Index card R (Ingold) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

R (Ingold) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Hearings

England & Wales

15 Dec 2023 [2023] EWHC 3207 (Admin); [2024] 4 WLR 14; [2024] 2 FLR 437; [2023] WLR(D) 530, KBD (Calver J)

Subject Matter

CHILDREN — Child support maintenance — Enforcement — Mothers complaining of persistent failure of state to collect child support maintenance payments from non-resident fathers where non-payment amounting to domestic economic abuse — Whether state having positive duty to protect victims of domestic economic abuse through child support maintenance system — Whether policy guidance issued by Secretary of State providing misleading picture of true legal position — Whether leading to breach of Convention rights in legally significant number of cases — Child Support Act 1991 (c 48), s 4(2)(2A) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8

[2023] EWHC 3207 (Admin); [2024] 4 WLR 14; [2024] 2 FLR 437; [2023] WLR(D) 530, KBD

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