PSL Essential Update – Overview of April

April has been a busy month with some important developments to legislation court decisions and new guidance issued.  Here are just some of the highlights of this jam-packed month.

Supreme Court Decisions

Re N

The Supreme Court upheld  the appeal in Re N (Children) [2016] UKSC 15 holding that the question of whether care proceedings should be transferred under Brussels IIa Art 15 to another jurisdiction with which the child was connected should be based on whether the transfer was in the child’s best interests.  That question was different to the question of what eventual outcome would be in the child’s best interests.

LASPO 2012: residence test outside the powers of Lord Chancellor

The Supreme Court took  the unusual perhaps unique step of announcing halfway through a hearing on 18 April that it would allow the appeal by the Public Law Project on the lawfulness of the Lord Chancellor’s proposed residence test for legal aid applications.  Detailed reasons for the decision are  awaited.

Changes to Legislation

Wales

The Social  Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 was fully implemented on 6 April this year.  Amongst the important  changes to...

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