Allocations and Equality Act

R(Gullu) v LB Hillingdon [2018] EWHC 1937 (Admin) Well now. This was another challenge to LB Hillingdon’s policy of requiring 10 years residence in borough for admission to the housing register. It follows after TW, SW, and EM, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough Of Hillingdon (2018) EWHC 1791 (our note here) which found that Hillingdon’s policy unjustifiably discriminated against Travellers. But with a very different outcome. In the case, the challenge was that the policy discriminated against refugees. The claimant had been given Part VII homeless accommodation by LB Hillingdon once granted refugee status, but not allowed to join the housing register. On the fundamental discrimination claim, Mostyn J held: The claimant is a recent arrival in Hillingdon who is a refugee. He is discriminated against in favour of long-term residents not because he is a refugee but because he is a short-term resident. Nobody is suggesting that discrimination on that basis…

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