The Weekly Law Reports
[2015] 2 WLR 1441
Supreme Court
Haile
v
Waltham Forest London Borough Council
[2015] UKSC 34
2015 Jan 29;
May 20
Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury PSC, Baroness Hale of Richmond DPSC, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, Lord Reed, Lord Carnwath JJSC
Local government— Homeless persons— Whether “homeless intentionally”— Applicant voluntarily leaving single occupancy hostel accommodation but subsequently applying to local housing authority as homeless person with priority need due to pregnancy— Authority refusing to provide accommodation on ground applicant intentionally homeless— Applicant having given birth to child by time of authority’s refusal— Single occupancy requirement at hostel such as would have made applicant homeless in any event at date of authority’s decision— Whether break in causal connection between deliberate act in leaving available accommodation and homelessness at date of authority’s decision—
Housing Act 1996 (c 52), ss 191(1), 193(1)