Challenge to two child limit for child tax credit.
Judges:
Patten, Leggatt, Nicola Davies LJJ
Citations:
[2019] EWCA Civ 615, [2019] 4 All ER 787, [2019] 1 WLR 5687, [2019] WLR(D) 233
Links:
Statutes:
Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Appeal from – SC, CB and 8 Children, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Others SC 9-Jul-2021
The Supreme Court was asked to decide whether the ‘two child limit’, a provision of primary legislation which restricts payment of amounts of subsistence benefit for children to the first two children in a family, is incompatible with the . .
Cited – Northern Ireland Devolution Issues, A Reference By The Attorney General (Northern Ireland) SC 5-Feb-2020
Devolution issue arises as to Act of NI Minister
The basis for the Attorney’s reference is his assertion that the universal credit provisions in question breach articles 8, 12 and 14 of the ECHR and article 1 of the first protocol to the ECHR and are therefore invalid per section 24 of the 1998 . .
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Benefits
Updated: 05 June 2022; Ref: scu.635958