Accommodation for Sick Asylum Seeker

 Housing - Duty to Provide to Sick Asylum Seeker
at Risk of Destitution
R (M) v Slough Borough Council [2006] EWCA Civ 655
CA
25 May 2006
Daily Law Notes Report Summary
The effect of s 21 of the National Assistance Act 1948  was to
make a local authority responsible for providing accommodation to
an asylum-seeker who was in ill health and at risk of becoming
destitute. S 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 did not
operate to impose the responsibility on the Home Office.