R v Hammersmith and Fulham LBC, ex parte M

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1998
Year1998
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)

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    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 October 2011
    ...of that subsection, and indeed may be said to have prompted it. In R v City of Westminster and others ex p M, P, A and X [ Ex p. M (1998) 30 HLR 10] the claimants were destitute asylum seekers. They were not in need of care and attention, but because they were destitute, without accommodati......
  • R (W and Others) v Croydon London Borough Council and another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 4 April 2007
    ... ... out, and also to the decision of this court in Wahid v Tower Hamlets LBC [2002] EWCA Civ 287 ... In that case Hale LJ as she then was stated ... ...
  • MK and Another v The Secretary of State for the Home Department Refugee Action (Intervener)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 10 July 2012
    ...the purposes of that provision. That argument was accepted by the Court of Appeal in R v Hammersmith & Fulham ex parte M and others (1997) 30 HLR 10 which held that all destitute asylum seekers, able-bodied as well as disabled, who were deprived of other support, were potentially entitl......
  • The Queen (on the application of Timon Ncube) v Brighton and Hove City Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 11 March 2021
    ...was given a wide meaning and was not limited “age, illness, disability” in the case of R. v. Hammersmith & Fulham L.B.C., ex p. M (1997) 30 H.L.R. 10, CA. In R (Westminster City Council) v National Asylum Support Service above at para. 41, Lord Hoffmann said the following: “…The clear p......
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  • The Exclusion of (Failed) Asylum Seekers from Housing and Home: Towards an Oppositional Discourse
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley Journal of Law and Society No. 37-2, June 2010
    • 1 June 2010
    ...One of the quirks of the NASS system is that if the asylumseeker was eligible for local authority support under the NAA 1948, then305116 (1997) 30 HLR 10.117 Home Office, op. cit., n. 69.118 Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, s. 117(5), which repealed s. 186 of the HousingAct 1996.119 The cri......
  • Human Rights: Where Do We Go from Here?
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 69-5, September 2006
    • 1 September 2006
    ...163 U S 537 (189 6).16 181.17 See, eg, R.v SoS for Social Services, ex p JCWI [1996] 4 All ER 385, RvHammersmith and FulhamLBC,ex p M (1998) 30 HLR10; R.vWandsworthLBC,ex p O [2000] 4 All ER590, all drawing uponR (EastbourneInhabitants) (1803) 4 East103,102 ER 769, 770.This i s not the plac......