The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[2010] 2 AC 39
Supreme Court
Ali v Birmingham City Council (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government intervening)
Ibrahim v Same (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government intervening)
[2010] UKSC 8
2009 Nov 23,
24;
2010 Feb 17
2010 Feb 17
Lord Hope of Craighead DPSC, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Collins of Mapesbury, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore JJSC
Local government— Homeless person— Refusal of offer of accommodation— Applicants asserting letter explaining consequences of refusal never received— Local housing authority officer reviewing cases and concluding authority’s duty to applicants discharged— Applicants alleging review procedures not compatible with their rights to fair determination of civil rights— Whether local authority’s statutory duty to homeless persons giving rise to “civil rights”—
Housing Act 1996 (c 52) (as amended by Homelessness Act 2002 (c 7), ss 6(1), 7(1)(2), 8(1)(2), 18, Sch 1, para 16, Sch 2 and Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c 17), s 314, Sch 15, Pt 1, para 7(2)), ss 193, 202, 204
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 6(1)