The WLR Daily case summaries
[2024] WLR(D) 157
King’s Bench Division
Rex (AK) v Westminster City Council
[2024] EWHC 769 (Admin)
2024 March 13; April 5
Simon Tinker sitting as a deputy High Court judge
Housing— Housing allocation policy— Local authority’s allocation criteria— Local authority housing policy treating transfer applications by existing tenants more favourably than reciprocal transfer applications by people outside the borough— Authority refusing to grant reciprocal transfer claimant seeking to move to different borough following abuse of child by neighbour— Whether policy indirectly discriminatory against women—
Children Act 2004 (c 31), s 11
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Equality Act 2010 (c 15), ss 19, 29, 149