did not have a local...
Ivory, R (On the Application Of) v Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (2025) EWCA Civ 21 A second appeal to the Court of Appeal from a judicial review of Welwyn Hatfield's rejection of a homelessness application by Ms Ivory, on the basis that it was based on...
Idara v Southwark LBC (2024) EWHC (KB) (unreported as yet) Thanks to 4-5 Grays Inn Square for their note of the case. This was an appeal to the High Court of the County Court's refusal to give permission for an out of time section 204 appeal. Southwark had...