High Court - Welfare rights case law

21 June, 2022

High Court rules that government’s ‘no recourse to public funds’ policy continues to fail to comply with legal obligation to safeguard and promote the welfare of children

[2022] EWHC 1524 (Admin)
AB & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department

16 May, 2022

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

[2022] NIQB 29
RK, Re Application for Judicial Review

18 February, 2022 Open access

High Court dismisses judicial review challenge to decision not to extend Covid-19-related universal credit uplift to legacy benefits

[2022] EWHC 351 (Admin)
T & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Work And Pensions

28 January, 2022

High Court dismisses judicial review challenge to universal credit disabled student rules

[2022] EWHC 167 (Admin)
Kays, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

26 January, 2022

High Court rules that DWP’s National Disability Strategy is unlawful as consultation process failed to provide for ‘intelligent consideration and response’

[2022] EWHC 105 (Admin)
Binder & Ors v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

21 January, 2022

High Court rules that failure to compensate claimants who migrated to universal credit for loss of enhanced disability premium and child tax credit disabled child element is unlawful

[2022] EWHC 123 (Admin)
R (on the application of) TP and AR (TP and AR No.3)

5 July, 2021

High Court rules that provision for refugees to make a backdated child tax credit claim from the date they sought asylum continues to apply where that date was before introduction of full service universal credit

[2021] EWHC 1845 (Admin)

30 April, 2021

High Court rules that government’s ‘no recourse to public funds’ policy unlawfully fails to safeguard and promote the welfare of children

[2021] EWHC 1085 (Admin)

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)

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)

Welfare rights (High Court)

[2022] EWHC 1524 (Admin) AB & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department

[2021] EWHC 1845 (Admin)

Welfare rights
(High Court)

[2022] EWHC 1524 (Admin)
AB & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department