Index card R (Aweys) v Birmingham City Council

Hearings

England & Wales

26 Jan 2007 [2007] EWHC 52 (Admin); [2007] 1 FLR 2066; [2007] HLR 394, QBD (Collins J)

07 Feb 2008 [2008] EWCA Civ 48; [2008] 1 WLR 2305; [2008] 1 FLR 1025, CA

01 Jul 2009 [2009] UKHL 36; [2009] 1 WLR 1506; [2009] PTSR 1270; [2009] 4 All ER 161; [2009] LGR 749; [2009] WLR (D) 221, HL(E)

Additional names

Birmingham City Council v Ali

R (Abdulle) v Birmingham City Council

R (Adam) v Birmingham City Council

R (Omar) v Birmingham City Council

R (Sharif) v Birmingham City Council

Subject Matter

LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Homeless persons — Accommodation available for occupation — Local housing authority finding claimants' accommodation not reasonable for them to continue to occupy — Authority accepting claimants to be homeless and owed duty to secure accommodation available for them — Authority leaving claimants in accommodation until better accommodation becoming available — Whether authority discharging duty to secure “accommodation” — Allocation policy giving priority to street homeless over homeless with accommodation not reasonable for them to continue to occupy — Whether lawful — Woman occupying women's refuge evicted for misconduct — Woman applying to local housing authority to be accommodated as homeless — Whether intentionally homeless — Whether refuge “accommodation” — Whether “accommodation which it would be reasonable … to continue to occupy” — Whether authority owing housing duty — Housing Act 1996, ss 175(1)(3), 191(1), 193(2)

[2008] EWCA Civ 48; [2008] 1 WLR 2305; [2008] 1 FLR 1025, CA

[2009] UKHL 36; [2009] 1 WLR 1506; [2009] PTSR 1270; [2009] 4 All ER 161; [2009] LGR 749; [2009] WLR (D) 221, HL(E)

Appellate History

R (Aweys) v Birmingham City Council [2007] EWHC 52 (Admin); [2007] 1 FLR 2066; [2007] HLR 394, QBD

Decision of Collins J affirmed

R (Aweys) v Birmingham City Council [2008] EWCA Civ 48; [2008] 1 WLR 2305; [2008] 1 FLR 1025, CA

Decision of the Court of Appeal reversed in part

R (Aweys) v Birmingham City Council [2009] UKHL 36; [2009] 1 WLR 1506; [2009] PTSR 1270; [2009] 4 All ER 161; [2009] LGR 749; [2009] WLR (D) 221, HL(E)

Moran v Manchester City Council (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government intervening) [2008] EWCA Civ 378; [2008] 1 WLR 2387; [2008] 4 All ER 304; [2008] LGR 849, CA

Decision of the Court of Appeal reversed.