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Housing, Migrant support | Friday 22 June 2018
Young people brought to UK under ‘Dubs amendment’ to be eligible for homelessness assistance and allocation of social housing
The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2018, SI 2018/730
Housing, Migrant support | Friday 22 June 2018
Trafficking victims: suitable accommodation and damages
XPQ v Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council [2018] EWHC 1391 (QB), 7 June 2018
Housing | Friday 22 June 2018
Housing and disabled people - Britain's hidden crisis: an inquiry by the Equality and Human Rights Commission
“I have not been outside since 2011 except for essential hospital stays. My flat is on the second floor with no lift; it is not wheelchair accessible, and although I have and need a power wheelchair, I cannot even use it indoors as the flat is not adapted
Welfare benefits | Friday 22 June 2018
EU co-ordination rules do not provide for entitlement to child benefit in respect of a step child resident in another Member State
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs v MB: [2018] UKUT 162 (AAC), Judge Jacobs, 8 May 2018
Welfare benefits | Friday 22 June 2018
A child’s right to education and a parent's derivative right to reside is dependent on a common period of residence when the parent was a worker
In Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council v HY (HB): [2018] UKUT 103 (AAC), Judge Ward, 23 March 2018, the claimant, HY, a Dutch national, had moved to the UK in December 2012.
Migrant support, Welfare benefits | Friday 22 June 2018
'Windrush generation': Guidance issued to local authorities on the handling of Housing Benefit cases
On 4 May 2018 the DWP has issued an Urgent Bulletin to local authorities on how to deal with housing benefit claims from the ‘Windrush generation’.
Housing | Friday 22 June 2018
Second successors: unsuccessful Article 8 and public law defence to possession proceedings
Turner v Enfield London Borough Council [2018] EWHC 1431 (QB), 25 May 2018
Court of Protection | Wednesday 30 May 2018
Court of Protection: Costs order against local authority for delay in applying for review required under Re X order
LB Harrow v (1) AT (by his litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) (2) DT [2017] EWCOP 37, HHJ Hilder, 14 May 2018
