Salisbury Independent Living Ltd v Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council

Subject Matter

HOUSING — Housing benefit — Appeal — Voluntary sector landlord providing vulnerable tenants with accommodation and support services — Local authority fixing housing benefit for tenants — Landlord’s solicitors bringing appeals against housing benefit decisions on behalf of tenants — Landlord seeking to continue appeals in own right — Whether landlord “person affected” by housing benefit decision — Whether having independent right of appeal — Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (as amended by Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008, art 9, Sch 3, para 190(3)), s 68, Sch 7, paras 6(3), 23 — Housing Benefit and Council Tax (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 200, reg 3(1) (as amended by Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006, reg 5, Sch 2, para 17 and Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No 5) Regulations 2007, reg 9(2))

[2012] PTSR 1221

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