Category: homelessness

Makisi v Birmingham City Council; Yosief v Same; Nagi v Same – WLR Daily

Posted April 7th, 2011 in appeals, dispute resolution, homelessness, housing, law reports, local government by sally

Makisi v Birmingham City Council; Yosief v Same; Nagi v Same [2011] EWCA Civ 355; [2011] WLR (D) 124

“An applicant for housing under the homelessness provisions who, on an review of a decision to refuse accommodation, had a right to make oral representations where there had been a deficiency or irregularity in the original decision, could insist on a face-to-face hearing with the reviewer at which he or his representative could make representations.”

WLR Daily, 31st March 2011

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Young offenders leaving custody for life of homelessness and reoffending – The Guardian

Posted February 28th, 2011 in charities, homelessness, housing, news, recidivists, reports, young offenders by sally

“Children as young as 13 are being released from custody without a safe place to live, forcing them into a cycle of homelessness and reoffending, research has shown.”

Full story

The Guardian, 28th February 2011

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Yemshaw v Hounslow London Borough Council – WLR Daily

Posted January 28th, 2011 in domestic violence, homelessness, law reports, matrimonial home by sally

Yemshaw v Hounslow London Borough Council [2011] UKSC 3; [2011] WLR (D) 18

 ” ‘Domestic violence’ in section 177(1) of the Housing Act 1996 included physical violence, threatening or intimidating behaviour and any other form of abuse which, directly or indirectly, might give rise to the risk of harm.”

WLR Daily, 26th January 2011

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Pieretti v Enfield London Borough Council – WLR Daily

Posted October 14th, 2010 in disability discrimination, homelessness, housing, law reports, local government by sally

Pieretti v Enfield London Borough Council [2010] EWCA Civ 1104; [2010] WLR (D) 248

“S 49A(1)(d) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 required a local authority, in carrying out its functions under Pt VII of the Housing Act 1996, to take due steps to take account of a disabled persons’ disabilities.”

WLR Daily, 13th October 2010

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Lekpo-Bozua v Hackney London Borough Council (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government intervening) – WLR Daily

Posted July 30th, 2010 in appeals, children, homelessness, housing, immigration, law reports, local government by sally

Lekpo-Bozua v Hackney London Borough Council (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government intervening) [2010] EWCA Civ 909; [2010] WLR (D) 208

“An applicant for accommodation could establish a priority need under the Housing Act 1996 because a dependent child was residing with her, where the dependent child was an European Economic Area national from abroad, even though the child did not have a permanent right to reside but was subject to immigration control, but the housing authority’s duty was then the restricted duty provided for under s 193(7AA) of the 1996 Act as amended. Under either the amended or unamended provisions the duty would have been the full duty had the dependent child had a right of permanent residence in the United Kingdom. Moreover, a failure by the host member state to enforce the removal of the dependent child after three months did not graduate by waiver to her acquiring a permanent right to residence.”

WLR Daily, 28th July 2010

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Ali and another v Birmingham City Council (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government intervening) – WLR Daily

Posted March 24th, 2010 in homelessness, housing, law reports, local government, Supreme Court by sally

Ali and another v Birmingham City Council (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government intervening) [2010] UKSC 8; [2010] WLR (D) 86

“A local housing authority’s duty, under section 193 of the Housing Act 1996, to secure that accommodation be made available for an unintentionally homeless person who had a priority need did not give the homeless person a ‘civil right’ within the meaning of art 6(1) of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms because the provision of appropriate accommodation was dependent upon the exercise of evaluative judgments by the local authority as to whether the statutory criteria had been satisfied and how the homeless person’s need ought to be met.”

WLR Daily, 23rd March 2010

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R (Savage) v Hillingdon London Borough Council – WLR Daily

Posted February 2nd, 2010 in homelessness, housing, judicial review, law reports, local government by sally

R (Savage) v Hillingdon London Borough Council [2009] EWHC 88 (Admin); [2010] WLR (D) 15

“In the discharge of its duty to provide advice and assistance to an intentionally homeless claimant, the local authority had to apply its policy flexibly and take into account the claimant’s own particular circumstances.”

WLR Daily, 1st February 2010

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De-Winter Heald and others v Brent London Borough Council – WLR Daily

Posted September 7th, 2009 in contracting out, homelessness, housing, law reports, local government by sally

De-Winter Heald and others v Brent London Borough Council [2009] EWCA Civ 930; [2009] WLR (D) 289

“Local housing authorities were entitled to contract out some or all of the reviews they were required to carry out under s 202 of the Housing Act 1996.”

WLR Daily, 4th September 2009

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Regina (Aweys and Others) v Birmingham City Council; Moran v Manchester City Council – Times Law Reports

Posted July 7th, 2009 in homelessness, housing, law reports, statutory interpretation by sally

Regina (Aweys and Others) v Birmingham City Council; Moran v Manchester City Council

House of Lords

“A local housing authority had been entitled to decide that overcrowded families were homeless but to leave them there in the short term; it was a question of fact what term was too long.”

