“The European Commission has threatened to take legal action against Britain if ministers do not water down rules limiting foreigners’ ability to claim benefits.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Magistrates and crown court judges could be asked to dock benefits from convicted criminals under preliminary proposals being drawn up by the government in response to the riots, the Guardian can reveal.”
The Guardian, 7th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A military historian who faked an illustrious Army career has been jailed for three years.”
BBC News, 26th August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Unemployed offenders face a full week of unpaid work, including the possibility hard manual labour, under plans to toughen community penalties as an alternative to prison. Instructions will be issued to courts by the Ministry of Justice, urging them to make sure unemployed offenders sentenced to the ‘community payback’ programme work a minimum of 28 hours over a four-day week. They will spend the fifth day looking for work or face losing their jobseekers’ allowance.”
The Guardian, 24th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A military historian who faked an illustrious army career has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice.”
The Guardian, 4th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Serial killers including Ian Brady and Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper could be claiming hundreds of pounds a year in benefits, it has emerged.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
St Prix v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2011] EWCA Civ 806; [2011] WLR (D) 226
“A Union citizen who, when within the United Kingdom, ceased to work in circumstances other than those set out in paragraphs (a) to (d) of article 7(3) of the Citizenship Directive was not a ‘worker’ entitled to the relevant ‘right of residence’ for the purposes of article 7(1)(a) of the Directive; and pregnancy had deliberately been excluded from the conditions in which the status of worker was retained despite a cessation of work.”
WLR Daily, 13th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Family members from outside Europe who come to join close relatives settled in Britain are expected to be denied access to welfare benefits for up to five years under further plans to cut annual net migration to be detailed on Wednesday.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2011
source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government faces a legal challenge from charities over its plans to cut benefits for disabled people by more than £2bn.”
The Guardian, 2nd July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman who left the corpse of her mother at their Wirral home unburied for up to six months has been jailed.”
BBC News, 1st July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman who was filmed skydiving while claiming sickness benefits has been handed a suspended jail term.”
BBC News, 1st July 2011
Source; www.bbc.co.uk
“The first sub-paragraph of article 6(1) of the EEC-Turkey Association Council Decision 3/80 of 19 September 1980 on the application of the social security schemes of the member states of the European Communities to Turkish workers and members of their families (OJ 1983 C 110, p 60), which provided for the export of certain specified benefits, was directly effective. That provision precluded national legislation which withdrew the award of a benefit, such as the supplement to invalidity benefit, from former Turkish migrant workers when they had returned to Turkey after losing their right to remain in the host member state after becoming incapacitated in the that member state.”
WLR Daily, 26th May 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A judge’s unprecedented attempt to deliver a verdict on her own after allegations of jury-tampering in a fraud trial may be referred to the supreme court.”
The Guardian, 15th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A couple who lived a luxury lifestyle on the back of a £137,000 benefits swindle were both jailed for 16 months today.”
The Independent, 25th May 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A benefits cheat who was caught on CCTV brawling with police, despite claiming he could not leave home without a walking stick, has been jailed.”
BBC News, 17th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A gang of Romanian gypsies flew in and out of Britain to defraud taxpayers out of more than £800,000 through a series of benefit scams, a court has heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Bartlett and others v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Case (C-537/09); [2011] WLR (D) 158
“The mobility component of disability living allowance constituted a special non-contributory benefit within the meaning of article 4(2a) of and Annex IIa to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 118/97 and Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 631/2005, and of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 as amended by Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 647/2005. The provisions in article 10a of the Regulation and of the amended Regulation making the award of this benefit subject to conditions of residence and presence within the awarding member state were not contrary to the provisions of free movement of persons.”
WLR Daily, 5th May 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Borger v Tiroler Gebietskrankenkasse (Case C-516/09); [2011] WLR (D) 89
“The status of an ’employed person’, within the meaning of article 1(a) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71, as amended , applied to a person during a six-month period of extended unpaid leave following the birth of a child, provided that, during that period, that person was covered, even if only in respect of a single risk, on a compulsory or optional basis, by a general or special social security scheme mentioned in article 1(a) of that Regulation.”
WLR Daily, 10th March 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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“A third country national with dependent children who were European citizens, had, pursuant to article 20FEU of the FEU Treaty, a right of residence in the member state of residence and nationality of those children and was entitled to a work permit in so far as this enabled the children to enjoy the substance of the rights attaching to the status of European Union citizenship.”
WLR Daily, 10th March 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
“The government is facing a legal challenge to its controversial plans to cap housing benefit payments on the grounds that large areas of the south-east will become off limits to the poor, with lone parents and ethnic minorities ‘disproportionately affected’.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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