Abdikadir v Ealing London Borough Council

Subject Matter

HOUSING — Homeless persons — Review of local housing authority decision — Applicant refusing authority’s out of district offer of accommodation — Local authority review decision confirming duty to applicant had ended — Whether local authority’s failure to notify receiving authority invalidating review decision — Whether local authority failing to secure accommodation within its own district “so far as reasonably practicable” — Housing Act 1996 (c 52), ss 193(2)(5), 206, 208(1)(2)

[2022] EWCA Civ 979; [2022] PTSR 1455; [2022] WLR(D) 311, CA