The Weekly Law Reports
[2008] 1 WLR 1289
Court of Appeal
*Holmes-Moorhouse
v
Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council
[2007] EWCA Civ 970
2007 July 11;
Oct 10
Oct 10
Auld, Rix and Moses LJJ
Local government— Homeless persons— Priority need— Family court making uncontested shared residence order by consent in respect of three children— Local authority rejecting homeless father’s application for accommodation as homeless person in priority need— Whether family court order determinative of whether children “might reasonably be expected to reside” with father— Whether local housing authority obliged to evaluate reasonableness of expectation— Whether scarcity of housing resources relevant to evaluation of reasonableness — Whether children “residing” or merely staying with father— Whether reasonable to expect that children would live with father—
Children Act 1989 (c 41), ss 1(3)(f)(4), 8
—
Housing Act 1996 (c 52), s 189(1)(b)
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