The Supreme Court on the Bedroom Tax: Three key issues

The long-awaited Supreme Court decision on the 2010 Coalition Government’s “Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy” – known by everybody else as the “Bedroom Tax” – ...[Continue Reading]
The Supreme Court and Resource Allocation: Revisiting R (Tigere) v Secretary of State for Business, Skills and Innovation [2015] UKSC 57, [2015] 1 WLR 3820

by Byron Karemba* i. Context In 2015, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom allowed an appeal by a prospective undergraduate student, Beaurish Tigere, who had been denied ...[Continue Reading]
Discretionary Housing Payment Expenditure

The interactive charts below display the Discretionary Housing Payment returns data for the financial year 2015/16. The raw data was released by the Department for Work and ...[Continue Reading]
In defence of equality law

In a previous blog post, Mark Simpson argued that equality law is ill-equipped to defend social rights in the UK. A similar conclusion is also reached in the UK case ...[Continue Reading]
Justifying Welfare Policies: Some Brief Thoughts on the Role of Courts

In recent years the courts have been called upon to determine whether controversial welfare policies, including the benefit cap and the so-called ‘bedroom tax, are ...[Continue Reading]

About the Project

Welcome to SocialRights.co.uk

by admin in About the project

We initiated this blog and website as on outcome of a research project, funded by the Italian Department of Education, University and Research (PRIN 2010-11), on the fate of social rights in Europe carried out as a joint effort between the Department of Legal and Social Studies of the University of Chieti-Pescara and the York Law School. ...[Continue Reading]

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