The WLR Daily case summaries
[2023] WLR(D) 348
Court of Appeal
Rex (SB) v Kensington and Chelsea Royal London Borough Council
[2023] EWCA Civ 924
Elisabeth Laing, Falk LJJ, Sir Launcelot Henderson
2023 June 15;
July 31
July 31
Children— Children in need— Age assessment— Claimant claiming to be unaccompanied 17 year old child asylum seeker— Local authority assessing claimant as adult based on interview and physical appearance and demeanour— Claimant seeking judicial review on grounds of failure to provide interpreter, appropriate adult, or opportunity to address council’s adverse “minded to” reasons— Whether appropriate for Administrative Court to hive off procedural challenges from substantive challenge to age assessments, and decide procedural challenge in isolation from substantive challenge