High Court - Welfare rights case law

22 May, 2020

High Court rules that government’s ‘no recourse to public funds’ regime is unlawful in cases where applicant will imminently suffer inhuman or degrading treatment without recourse

[2020] EWHC 1299 (Admin)

27 April, 2020

High Court rules that precluding pre-settled status from conferring a right to reside is not unlawful discrimination

[2020] EWHC 998 (Admin)

7 February, 2020

High Court rules that bereavement support payment eligibility criteria that exclude cohabiting parents from entitlement are incompatible with human rights law

[2020] EWHC 183 (Admin)

24 October, 2019

High Court considers compensation following ruling that transitional provisions for benefit claimants with an SDP who had transferred to universal credit were unlawful

[2019] EWHC 2774 (Admin)

3 October, 2019

High Court rules that mechanism used to increase women’s state pension age, in combination with a failure to properly inform women of the changes, was not unlawful

[2019] EWHC 2552 (Admin)

23 September, 2019

High Court rules that universal credit minimum income floor is not unlawful

[2019] EWHC 2356 (Admin)

3 May, 2019

High Court rules that universal credit migration arrangements for those who received severe disability premium before 16 January 2019 are unlawful

[2019] EWHC 1116 (Admin)

13 March, 2019

Failure of UK authorities to provide an EU jobseeker access to housing benefit not in breach of ECHR

[2018] NIQB 93

1 March, 2019

High Court rules that failure to provide transitional protection for claimants who transferred to universal credit following incorrect legacy benefit decision was not unlawful

[2019] EWHC 462 (Admin)

28 February, 2019

DWP's 'workaround' to provide email communications to disabled claimant was sufficient to meet its duties under the Equality Act 2010

[2019] EWHC 395 (Admin)

14 February, 2019

Judicial review is not an appropriate remedy in a case where statutory appeal is available to challenge refusal to make provisional CTC payments

[2019] EWHC 251 (Admin)

11 January, 2019

High Court rules that DWP’s method of assessing earned income under universal credit is unlawful

[2019] EWHC 23 (Admin)

17 August, 2018

High Court rules that cap on support under Access to Work scheme is not unlawful

[2018] EWHC 2196 (Admin)

14 June, 2018

High Court rules that government’s failure to protect benefit rates for severely disabled people migrating to universal credit is unlawful

[2018] EWHC 1474 (Admin)

20 April, 2018

High Court rules that the two child limit is compatible with the ECHR, but allows claim in relation to the lawfulness of the kinship care exception

[2018] EWHC 864 (Admin)

21 December, 2017

High Court rules that amendments to PIP mobility activity 1 are unlawful

[2017] EWHC 3375 (Admin)

11 September, 2017

High Court rules, in council tax reduction case, that onus of proof remains with claimant if council has made reasonable requests for information

[2017] EWHC 2252 (Admin)

22 June, 2017

High Court rules that application of benefit cap to lone parents with children under two is unlawful

[2017] EWHC 1446

9 May, 2017

Failure of a local authority to consider a long term award of discretionary housing payment

[2017] EWHC 802 (Admin)

Welfare rights (High Court)

[2020] EWHC 1299 (Admin)

[2019] EWHC 1116 (Admin)