SR v Lambeth London Borough Council, County Court at Central London, 21st October 2021 H40CL201 – HHJ Roberts (unreported elsewhere) Our thanks to Justine Compton of Garden Court Chambers for the following note of a section 204 appeal judgment on a priority...
Section 204 appeals – weighing medical evidence and ending ‘relief duty’
Perrott v Hackney London Borough Council, 29 Janaury 2021, Central London County Court (unreported - approved judgment here) and Perrott v Hackney London Borough Council, 29 January 2021, Central London County Court (unreported - approved judgment here) Two...
A failure to engage – ‘Medical advisors’ on homeless vulnerability
Cherry v LB Tower Hamlets. County Court at Central London, 11th January 2018 This is a s.204 appeal of a 'not vulnerable' review decision by LB Tower Hamlets. It is of particular interest because of the consideration of the role and place of the 'medical...
Shala revisited?
London Borough of Wandsworth v Allison [2008] EWCA Civ 354 is a Court of Appeal judgment on an appeal from a s.204 Housing Act 1996 appeal. It was made in downright odd circumstances, as the respondent had won the s.204 appeal but then had public funding...