R (AK) v Westminster City Council

Subject Matter

HOUSING — Housing allocation policy — Reciprocal transfer application — Claimant seeking to move to neighbouring borough following abuse of her child by neighbour — Neighbouring local housing authority refusing claimant’s application for reciprocal transfer — Authority’s housing policy treating reciprocal transfer applications by tenants within borough more favourably than such applications by people outside borough — Whether policy indirectly discriminating against women — Whether authority breaching public sector equality duty — Whether authority failing to have regard to need to safeguard and promote interests of children — Children Act 2004 (c 31), s 11 — Equality Act 2010 (c 15), ss 19, 29, 149

[2024] EWHC 769 (Admin); [2024] PTSR 940; [2024] WLR(D) 157, KBD