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S, R (on the application of) v A Social Security Commissioner & Ors [2009] EWHC 2221 (Admin) This was an application for Judicial Review of a decision of the Social Security Commissioner refusing leave to appeal a decision of the Social Security Appeal...
The House of Lords opinions in Hanoman (FC) (Respondent) v London Borough of Southwark (Appellants) [2009] UKHL 29 were handed down today. This was Southwark's appeal of a Court of Appeal judgment we noted here. Briefly, Mr Hanoman was a Southwark secure...
Yesiloz v London Borough of Southwark [2009] EWCA Civ 415 was concerned with whether a Turkish asylum seeker was entitled to housing benefit. Ms Yesiloz arrived in the UK in the late 1990s and claimed asylum. She moved into premises in Camden and claimed HB...
R (Prince) v Social Security Commissioners & SoS for the DWP & London Borough of Southwark (Interested parties)[2009] EWHC 1181 (Admin) concerns what can only be described as a bit of a chancer. Mr Prince had claimed Jobseekers Allowance. He had also claimed...
R (Best) v Oxford City Council [2009] EWHC 608 (Admin), [2009] All ER (D) 252, noted on this week's Garden Court Housing Law Bulletin, but not yet on BAILII. This is a judicial review that essentially turned on whether a local housing authority has a duty...
R (Gargett) v LB Lambeth [2008] EWCA Civ 1450; on appeal from [2008] EWHC 663 (Admin). A Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) is a discretionary payment made by a local housing authority to a person who is (a) in receipt of housing benefit or council tax...
The Hlpa meeting tonight (17/9/08) was a particularly interesting one, on the topic of disrepair. Talks were from Mel Cairns, Andrew Brookes of Anthony Gold and Marina Sergides of Garden Court. Among the end of meeting news items were: The current intent is...
R (on the application of Heffernan) (FC) (Appellant) v The Rent Service) (Respondents) [2008] UK 58 concerns the meaning of locality in para 4(6) of Part 1 Schedule 1 Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 1997. Locality serves to define the area by...
Hanoman v London Borough of Southwark [2008] EWCA Civ 624 Where a local authority landlord has failed to respond to a tenant's notice in time under the Right to Buy procedure, the tenant can serve an 'operative notice of delay' under s.153A(5) Housing Act...
A short note on Gargett, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Lambeth [2008] EWHC 663 (Admin) which was an application for Judicial Review on Discretionary Housing Payments. The applicant had applied for a DHP to cover rent arrears, being at risk of...
As an experiment, nearly live blogging from the HLPA AGM fell foul of having my mobile turned off. So this is 'on the way home from HLPA' blogging instead. Useful talks on Housing Benefit, particularly on the new Local Housing Allowance, in force from 7...