The Weekly Law Reports
[2007] 2 WLR 1097
Court of Appeal
Regina (Johnson and others) v Havering London Borough Council (Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and another intervening)
[2007] EWCA Civ 26
YL v Birmingham City Council and others (Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs intervening)
[2007] EWCA Civ 27
2007 Jan 11,
12;
30
Sir Anthony Clarke MR, Buxton and Dyson LJJ
Human rights
— Public authority
— Functions of public nature
— Local authority under duty to provide accommodation for claimants
— Local authority arranging for accommodation to be provided by private care home
— Whether private care home exercising functions of public nature in providing accommodation
— Whether transfer of local authority care home to private organisation unlawfully depriving residents of Convention rights
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National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo 6, c 29), ss. 21, 26 (as amended by Local Government Act 1972 (c 70), s. 195(6), Sch. 23, para 2(1), Children Act 1989 (c 41), s. 108(5), Sch. 13, para 11(1), National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c 19), s. 42(1) and as substituted by Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Act 1992 (c 49), s. 1(1))
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s. 6(1)(3)(b)