The Weekly Law Reports
[2005] 3 WLR 252
House of Lords
Regina (Kehoe)
v
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2005] UKHL 48
2005 May 9,
10;
July 14
July 14
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Baroness Hale of Richmond and Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood
Human rights
— Right to fair trial
— Determination of civil rights and obligations
— Child Support Agency
— Maintenance assessment on absent father
— Mother prohibited from bringing enforcement proceedings
— Whether mother's civil rights engaged
— Whether breach of right to fair trial
— Whether right to seek judicial review curing breach
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Child Support Act 1991 (c 48), s. 8 (as amended by Social Security Act 1998 (c 14), Sch. 7, para 22)
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), ss. 4(1)(2), 6(1), 7(1)(a), Sch. 1, Pt I, art 6(1)