R (Morris) v Westminster City Council – Discrimination in Allocation of Housingchild lawfamily lawECHRdependent childrenaccommodationdiscriminationsocial rightsThis article provides an analysis of R (Morris) v Westminster City Council, (Morris) recently upheld by the Court of Appeal. Keith J issued a...
Met Police says it was not a crime for council staff to proposition children for sex in 1984 Keith Hinchliffe, the child sex abuse survivor, who got his predator sentenced to six years in jail 40 years after he abused him for three years , is facing an uphill battle with the Met Polic...
Events took an extraordinary turn when the lease came up for renewal . After her horse died Lauren Sapsted demanded the parish paid for security cameras to be put up on the land which costing £14,000 – more than the annual rent. The parish council demurred in drawing up such a contr...
such as Housing Benefit, Council Tax Support, Personal Independence Allowance, Attendance Allowance and Carers Allowance. Even this would not be enough though because many pensioners on low incomes or in vulnerable circumstances would still miss out on a WFP when they can ill afford to do so. Th...
The Supreme Court has allowed Westminster City Council’s appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal as to the proper interpretation and scope of a local authority’s duty to provide accommodation under the National Assistance Act 1948, s 21(1)(a). The relevant law and facts are ...
Council housing groups lobby Westminster for fundingBy James Illman
Metropolitan Workshop has won planning permission for reworked proposals to redevelop a run of Westminster city council-owned garages into three new homes. Its plans for Ordnance Mews in affluent St John's Wood were drawn up for City West Homes, the council's arm's-length housing organisation,...