‘The High Court has dismissed a judicial review application brought on behalf of a young woman with severe disabilities in relation to the local council’s provision of same-sex personal and intimate care for women service users.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘In a judgment handed down on 18 December 2024, the High Court declared that the Secretary of State for the Home Department (‘SSHD’) breached her duty to provide adequate asylum accommodation under sections 95 and 96 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. The High Court granted a mandatory order requiring the Claimants (C1 and C2) to be moved to adequate accommodation that would meet the needs of the C2, a severely disabled child.’
Garden Court Chambers, 19th December 2025
Source: gardencourtchambers.co.uk
‘The law in relation to national non-domestic rates (Business Rates) contains a high level dichotomy. This dichotomy is between:
(1) compiling and maintaining the rating lists (central and local) – typically know as the “non-domestic rating lists” or simply the “lists”; and
(2) collection and enforcement of the tax due.
Each of these may be subdivided further, in respect to the entity that is tasked with undertaking these.’
33 Bedford Row, 14th January 2025
Source: www.33bedfordrow.co.uk
‘NHS managers who silence whistleblowers or endanger patients through misconduct face being sacked and barred from working in the health service for life under radical government plans to regulate thousands of bosses for the first time.’
The Guardian, 24th November 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) has found that Birmingham City Council failed to provide suitable accommodation to a family placed in bed and breakfast (B&B) accommodation for more than 26 weeks, 20 weeks over the maximum time such accommodation can be used for homeless applicants with dependent children.’
Local Government Lawyer, 22nd August 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘NFCC says statutory safety standards would raise emergency response to flooding and wildfires in line with rest of UK.’
The Guardian, 23rd August 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘ZRR, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Bexley (2024) EWHC 2073 (Admin). This was a judicial review of Bexley’s contention that temporary accommodation offered to ZRR under s.190 Housing Act 1996 was suitable and its duty was discharged when ZRR refused that accommodation.’
Nearly Legal, 11th August 2024
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Highway authorities have a statutory duty to assert and protect the rights of the public to the use and enjoyment of any highway for which they are the highway authority (Section 130 of the Highways Act 1980) and part of this statutory duty is to try to prevent obstruction of highways.’
Local Government Lawyer, 2nd August 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The High Court has rejected a legal challenge brought by a school over an inspection report issued by Ofsted following two separate inspections.’
Local Government Lawyer, 23rd July 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘R (AO) v LB of Haringey (Central London Administrative Court, 9 May 2024). Interim relief was granted in favour of a mother and two primary school aged children who were being accommodated by the Defendant local authority under section 188(1) Housing Act 1996 in unsuitable bed and breakfast accommodation. The Court considered arguments that a mandatory order should not be made because of resource constraints and applied the Supreme Court decision of R (Imam) v Croydon London Borough Council (2023) UKSC 45, [2023] 3 WLR 1178 (“Imam”).’
Nearly Legal, 7th July 2024
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘On 5 June 2024, the Administrative Court gave its final word on relief in the (relatively) long running ECPAT UK judicial review (see R (ECPAT UK) v Kent County Council [2024] EWHC 1353 (Admin)). The case centred on Kent County Council’s (“KCC”) failure to meet its statutory duty to look after unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (“UAS children”) arriving at its coast and the Home Secretary’s systematic, routine and (ultimately) unlawful use of hotels to accommodate them outside of the care system. While the Court’s findings of illegality on the part of both defendants were uncontroversial – indeed KCC conceded it was acting (owing to a purported lack of resource) illegally (see R (ECPAT UK) v Kent CC, SSHD [2023] EWHC 1953 (Admin), para 161) – it was the Court’s willingness to extend its usual role and monitor the defendants’ compliance with its ruling which makes this case unique.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 1st July 2024
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘What is the correct approach to determining the suitability of accommodation when the applicant’s circumstances engage rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)? This is an issue of general public importance affecting local authorities discharging homelessness duties under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996. Who says? Andrews LJ, when she directed that an appeal from Mr Rabah Ghaoui should proceed to a hearing.’
Law Society's Gazette, 14th May 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Bano, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Waltham Forest (2024) EWHC 654 (Admin). Waltham Forest owed Ms Bano the full housing duty. In June 2020, WF made an offer of a private sector tenancy in Derby. Ms Bano refused the offer as unsuitable. In disputed evidence, it was said that Ms Bano’s daughter made a review request by WhatsApp on 14 June 2020. WF sent a cancellation of temporary accommodation letter on 19 August 2020. Solicitors for Ms Bano made a request for a review in September 2020, which WF refused as out of time.’
Nearly Legal, 12th May 2024
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Piers Riley-Smith analyses a Court of Appeal case concerning whether there was a legal power to vary an Abatement Notice issued under s.80 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.’
Local Government Lawyer, 8th May 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Work and Pensions Committee is conducting an inquiry on a highly important matter: how vulnerable welfare claimants are safeguarded by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), and whether changes ought to be made. In the course of this work, it has raised this important question: should the DWP be placed under a statutory duty for safeguarding vulnerable claimants?’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 16th April 2024
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘A briefing on reporting child abuse in England, including Government plans to introduce a mandatory reporting duty.’
House of Commons Library, 28th February 2024
Source: commonslibrary.parliament.uk
‘The UK government’s consultation on proposed changes to the requirements for standard tier premises under draft anti-terrorism legislation confirms a commitment to proportionality. However, questions remain, including on what businesses must do to protect against acts of terrorism, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 14th February 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Lee Parkhill reviews new Government guidance on the joint duty under s.117 of the Mental Health Act 1983.’
Local Government Lawyer, 2nd February 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘In a December 2023 decision, the UK Supreme Court sought to clarify how courts should use their remedial discretion to make mandatory orders against local authorities. In doing so, the Court arguably made the right to be provided with housing (in the form of suitable accommodation) a justiciable right for certain categories of homeless persons.’
Oxford Human Rights Hub, 23rd January 2024
Source: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk
‘In TS, R (on the application of) v The London Borough of Hackney [2023] EWHC 3063 (Admin), Jonathan Glasson KC, sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court, quashed the council’s assessment and care planning decision, concluding that the decision making in relation to the care package was “flawed”.’
Local Government Lawyer, 7th December 2023
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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