The Weekly Law Reports
[2018] 1 WLR 5425
Queen’s Bench Division
*C and others v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and others (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening)
[2018] EWHC 864 (Admin)
2018 Feb 6,
7;
April 20
April 20
Ouseley J
Human rights— Respect for private and family life— Discrimination— Families unable to make new claims for child tax credit for third and subsequent children as result of legislative amendments— Whether two-child limit breaching families’ Convention rights— Whether discriminating against families with three or more children in enjoyment of Convention rights— Whether exception for third or subsequent cared for children perverse—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 8, 9, 12, 14, Pt II, art 1
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Tax Credits Act 2002 (c 21), s 9 (as amended by Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 (c 7), s 13)
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Child Tax Credit Regulations 2002 (SI 2002/2007) (as amended by Child Tax Credit (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (SI 2017/387), regs 4, 5), regs 7(2A), 9, 12
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United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) (Cm 1976)