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Category Archives: Housing
Challenging discretionary housing payments by way of judicial review
Desmond Rutledge looks at the role discretionary housing payments (DHPs) have assumed in the wake of the Government’s welfare reform programme and examines the scope for challenging DHP decisions. The changing role of discretionary housing payments The discretionary housing payments … Continue reading
Why the human rights challenge to the ‘bedroom tax’ failed
Desmond Rutledge examines why the Court of Appeal in MA and Others refused to apply the reasoning in Burnip to disabled adults in the social sector who need an extra bedroom. Burnip and the bedroom criteria in the private sector … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, Welfare benefits
Tagged Bedroom Tax, Court of Appeal, Housing Benefit, welfare benefits
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Why We Can’t Trust Judges to Beat the Bedroom Tax
Liz Davies explains that, although the courts may be able to help a few individuals, we need to step up the political battle. Judges – and lawyers – can’t be trusted to uphold social justice. In July, two senior judges … Continue reading
Posted in Housing
Tagged Bedroom Tax, Housing Benefit, Liz Davies, Social Justice, Welfare reform
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When is Judicial Review Available as a Remedy in Relation to Housing Benefit Issues Where There are Possession Proceedings for Rent Arrears?
Desmond Rutledge considers the scenarios in which judicial review is available as a solution to certain housing benefit issues and provides specific examples of housing benefit decisions that are susceptible to judicial review. Where possession proceedings for rent arrears are based on … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, News
Tagged Desmond Rutledge, Housing, Housing Benefit, Housing Law, Judicial review, Public Law, Social Welfare Law, welfare, welfare benefits
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The lawlessness of private rent lets us all down
Liz Davies considers the ways in which landlords have benefited from the credit crisis and explores how tenants could be given increased security through five-year tenancies. Landlords, like bankers and pay-day loan companies, have done well from the credit crisis … Continue reading
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Tagged Housing, Housing Law, Landlords, Liz Davies, Private Rented Sector, Tenancies
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The impact of the revocation of the temporary stop notice regulations on Gypsies and Travellers: the road to nowhere
Marc Willers examines why changes to temporary stop notice provisions risk forcing Gypsies and Travellers onto the roadside. Romani Gypsies and Irish Travellers have lived in the United Kingdom in their caravans in accordance with their traditional way of life … Continue reading
Posted in Gypsy and Traveller Law, Housing, Human Rights
Tagged Gypsies, Housing, Temporary stop notice, Travellers
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The time to act on the bedroom tax is now
At a time when the bedroom tax is coming to dominate debates about housing and fairness in our society, Liz Davies considers the options available to local councils in resisting this policy of central government. Green Party-controlled Brighton & Hove … Continue reading
Save UK Justice!
Yesterday’s Save Justice demonstration outside the Ministry of Justice brought together thousands of people campaigning to save the vital services provided to some of the most vulnerable in society by legal aid lawyers. Among the speakers was Stephen Knafler QC, … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Law, Family Law, Housing, Human Rights, Immigration, Prison Law
Tagged Children Law, Community Care, Crime, Family Law, Housing, justice, Legal aid, Prison Law, Public Services, Save Justice
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The Future of Legal Aid – Why we Need to Act Now
Connor Johnston, co-chair of the Young Legal Aid Lawyers, discusses the latest threats to legal aid On 23 April 2013 I gave a short talk at the Westminster Policy Forum on the “future market for publicly funded legal services”. The … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Law, Housing, Human Rights, Immigration, News, Prison Law
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The Unkindest Cut of All
Jan Luba QC discusses the Government’s plan to abolish council tax benefit and its implications Although hardly anyone seems to know about it, the Government is about to abolish a scheme that provides nearly £5 billion a year to help the … Continue reading
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