The WLR Daily case summaries
[2015] WLR (D) 234
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 that applicant intentionally homeless— — Applicant having given birth to child by time of authority’s refusal— — Single occupancy requirement at hostel such that applicant would have been homeless in any event at date of authority’s decision— — Whether breaking causal connection between deliberate act in leaving available accommodation and homelessness at date of authority’s decision— — Housing Act 1996, ss 191(1), 193(1)