The Times, 7th July 2009

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Birmingham City Council v Ali and others; Moran v Manchester City Council (Women’s Aid Federation of England and another intervening) – WLR Daily

Posted July 2nd, 2009 in homelessness, housing, law reports by sally

Birmingham City Council v Ali and others; Moran v Manchester City Council (Women’s Aid Federation of England and another intervening) [2009] UKHL 36; [2009] WLR (D) 221

“Although it had not been reasonable for families to remain in their current accommodation indefinitely, the local housing authority had been entitled to leave them there in the short term, it being a question of fact whether the period was too long, but the authority had not been entitled to rely on its allocation policy to fulfil its duty. It had not been reasonable for a woman to continue to occupy a women’s refuge indefinitely, and she had accordingly remained “homeless” under the Housing Act 1996.”

WLR Daily, 1st July 2009

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Regina (G) v Southwark London Borough Council – Times Law Reports

Posted June 4th, 2009 in children, homelessness, law reports, social services by sally

Regina (G) v Southwark London Borough Council

House of Lords

“A local authority’s children’s services unit could not purport to fulfil its duties to look after a homeless child merely by referring him to the homeless persons unit.”

The Times, 4th June 2009

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Regina (G) v Southwark London Borough Council – WLR Daily

Posted May 21st, 2009 in children, homelessness, law reports, social services by sally

Regina (G) v Southwark London Borough Council [2009] UKHL 26; [2009] WLR (D) 159

“When a child aged 16 or 17 who had been excluded from his family home applied to the children’s service department of the local authority for accommodation under s 20 of the Children Act 1989, and he satisfied all the requirements of s 20(1), it was not open to the authority to refer the child to the local housing authority for accommodation as a homeless person under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996.”

WLR Daily, 20th May 2009

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Banks v Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council – Times Law Reports

Posted March 10th, 2009 in homelessness, housing, law reports by sally

Banks v Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council

Court of Appeal

“A reviewing officer considering an appeal against the refusal of a housing authority of a request for accommodation as a homeless person in priority need should, where he was minded to confirm the refusal on different grounds, give the applicant an opportunity to make further representations.”

The Times, 10th March 2009

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Ugiagbe v Southwark London Borough Council – Times Law Reports

Posted February 18th, 2009 in homelessness, housing, law reports, local government by sally

Ugiagbe v Southwark London Borough Council

Court of Appeal

“Failure to follow informal advice to go to a local housing authority’s homeless persons unit when threatened with eviction, did not make an applicant intentionally homeless.”

The Times, 18th February 2009

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Ugiagbe v Southwark London Borough Council – WLR Daily

Posted February 12th, 2009 in homelessness, housing, law reports, local government by sally

Ugiagbe v Southwark London Borough Council [2009] EWCA Civ 31; [2009] WLR (D) 47

“A person’s failure to go to the Homeless Persons Unit for advice before leaving accommodation which she occupied did not amount to a lack of ‘good faith’ for the purposes of s 191(2) of the Housing Act 1996 rendering her intentionally homeless.”

WLR Daily, 11th February 2009

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Holmes-Moorhouse v London Borough of Richmond upon Thames – WLR Daily

Posted February 6th, 2009 in children, homelessness, housing, law reports, residence orders by sally

Holmes-Moorhouse v London Borough of Richmond upon Thames [2009] UKHL 7; [2009] WLR (D) 31

“When a court in family proceedings made a shared residence order providing for children to spend alternate weeks with each of their parents, and the father was homeless, a housing authority was not obliged, on account of the order, to regard the father as a person in priority need of accommodation on the ground that dependent children might reasonably expected to reside with him.”

WLR Daily, 4th February 2009

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Banks v Kingston upon Thames Royal Borough Council – WLR Daily

Posted December 19th, 2008 in homelessness, housing, law reports by sally

Banks v Kingston upon Thames Royal Borough Council [2008] EWCA Civ 1443; [2008] WLR (D) 397

“A purposive interpretation should be given to reg 8(2) of the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Review Procedures) Regulations 1999 to ensure that, where a reviewing officer was minded to confirm a decision on different grounds, the applicant should be given an opportunity to make representations.”

WLR Daily, 18th December 2008

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Simms v Islington London Borough Council – Times Law Reports

Posted December 3rd, 2008 in drug abuse, homelessness, housing, law reports by sally

Simms v Islington London Borough Council

Court of Appeal

“The risk that a recovering drug addict’s relapse might be caused by his homelessness did not entitle him to be treated as having a priority need for accommodation.”

The Times, 3rd December 2008

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Ali v Birmingham City Council; Ibrahim v Birmingham City Council – WLR daily

Posted November 11th, 2008 in homelessness, housing, law reports by sally

Ali v Birmingham City Council; Ibrahim v Birmingham City Council [2008] EWCA Civ 1228; [2008] WLR (D) 349

“A local housing authority’s discharge of its statutory duty to rehouse a homeless person in priority need where that person had refused an offer of suitable accommodation could not be challenged other than by administrative review subject appeal to the county court, which was the equivalent of judicial review rather than a full rehearing appeal, even where the sole issue for the reviewing officer was a simple one of primary fact. The European Court of Human Rights’ decision in Tsfayo v United Kingdom [2007] LGR 1 did not change the relevant law.”

WLR Daily, 10th November 2008

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Boreh v Ealing London Borough Council – Times Law Reports

Posted November 11th, 2008 in homelessness, housing, law reports by sally

Boreh v Ealing London Borough Council

Court of Appeal

“The suitability of accommodation offered by a local authority was not to be judged exclusively by reference to its condition at the time of the offer, but could and should take into account any adaptations or alterations that were proposed to be made at the date of the council’s review decision.”

The Times, 11th November 2008

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