The good, the bad and the ugly.

In a week of depressing, worrying news on homelessness – of which more below – there were at least two bits of good news. First, in Gureckis, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWHC 3298 (Admin) the Government’s policy of deporting rough sleeping EU citizens was found to be unlawful, discriminatory and in breach of EU regulations on right to reside. The Govt’s argument that rough sleeping meant the person was not ‘integrating’ was rejected, both as being not true and as ‘integration’ was not a requirement for the exercise of free movement rights. Second, in a highly unusual (but highly merited) step, the Housing Law Practitioners Association announced an Outstanding Achievement award for John Gallagher, of Shelter. John will hate me saying this, because he is a man of great modesty, but this was extraordinarily well deserved. For many years, John has been a mainstay of housing law…

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