The Weekly Law Reports
[2007] 3 WLR 112
House of Lords
YL v Birmingham City Council and others (Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs intervening)
[2007] UKHL 27
2007 April 30,
May 1, 2;
June 20
May 1, 2;
June 20
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Scott of Foscote, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Mance and Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury
Human rights
— Public authority
— Functions of public nature
— Local authority under duty to arrange accommodation for claimant
— Local authority placing claimant in private care home
— Private care home giving claimant notice to leave
— Declaration sought by claimant that removal from home contrary to Convention rights
— Whether private care home exercising “functions of public nature” in providing care and accommodation
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National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo 6, c 29) (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 Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Act 1992 (c 49), s. 1(1)), ss. 21, 26
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s. 6(1)(3)(b)