The Weekly Law Reports
[2024] 4 WLR 14
King’s Bench Division
Rex (Ingold) and others v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2023] EWHC 3207 (Admin)
2023 Oct 3, 4; Dec 15
Calver J
Children— Child support maintenance— Enforcement— Mothers complaining of persistent failure of state to collect child support maintenance payments from non-resident fathers where non-payment amounting to domestic economic abuse— Whether state having positive duty to protect victims of domestic economic abuse through child support maintenance system— Whether policy guidance issued by Secretary of State providing misleading picture of true legal position— Whether leading to breach of Convention rights in legally significant number of cases—
Child Support Act 1991 (c 48), s 4(2)(2A)
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8