‘Content platforms in the UK can expect to receive more details on the steps they might need to take to address the risk of illegal online harms on 9 November, a regulator has confirmed after the Online Safety Act passed into UK law.’
OUT-LAW.com, 27th October 2023
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘The Home Office has been accused of unlawfully segregating asylum seekers from the local population based on their nationality by “falsely imprisoning” them on a remote Essex airbase.’
The Guardian, 25th October 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘This was the second appeal from a review decision upholding the suitability of an offer of a private sector tenancy in Walsall in discharge of Waltham Forest’s s.193 duty to Ms Webb-Harden. Ms Webb-Harden is a single mother with three children, who had lived in London all her life. She had become homeless from the termination of a private sector tenancy.’
Nearly Legal, 28th August 2023
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘The Claimant was a destitute asylum-seeker who was heavily pregnant and the mother of three young children.’
Garden Court Chambers, 31st July 2023
Source: www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk
‘Our grateful thanks to Daniel Grütters of One Pump Court for the following note and copy of the judgment in a section 204 appeal on the suitability of temporary accommodation.’
Nearly Legal, 28th July 2023
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘A new ruling has highlighted how claims concerning building defects that would otherwise be time-barred can still be raised under the 2022 Building Safety Act, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 14th July 2023
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Our grateful thanks to Eleri Griffiths and Martin Hodgson of One Pump Court for the following note of a judicial review of LB Harrow’s failure to provide suitable accommodation under section 193 Housing Act 1996, following on from Elkundi (our note) and while we await the Supreme Court decision in Imam v LB Croydon on mandatory orders in such cases.’
Nearly Legal, 4th June 2023
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Emily Howe, Kelly Lloyd and Laura Waby round up the latest housing law judgments of interest to housing associations and local authorities.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th May 2023
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A judicial review on three grounds:
i) Breach of section 193(2) Housing Act 1996 duty to secure suitable accommodation;
ii) The Westminster’s allocation policy was unlawful in that it denied the applicant medical need priority reasonable preference, restricting him to homeless reasonable preference; and
iii) Breach of the duty under section 166A(9)(a)(ii) Housing Act 1996 to provide the applicant sufficient information to permit the applicant to determine whether housing accommodation appropriate to his needs is likely to be available to him and, if so, how long it is likely to be before such accommodation becomes available for allocation to him.’
Nearly Legal, 8th May 2023
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Querino v Cambridge City Council. County Court at Cambridge, 29 March 2023. Continuing the trend (of which I wholeheartedly approve) of people sending me notes of judgments, the following is a note of a s.204 appeal of a suitability review decision from Toby Vanhegan of 4-5 Gray’s Inn and Manjinder Atwal of Duncan Lewis, for which we are very grateful. The issues were i) whether a “minded to” letter should have been sent, ii) whether the council should have been satisfied that the applicant could end his licence in time to take up the offer of Part VI accommodation, and iii) the review officer had wrongly excluded the applicant’s supporting material from CAFCASS.’
Nearly Legal, 1st May 2023
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘A new criminal offence of failing to prevent fraud is to be added to UK law and applied to large businesses and other large organisations.’
OUT-LAW.com, 12th April 2023
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘The London Housing Directors’ Group, with support from London Councils, has issued a report setting out best practice principles on how boroughs can go beyond their statutory and regulatory responsibilities to deliver the “highest possible housing standards”.’
Local Government Lawyer, 12th April 2023
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Afghan refugees who were resettled in London have lost a High Court bid to try to prevent them being sent to Manchester by the Home Office.’
Local Government Lawyer, 27th March 2023
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘In his fourth and final article in a short series which focuses on case law which may assist in the defence of claims against Highways Authorities under s.41 of the Highways Act 1980, and inspired at least in part by the wintery weather sweeping across the country, Jack Harding focuses on snow and ice on the highway.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th March 2023
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Speech by the Chief Coroner: Death in Custody Symposium.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 14th March 2023
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘This appeal raised an issue of statutory construction. It arises in the context of a type of equipment known as commercial multi-user GSM (Global Systems for Mobile Communications) gateway apparatus (“COMUGs”). GSM gateways are telecommunications equipment containing one or more SIM cards, as used in mobile phones. They enable phone calls and text messages from landlines to be routed directly on to mobile networks. When a call is routed through a GSM gateway, the only data transmitted over the network is the number and location of the SIM card in the GSM gateway. It does not transmit information such as the identity of the calling party and (in the case of a mobile phone) the user’s location, as would ordinarily be the case without a GSM gateway.’
UKSC Blog, 8th March 2023
Source: ukscblog.com
‘The disappearance of hundreds of asylum seeking children out of Home Office run hotels is an issue of acute national concern. After the Observer reported on 21 January 2023 that “[d]ozens of asylum-seeking children ha[d] been kidnapped by gangs from a Brighton hotel run by the Home Office in a pattern apparently being repeated across the south coast”, Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick informed the House of Commons that 440 children had gone missing from six hotels since July 2021. Some had been found but 200 remained missing. On 18 February the Observer further reported that children taken from Home Office hotels in Sussex had been found in 18 different police areas. On 26 January over 100 charities wrote to the Prime Minister to request an end to the “unlawful and harmful” practice of placing asylum seeking children in hotels prior to their transfer to local authority care. The charities demanded an urgent independent inquiry into the scandal.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 23rd February 2023
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘The Supreme Court has granted the London Borough of Croydon permission to appeal in a dispute over mandatory relief in cases where councils have failed to provide suitable accommodation for a person owed the main housing duty.’
Local Government Lawyer, 26th January 2023
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Local Government Association (LGA) has said the Government must ensure funding is made available for the successful implementation of a new law which requires venues to take steps to protect the public from terror attacks.’
Local Government Lawyer, 20th December 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Councils, NHS trusts and other local bodies will be required to consider how their decision-making impacts upon members of the Armed Forces community, under a new duty introduced last week (22 November).’
Local Government Lawyer, 28th November 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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