Current cases
At any one time we will have several cases in development, going through the courts, or just decided or settled. To give an idea of the issues we are currently litigating, there is a summary of some the cases we are dealing with at the moment below.
Transcripts of interesting case judgments are available for free from the British and Irish Legal Information Institute website.
Summary of current cases
To give a flavour of the kind of work we do, these are some issues that we have been advising on recently:
- Inadequacies in the consultation process regarding proposed increases in home care charges.
- The reasonableness of a CPS decision not to prosecute anyone for manslaughter in relation to a death in hospital.
- A council’s determination of applications for discretionary housing payments.
- A social security Commissioner’s refusal of leave to appeal in a Social Fund funeral payment case.
- Funding cuts by a government department to a national organisation.
- Funding decisions affecting an organisation that provides advice and advocacy for people using social services in Oxfordshire.
- Whether a DWP policy of insisting on a single appointee for dealing with benefits for someone else was lawful.
- Former asylum-seekers' liability to pay council tax from the years when they were destitute, could not work or claim benefits and were waiting for their asylum applications to be dealt with.
- Failure to allocate a national insurance number.
- Delays in dealing with benefits appeals.
- A case in the European Court of Human Rights challenging the Child Support Act provision which means a parent with care cannot take the non-resident parent to court themselves if they are behind on the maintenance payments.
- NHS PCT exceptional funding appeals.
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