Sam Ryan

Sam Ryan

Sam is a Housing and Public Law Paralegal within the Housing and Social Care team. Originally from Manchester, Sam moved...

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Edward Taylor

Osbornes Law Secures Mental Health Support for Asylum...

Home office backs down over decision to deny mental health support to suicidal torture victim seeking asylum The Home Office...

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Samuel O’Flaherty

Disabled Woman Wins £34,000 Benefits Case

The Background to the Case In 2019 Ramona Cerbu was crossing the road when she was hit by a car and...

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Isabel Tucker

Isabel Tucker

Isabel joined Osbornes Law in September 2024 and she is a Trainee Solicitor in the Housing and Social care department. Isabel...

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When can you challenge public body decisions about...

An introduction to public law Public law governs the relationship between public bodies, such as central government or local government,...

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asylum seeker
Rahul Kanani

Short-Form Assessments of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children

Age is just a number? Shining a light on Local Authorities’ Short-Form Assessments of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children A recent report...

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Alex McMahon

Case Reiterates Local Authorities should follow Allocation Scheme

R (on the application of Kukhtyak) -v- London Borough of Hounslow [2023] EWHC 2914 (Admin) This sad case concerned an elderly couple...

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Tom McHale

Supreme Court sets High Threshold for Local Authorities...

Judgment was handed down on 28 November 2023 by the Supreme Court in an important case regarding the main housing duty. The...

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Mandy Groves

Mandy is a solicitor in the Housing and Social Care department. After having received her training from and qualifying at...

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Muna Adam

Gatekept homeless teenager accommodated by local housing authority

Miss X, a 17 year old whose details are anonymised to protect her privacy, left her family home in March 2022 following...

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