R v Hammersmith and Fulham LBC, ex parte M

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1998
Year1998
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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30 cases
  • R (on the application of SL) v Westminster City Council
    • United Kingdom
    • 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......
  • 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
    ...for 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......
  • R Adalberto Jesus De Almeida v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 27 April 2012
    ...definitely not what Parliament intended in 1977. This view is consistent with R v Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council, Ex p M. 30 HLR 10, in which Lord Woolf MR emphasised, at p 20, that asylum seekers were not entitled merely because they lacked money or accommodation. I remain o......
  • R (M) v Slough Borough Council
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 30 July 2008
    ...and housing denied to them, asylum seekers turned to section 21(1)(a) of the National Assistance Act 1948. In R v Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council, Ex parte M (1997) 30 HLR 10 ("Ex parte M"), the Court of Appeal held that they could do so. The Court rejected the argument that ......
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2 books & journal articles
  • 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......

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