The court as asked: ‘i) If a local housing authority purports to discharge its duty to a homeless person such as to terminate that duty, and the homeless person does not appeal against an unsuccessful review of that decision; is he entitled to challenge the lawfulness of that review decision on a subsequent application for assistance as a homeless person?
ii) If so, was the housing authority entitled to terminate its duty in the manner in which it purported to do?
iii) If the termination of the housing duty and the homeless person’s consequent eviction was caused by the homeless person’s refusal of an offer of temporary accommodation, is he thereby rendered intentionally homeless?’
Citations:
[2019] EWCA Civ 486
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Housing
Updated: 30 May 2022; Ref: scu.634817