The Weekly Law Reports
[2025] 1 WLR 2557
Court of Appeal
*Rex (Bano) v Waltham Forest London Borough Council
[2025] EWCA Civ 92
2025 Jan 22; Feb 7
Peter Jackson, Newey, Warby LJJ
Local government— Homeless persons— Refusal of offer of accommodation— Local housing authority making private rented sector offer to housing applicant— Offer letter not meeting statutory requirements— Applicant refusing offer— Whether authority’s main housing duty ending— Whether necessary for authority to make positive decision that duty at an end— Whether applicant having available remedy other than judicial review—
Housing Act 1996 (c 52), ss 193(2)(7AA)(7AB), 202(1)(b)