The Weekly Law Reports
[2002] 1 WLR 2491
Court of Appeal
Runa Begum
v
Tower Hamlets London Borough Council
[2002] EWCA Civ 239
2002 Feb 13;
March 6
March 6
Lord Woolf CJ, Laws and Dyson LJJ
Local government
— Homeless persons
— Refusal of offer of accommodation
— Local authority officer reviewing offer and concluding that accommodation suitable
— Homeless person appealing to county court
— Whether statutory scheme for review and appeal compatible with homeless person's right to fair determination of civil rights
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Housing Act 1996 (c 52), ss. 202, 204
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42) Sch. 1, Pt I, art 6(1)
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Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Allocation of Housing and Homelessness Functions) Order 1996 (SI 1996/3205), art 3