“A west London council acted unlawfully by refusing to allow a 21-year-old autistic man to be placed in the care of his father, the High Court ruled.”
BBC News, 9th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina (Shoesmith) v OFSTED and others [2011] EWCA Civ 642; [2011] WLR (D) 184
“The report of Ofsted into child safeguarding arrangements within a local authority, requested by the Secretary of State for Education following the death of a child while on the authority’s child protection register, was properly and fairly carried out under the statutory requirements of section 20 of the Children Act 2004. In the circumstances, more formal and demanding standards were not obligatory.”
WLR Daily, 27th May 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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“Twitter has been forced to hand over the personal details of a British user in a libel battle that could have huge implications for free speech on the web.”
The Guardian, 29th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A father has described in court how he felt ‘powerless’ when a local authority prevented the return home of his autistic son for nearly a year during a bitter care dispute with a local council.”
The Independent, 28th May 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Oxford City Council v Bull [2011] EWCA Civ 609; [2011] WLR (D) 169
“Where the father of children who resided with their mother, from whom he was separated, allowed them to share his one-room accommodation, he became homeless intentionally, within the meaning of section 191(1) of the Housing Act 1996, on being evicted from that accommodation.”
WLR Daily, 18th May 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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Avon Estates Ltd v Welsh Ministers and another [2011] EWCA Civ 55; [2011] WLR (D) 168
“Conditions attached to planning permission granted for a limited period could not be enforced against the landowner when the permissions had become spent and the planning authority had failed to enforce the removal of the building or the cessation of the permitted use so that the buildings became immune from enforcement action.”
WLR Daily, 16th May 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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“Britain’s biggest council has been told its plans to cut care services for elderly and severely disabled people are ‘unlawful’ and must be scrapped, in a landmark High Court judgement with wide-ranging implications for social care.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“High Court judges are to make a ruling on council care cuts that will have implications for all local authorities in England and Wales.”
BBC News, 19th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The owners of a Ceredigion holiday park have won a court ruling over the right to use their 42 chalets all year round.”
BBC News, 16th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“New laws have been enforced by an East Yorkshire council to try and combat people jumping into the sea from a height or ‘tombstoning’.”
BBC News, 14th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina (Nassery) v Brent London Borough Council [2011] EWCA Civ 539; [2011] WLR (D) 156
“Where a local authority was assessing whether a person was ‘in need of care and attention’ for the purposes of section 21(1)(a) of the National Assistance Act 1948 the primary focus was on present rather than future needs, but provided there was a present need for some sort of care an authority was also empowered to intervene before it became much worse.”
WLR Daily, 11th May 2011
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“A former housing association director claims he was sacked because he found a £800,000 deficit in Gwynedd council home transfer proposals.”
BBC News, 11th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina (G) v Lambeth London Borough Council and another [2011] EWCA Civ 526; [2011] WLR (D) 152
“Accommodation ostensibly provided to a child aged 16 to 17 by a council as a local housing authority was to be deemed to be accommodation provided by it as a children’s services authority where the child met the criteria of a ‘child in need’ within section 17(10) of the Children Act 1989 and the actions of a social worker working for the council in a different team could properly be imputed to the social services division. Consequently on reaching adulthood that person became a ‘former relevant child’ within section 23C(1) of the 1989 Act, as inserted, and was owed the duties set out in that section.”
WLR Daily, 6th May 2011
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“The Law Commission is recommending the most far-reaching reforms of adult social care law seen for over 60 years, in a report published today.”
Law Commission, 11th May 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Elderly people will be guaranteed a minimum level of council help under plans for the most radical overhaul of social care in 60 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Disabled people are using the courts to challenge multimillion-pound spending cuts which they say will hit them hardest.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Sharif v Camden London Borough Council [2011] EWCA Civ 463; [2011] WLR (D) 148
“A local housing authority’s duty under section 193(2) of the Housing Act 1996 to secure that accommodation was available for occupation by a homeless applicant was not discharged by providing two self-contained flats with no shared communal living areas, one for occupation by the applicant and her sister and the other for occupation by her father, because such accommodation was not available for occupation by the applicant together with any other persons who normally resided with her as members of her family within the meaning of section 176 of the 1996 Act.”
WLR Daily, 20th April 2011
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“Two county councils which want to close libraries in the west of England are facing a judicial review.”
BBC News, 3rd May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A group of English local authorities are mounting a legal challenge against government budget cuts tied to its academies expansion programme.”
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BBC News, 3rd May 2011
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“The public will be effectively barred from fighting incompetent doctors and councils in the courts under plans to cut legal aid, the body representing lawyers warned yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st April 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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