References: Times 29-Jul-1980
Coram: Woolf J
The applicant had made more than one application for emergency housing and temporary accomodation pending the result of her application.
Held: It could not have been the intention of Parliament that a similar statute should be used by someone, who is not entitled to permanent accommodation to obtain the continuous use of temporary accommodation by means of successive applications.
This case is cited by:
- Cited – Griffin, Regina (on the Application of) -v- London Borough of Southwark Admn (Bailii, [2004] EWHC 2463 (Admin), Times 03-Jan-05)
The applicant had sought emergency housing with her husband, but refused accomodation on a particuar estate for her safety. She had then been evicted form the temporary housing supplied on the application. After a series of temporary arrangements . . - Cited – Regina -v- Harrow London Borough Council Ex Parte Fahia HL (Times 24-Jul-98, Gazette 16-Sep-98, House of Lords, Bailii, [1998] UKHL 29, [1998] 1 WLR 1396)
The local authority submitted first that a person making a second application for emergency housing had to demonstrate a change of circumstance which might lead to a second application being successful and second that it was for the local authority . .
