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30 October 2008
Issue: 7343 / Categories: Case law , Public , Law digest
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Social security

R (on the application of RJM (FC) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2008] UKHL 63, [2008] All ER (D) 220 (Oct)

(i) Where the Court of Appeal concludes that one of its previous decisions is inconsistent with a subsequent decision of the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Appeal should be free (but not obliged) to depart from that decision.

(ii) The policy of disentitling persons without accommodation from receiving the disability premium to which they would otherwise be entitled in their income support amounts to discrimination under Art 14 but is lawful as it can be justified on policy grounds.
 

Issue: 7343 / Categories: Case law , Public , Law digest
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clarke Willmott—Megan Bradbury

Clarke Willmott—Megan Bradbury

Corporate team welcomes paralegal in Southampton

Howard Kennedy—Paul Moran

Howard Kennedy—Paul Moran

London firm strengthens real estate team with partner appointment

Cripps—Radius Law

Cripps—Radius Law

Commercial and technology practice boosted by team hire

NEWS
Pathfinder courts—renamed ‘Child focused courts’—are to be rolled out nationally, following a successful pilot where backlogs halved and cases were resolved up to seven and a half months faster
The Court of Appeal has unanimously dismissed a £385,000 costs order against a father, in a case that centred on what is required to meet the threshold of ‘reprehensible or unreasonable’ behaviour
Centuries-old burial laws would be overhauled, under Law Commission proposals to address the burgeoning problem of shortage of cemetery space
The government has committed an extra £32m to women’s charities and services tackling addiction, trauma, abuse and homelessness
The Financial Ombudsman is poised for major reform to return it to a simple, impartial dispute resolution service
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