High Court - Welfare rights case law

13 April, 2021

High Court of Northern Ireland rules that the 13 week housing benefit temporary absence rules that apply to serving prisoners do not breach human rights law

[2020] NIQB 78

18 March, 2021

High Court rules that DWP’s universal credit deductions policy’s use of a rigid formula in respect of court fines, rather than the exercise of discretion as the legislation requires, is unlawful

[2021] EWHC 608 (Admin)

4 March, 2021

High Court dismisses challenge brought by family of deceased claimant against DWP’s safeguarding policies

[2021] EWHC 465 (Admin)

22 January, 2021

High Court rules that requirement for universal credit claimants to pay childcare costs upfront before receiving childcare costs element is unlawful

[2021] EWHC 102 (Admin)

10 November, 2020

Secretary of State acted unlawfully in failing to determine whether disabled students had limited capability for work before deciding their entitlement to universal credit

CO/987/2020

26 October, 2020

High Court rules that treatment of maternity allowance as unearned income for the purposes of universal credit is not unlawful

[2020] EWHC 2827 (Admin)

23 October, 2020 Open access

High Court rejects challenge to decision not to increase financial support for recipients of carer’s allowance in response to coronavirus pandemic

[2020] EWHC 2817 (Admin)

23 September, 2020

High Court rules that formulae for converting weekly rents to a monthly value for the purposes of calculating universal credit entitlement are neither irrational nor unlawful

[2020] EWHC 2482 (Admin)

20 August, 2020 Open access

High Court in Northern Ireland grants interim relief pending full hearing delayed by COVID-19 to prisoner challenging housing benefit temporary absence rules

[2020] NIQB 46

24 July, 2020

High Court rules that mandatory reconsideration requirement as it applies to ESA claimants who meet the conditions for payment while appeal pending is unlawful

[2020] EWHC 1999 (Admin)

23 July, 2020

High Court rules that requirement to repay a ‘Loan for Mortgage Interest’ immediately on the sale of a property is not incompatible with Article 14 of the ECHR

[2020] EWHC 1976 (Admin)

20 July, 2020

High Court rules that universal credit benefit cap earnings assessment is irrational and unlawful in case of a four-weekly paid claimant

[2020] EWHC 1944 (Admin)

8 July, 2020

High Court holds that special rules for terminal illness, in case where claimant cannot demonstrate their death can be reasonably expected within six months, are ‘discriminatory' and 'manifestly without reasonable foundation'

[2020] NIQB 53

16 June, 2020 Open access

High Court rules that government decisions on Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and changes to statutory sick pay were not unlawful in relation to ‘limb b workers’

[2020] EWHC 1554 (Admin)

15 June, 2020

High Court rules that exclusion of mixed-age couples from pension credit is not discriminatory or in breach of the public sector equality duty

[2020] EWHC 1495 (Admin)

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)

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[2020] NIQB 78

[2020] EWHC 2817 (Admin)

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