Latest Updates
Welfare benefits | Thursday 1 July 2021
Change to DWP guidance on recovering hardship payments for sanctioned Universal Credit claimants
Matthew Ahluwalia of the Garden Court Chambers Welfare Benefits Team was one of the counsel in the case. He was instructed by Sarah Clarke and Emma Vincent Miller of Public Law Project.
Adult social care, Children, Health care, Mental health | Thursday 1 July 2021
High Court orders fresh assessment of 16-year-old's needs after Discharge Care Programme Approach document under s117 MHA 1983 deemed unlawful
Blog post by Tim Baldwin of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. R. (on the application of AK, by her mother and litigation friend GK) v Islington LBC, North Central London Clinical Commissioning Group [2021] EWHC 301 (Admin)
Housing | Friday 30 April 2021
Social Welfare Update: Security of tenure for person accommodated by local authority under Everyone In
Blog post by Connor Johnston of the Garden Court Housing Team. R (Abudah Ali Ibrahim) v Haringey LBC and Capital Home Services Ltd [2021] EWHC 731 (QB), 30 March 2021
Adult social care, Welfare benefits | Friday 30 April 2021
Social Welfare Update: Norfolk Council’s policy on charging for services unlawfully discriminated against severely disabled service-users and breached their Human Rights
Blog post by Tim Baldwin of the Garden Court Chambers Community Care Team. R (SH acting through her mother and litigation friend MH) v Norfolk CC [2020] EWHC 3436 (Admin): Griffiths J
Capacity, Court of Protection | Friday 30 April 2021
Social Welfare Update: Making arrangements for paid for sexual services for a person who lacked capacity to make those arrangements was not an offence under s 39 Sexual Offences Act 2003
Blog post by Bethan Harris of the Garden Court Chambers Court of Protection Team. A Local Authority -and- C (by his litigation friend, AB), A Clinical Commissioning Group and Secretary of State for Justice [2021] EWCOP 25, Hayden J, 26 April 2021
Housing | Friday 30 April 2021
Social Welfare Update: Circumstances in which court will grant mandatory order requiring local authority to provide ‘suitable’ accommodation
Blog post by Connor Johnston of the Garden Court Housing Team. R (Imam) v The London Borough of Croydon [2021] EWHC 739 (Admin), 26 March 2021
Welfare benefits | Friday 30 April 2021
Social Welfare Update: Person subject to immigration control cannot claim Carer’s Allowance as a family member of a British national who has not exercised freedom of movement rights
Blog post by Desmond Rutledge of the Garden Court Chambers Welfare Benefits Team. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v AS (CA) [2021] UKUT 24 (AAC)
