CPAG to appeal to Supreme Court against today’s Court of Appeal judgment on two-child limit

CPAG has confirmed that the Court of Appeal has ruled against their challenge to the two-child limit and that they will be appealing to the Supreme Court.

Here’s their statement -

http://www.cpag.org.uk/content/lone-parents-aim-supreme-court-ongoing-legal-challenge-against-‘two-child-limit’-tax-credits

The judgment is out on BAILII now -

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2019/615.html

and here’s the rightsnet summary -

https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/welfare-rights/caselaw/item/Court-of-Appeal-holds-that-two-child-limit-is-not-incompatible-with-rights

Permission to appeal to Supreme Court has been granted in two-child limit case - a tweet from Tom Royston confirms that the Supreme Court has this week granted the claimants in SC & Ors permission to appeal- with a hearing probably some time next year.

NB - also now confirmed on the Supreme Court’s October to November permission to appeal results (page 2).

Hearing set for 20 to 22 October 2020 - (Lord Kerr refers to hearing date in today’s judgment (para 12) on NI devolution issues and UC rollout).

Judgement on this due to be handed-down next Friday.

Appeal dismissed ...

Judgment: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2019-0135-judgment.pdf