Application for permission to appeal which, on the face of it, is concerned solely with the incidence of costs. It does, however, raise quite clearly an important point of principle.
A family of asylum seekers who had a legal entitlement to some form of accommodation under the 1999 Act, albeit they had made a false start under the Housing Act, had to proceed by a succession of judicial review applications against the responsibility local authority, the London Borough of Southwark. If there was an issue about the legal responsibility of Southwark, it has either been conceded or gone against them because the case rapidly turned simply into a question, not of whether Southwark was responsible but of whether and when and how it was going to fulfil its responsibility.
Citations:
[2001] EWCA Civ 1829
Links:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Immigration, Costs
Updated: 14 October 2022; Ref: scu.218534
