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EA v GA & Westminster City Council & Salford City Council [2010] EWCA Civ 586 [Not on Bailii, transcript on Lawtel] This is a little outside our usual grounds, but as it concerns the Court's power to direct Local Authorities to accommodate a child and...
TG, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Lambeth [2010] EWHC 907 (Admin) Or when is a child in need not a child in need? This was the judicial review of Lambeth's decision not to support TG as a 'former relevant child', he being over 18. The...
Birmingham City Council v Clue [2010] EWCA Civ 460 Ms Clue was a Jamaican national. She and her oldest daughter were given leave to come to the UK in 2000 as visitors. After 6 months, she applied for leave as a student, which was refused after appeal in...
R (A) v Croydon & R (M) v Lambeth UKSC [2009] 8 This was an appeal heard by the House of Lords over the course of four days in July, but with judgment delivered by the new Supreme Court. We reported the Court of Appeal's judgment here. At issue was to...
The Supreme Court has handed down judgment in the case of R (A) v Croydon and R (M) v Lambeth [2009] UKSC 8. This is an important decision about the duty of LAs under s.20(1) of the Children Act 1989 to "provide accommodation for any child in need within...
S (A Child), R (on the application of) v Plymouth City Council [2009] EWHC 1499 (Admin) Not sure how we missed this one and thanks to the Legal Action housing updates for the elbow to the ribs. This was a permission hearing on an application for judicial...
R (A) v Leicester City Council and the London Borough of Hillingdon [2009] EWHC 2351 (Admin) (only on Lawtel) is an attempt to answer the "interesting question" posed by the Court of Appeal in R (Liverpool CC) v LB Hillingdon and AK (interested party) [2009]...
R (G) v Southwark [2009] UKHL 26 was the appeal to the House of Lords of this Court of Appeal judgment. At issue was whether Southwark could effectively avoid its s.20 Children Act duty to accommodate a homeless child by referral to the Housing Department by...
The House of Lords has today given its judgment in the case of R (G) v Southwark [2009] UKHL 26. We reported the Court of Appeal decision here. A fuller report will follow on Nearly Legal in due course, but as we may not finish it today the headlines are:...
Apologies for not getting this one out on Friday or over the weekend. It was on my list, but, frankly, the details of this were off my usual turf and it took an hour or several to digest and fit in place. So, only a day or so late... A v London Borough of...
Southwark LBC are involved in two cases are being heard in the House of Lords next week. Hanoman v Southwark is a Right to Buy dispute and R (G) v Southwark is about whether there is a lawful distinction between a child who is "in need of accommodation" or...
R (MM) v LB of Lewisham [2009] EWHC 416 (Admin) Slapped wrists all round for Lewisham's Children's Social Care Services in another Children Act 1989 "child in need" case, but in this case the issue was not whether the claimant was a child, but whether she...