Bankruptcy
Cooper and others v Dashi (aka Rugova) and other companies [2024] EWHC 2102 (Ch), [2024] All ER (D) 56 (Aug)
The Chancery Division made rulings on applications made by the joint trustees in bankruptcy of EW. Among other things, the respondents would not be required to make further disclosure of documents. The court held that it would not make an order for the examination of the first respondent (D), who had made two witness statements. No evidence had been produced that would allow it to hold that the statements of D were untrue.
Housing
R (on application of RR) v London Borough of Enfield [2024] EWHC 2501 (Admin), [2024] All ER (D) 09 (Oct)
The Administrative Court dismissed the claimant’s judicial review claim of the defendant local authority’s allocation scheme of social housing (the scheme) in circumstances where the claimant who acted as a full-time carer for his wife and two young children had been allocated a small one-bedroomed flat as temporary accommodation under a points system for housing priority. The claimant submitted that the authority was acting unlawfully as
