Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2012] All ER (D) 162 (May)
Neutral Citation: [2012] EWCA Civ 669
Court: Court of Appeal, Civil Division
Judge:

Mummery, Moore-Bick and Black LJJ
Representation Jonathan Manning and Stephanie Smith (instructed by Gillian Radford & Co) for the claimant.
  Ian Peacock (instructed by Legal & Democratic Services of Westminster City Council) for the authority.
Judgment Dates: 18 May 2012

Catchwords

Housing - Homeless person - Duty of housing authority to provide accommodation - Defendant local authority offering claimant temporary housing - Claimant refusing accommodation on ground too far to travel - Authority stating 'the possible consequence of refusal' discharging authority's housing duty - Reviewing officer upholding decision authority discharging housing duty - Claimant submitting authority not setting out possible effects of refusing offer and failing to notify of right to make further representations - Judge finding decision of authority not unreasonable - Whether judge erring - Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Review Procedures) Regulations 1999, , .

The Case

Housing Homeless person. The Court of appeal, Civil Division, upheld a determination that the defendant local authority had not erred in its decision that, by offering suitable temporary accommodation to the claimant, it had discharged its housing duty under the and that it had not been necessary for the authority to have set out in detail a series of predictions of future events causally linked to the discharge of that duty.

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