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Genevieve Screeche-Powell led by Kelvin Rutledge KC acted for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to successfully resist an appeal about the local authority’s use of a database of homeless applicants awaiting transfer to alternative temporary accommodation. The appellant, Ms Begum had claimed that the system of allocating temporary accommodation indirectly discriminated against women.

In R(Begum) v London Borough of Tower Hamlets (Shelter Intervening) [2024] EWCA 2279 (Admin), a homelessness judicial review claim, Genevieve Screeche-Powell acted for the successful local authority in resisting a claim of indirect sex discrimination.

Joshua Swirsky defended the successful local authority in the Court of Appeal case of R (Campbell) v LB Ealing. Judgment handed down today focuses on how a local authority’s obligations under the Care Act 2014 interact with its obligations under Parts VI and VII of the Housing Act 1996 - in particular, how s.23 of the Care Act should be properly interpreted.

Clare Cullen represented the successful defendant local authority in a judicial review challenging its housing allocation scheme which included a provision excluding applicants with a history of serious anti-social behaviour.