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A couple of brief notes on two judicial reviews on housing, the Children Act 1989 and 'looked-after children'. BC, R (On the Application Of) v Surrey County Council (2023) EWHC 3209 (Admin) BC was a child who had been asked to leave the family home because...
J and L, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Hillingdon (2017) EWHC 3411 (Admin) This is a very interesting judicial review, concerning the interrelation of a council's housing duties under Part 6 and Part 7 Housing Act 1996 and duties to children...
O, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Lambeth [2016] EWHC 937 (Admin) A judicial review of a decision on a s.17 Children Act 1989 assessment of a homeless, non-eligible family. The issues were the extent of investigations required, and legitimate...
In a judgment of undisguised anger, Cobb J described the conduct of LB Tower Hamlets and LB Havering as "shameful" in the way in which they treated AM and his family. I haven't come across Cobb J before but his judgment in AM v Tower Hamlets LBC and...
As will be clear, P (A Child: Use of S.20 CA 1989) [2014] EWFC 775 is a family law case, but one which crosses with housing law. My suggestion is that it sadly shows that Family lawyers, and indeed Family judges really need housing lawyers with them at all...
R (on the application of PK) v Harrow LBC (2014) QBD Admin 30 January 2014 [Lawtel note, no transcript yet] This judicial review is possibly one for the 'what were they thinking?' pile. The Claimants were the children of M. The family was street homeless and...
R (on the application of MK) v Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council [2013] EWHC 3486 (Admin) [Judgment on Lexis, not on Bailii yet] A judicial review raising the extent of a Council's duties and powers under s.17 Children Act 1989 and s.1 Localism Act...
Courtesy of the Local Government Ombudsman and Shelter, we have joint and several occupants of the naughty step. Welcome to the Step to Kent County Council and Dover District Council. (I know that some of you read NL) The full and frankly shameful story is...
TG, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Lambeth (Shelter Intervening) [2011] EWCA Civ 526 The disconnection between Local Authority Social Services and housing departments has been a frequent topic here and in the courts, not least in the House of...
R (FZ) v LB Croydon [2011] EWCA Civ 59 -or- Not In My Admin Court We have written before about age assessments for those who might be under 18 - see most recently our post on R (CJ) v Cardiff CC and, prior to that, our post on the Supreme Court decision in R...
I suspect that - at some stage - many readers of this blog will have pretended to be older than they actually are, usually to obtain alcohol or to get into night-clubs for the purposes of obtaining more alcohol/meeting the opposite (or same) sex with the...
SO, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Barking and Dagenham [2010] EWCA Civ 1101 I'm a bit slow in getting to this one (and the rest of our backlog). We're all more than a little busy. My apologies. This is the Court of Appeal hearing of a case...