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On 22 October 2020, the government published just over 500 pages of changes to the immigration rules. Thankfully, most of those can be ignored by this blog. But there is one bit that we really, really, need to talk about. With effect from 9am on 1 December...
Scanlon v London Borough of Lambeth, Central London County Court 14 September 2020 (We've see a note of the decision). This was a section 204 Housing Act 1996 appeal following Lambeth's review decision that Ms S had made herself intentionally homeless. This...
Tiemo, R (on the application of) v Lambeth London Borough Council (2020) EWHC 1193 (Admin) A interim judicial review decision from May, but judgment just out. The issue was the suitability of temporary accommodation under section 188 Housing Act 1996...
Karimi v Southwark LBC, County Court at Central London, 26 April 2020 (note in July/August 2020 Legal Action - Housing: Recent Developments) Mr Karimi had applied to Southwark as homeless. Southwark found he was not in priority need in a s.184 decision. Mr K...
Today, 29 June 2020, MHCLG issued an update to the statutory Homelessness code of guidance for local authorities. The relevant updates are to the chapter on priority need and consist of a new paragraph 8.44 and 8.45, as follows: 8.44 COVID-19: Housing...
Escott, R (On the application of) v Chichester District Council (2020) EWHC 1687 (Admin) A judicial review where the relevant parts played out in the early stages of the pandemic lockdown, and where the central question was whether self contained...
A couple of news items, both relating to homelessness policies. First, following a judicial review challenge, LB Lambeth has agreed to end its ‘Temp2Settled’ Scheme. Under this scheme, since 2014, homeless applicants were promised higher priority on the...
Mitchell, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Islington (2020) EWHC 1478 (Admin) Where a local authority has an initial s.188 Housing Act 1996 duty to provide interim accommodation, but then makes a s.184 decision that the applicant is not in...
Gil v London Borough of Camden (2020) EWHC 735 (QB) This was an application for permission to appeal the dismissal of a s.204 appeal for being out of time. (It was either one or two days out of time, depending). The application was dismissed because a) the...
In a rare these days bit of good news, the Government have announced that the Domestic Abuse Bill will be amended to make being a victim domestic abuse priority need for the purposes of local authorities homelessness housing duty. This follows strong...
LB v London Borough of Tower Hamlets (2020) EWCA Civ 439 A second appeal on a homelessness review, where a finding of intentional homelessness had been upheld, raising an important point on whether events or factors post-dating the decision or action that...
McMahon v Watford Borough Council (2020) EWCA Civ 497 (and Kiefer v Hertsmere Borough Council ) We saw the approach of the Court of Appeal to the operation of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) in possession proceedings in Luton Community Housing v...