| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2012] All ER (D) 85 (Feb) |
| Neutral Citation: | [2012] EWHC 17 (Admin) |
| Court: | Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (Manchester) |
| Judge: | Ryder J |
| Representation | Ian Wise QC and Stephen Broach (instructed by Irwin Mitchell LLP) for the claimants. |
| John Howell QC and Tom Hickman (instructed by the City Solicitor) for the local authority. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 12 January 2012 |
Catchwords
Discrimination - Disability discrimination - Disability equality duty - Claimants being severely disabled - Defendant local authority making budget cuts effecting adult social care provision - Claimants applying for judicial review of budget decision and consultation process - Whether disability equality duty fulfilled - .
The Case
Discrimination Disability discrimination. The Administrative Court, in dismissing the claimants' application for judicial review of the defendant local authority's decision to reduce its budget for adult social care and the authority's ongoing consultation process, held that the authority had fulfilled its disability equality duty under s49A of the .
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