“A Big Issue seller is claiming victory in a landmark case to have her work classed as a proper job and thus be eligible for extra benefits.”
The Guardian, 17th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government’s plans to reform welfare were badly hit on Wednesday when it suffered three defeats in the House of Lords on proposed benefit cuts.”
The Guardian, 11th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Three men from Bridgwater, Somerset, who ‘bullied’ motorists out of thousands of pounds in an illegal clamping business have been jailed.”
BBC News, 19th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Crown Prosecution Service fees (further update).”
The Bar Council, 16th December 2011
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“A 37-year-old Bridgend mother-of-four has been given a 10-month suspended jail term after admitting fraudulently claiming more than £69,000 in benefits.”
BBC News, 16th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Elmi: [2011] EWCA Civ 1403; [2011] WLR (D) 353
“A person from abroad who had ticked a form at a job centre to confirm she was seeking work and then applied for income support satisfied the requirement in article 7(3)(c) of the Citizens Direction that she was registered as a job seeker and was entitled to income support.”
WLR Daily, 18th October 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A woman who claimed nearly £20,000 in benefits intended for severely disabled people has been jailed after she was filmed going down a water slide.”
BBC News, 5th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government is taking legal action over rules it says would allow non-EU nationals in the UK to claim benefits without working or paying taxes.”
BBC News, 1st December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ministers have been forced to hire more than 80 new judges in a multi-million pound effort to address appeals by welfare claimants who dispute the loss of their benefits.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“LAG commissioned the disability charity Scope to research the impact of the proposed cuts in legal aid on benefits advice for disabled people. The report, Legal aid in welfare: the tool we can’t afford to lose, which is published today, demonstrates the serious consequences of the government’s proposals on disabled people and argues that taking benefits advice out of scope will undermine the government’s welfare reform programme.”
LAG News Blog, 14th November 2011
“People on benefits who are fined in court could face a fivefold increase in the amount docked from their weekly payments to cover the penalty, David Cameron will announce on Saturday as the government response to the riots is intensified.”
The Guardian, 29th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ministers are being urged not to restrict legal aid for disabled people wanting to challenge benefit decisions.”
BBC News, 31st October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“On 13 October 2011 Mr Justice Supperstone in the High Court held that changes to rules for calculating housing benefit were lawful and in particular did not breach equality legislation.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 14th October 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“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
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