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Francis Hoar is acting for a businessman who is seeking judicial review of the government’s travel quarantine laws.

Somewhat unusually, there was a dispute on the facts about the man's discharge from hospital previously, with the hospital blaming social services for an error and vice versa. After hearing the evidence, the coroner took the view that the version of the local authority’s social worker was correct.

The claimant argued that the local authority had a freestanding power to provide healthcare under s. 1 of the Localism Act 2011. The local authority argued it was able to provide healthcare under s. 75 of the NHS Act 2006 in partnership with the NHS and could not exercise the general power in s. 1 of the 2011 Act to circumvent the existing statutory scheme.

Genevieve Screeche-Powell acted for the successful local authority in the High Court, Media and Communication List, in a breach of confidentiality/misuse of private information claim.

The ban on hearings to determine evictions of social and privately rented residential accommodation is to last until the end of August.

Joshua Swirsky will speak about Covid-19's impact on supported housing, care homes and sheltered housing at a free Social Housing Law Association webinar on Thursday 11 June.

Francis Hoar is instructed in the legal challenge against the UK Government’s Covid-19 ‘lockdown’ regulations (the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (England) Regulations). Judicial review proceedings were issued today.

Sarah McKeown and Mark Baumohl have been appointed as Deputy District Judges on the South Eastern circuit.

Jonathan Pennington Legh will be one of the presenters in the Social Housing Law Association's disrepair webinar on Thursday 21 May.

Joshua Swirsky acted for the successful local authority  in R(Idolo) v LB Bromley [2020] EWHC 860 (Admin).