12th May 2022
Location

Online Seminar via Zoom

Online Seminar via Zoom

Landmark judgment on the main homeless duty: R (Elkundi) v Birmingham and R (Imam) v Croydon

Thursday 12th May 2022 | 17:30-18:30

The Housing and Social Welfare Team will be holding a webinar on the 12th May to discuss the cases of R (Elkundi) v Birmingham and R (Imam) v Croydon, a landmark judgment on the main homeless duty, handed down on 4th May 2022. Counsel instructed will be speaking and will discuss what the court decided and what lessons we can learn for future cases.

Zia Nabi (for Mr Elkundi and others, together with Joseph Markus at GNC) instructed by Mike McIlvaney at The Community Law Partnership and Martin Westgate QC and Sarah Steinhardt (for Ms Imam) instructed by Polly Glynn at Deighton Pierce Glynn successfully acted in these appeals, judgment on which was handed down today, 4 May 2022.

Read more about this case here.


There will be live auto-transcription enabled throughout this event and it will be recorded. All guests will have their cameras and microphones turned off automatically for this event. Exclusionary language will not be accepted.

The audio transcript will be made available on request.

Unfortunately, we will be unable to provide a BSL interpreter for this event.

Please let us know if you would like to engage in a confidential conversation regarding this or if you have any other accessibility requirements at: events@doughtystreet.co.uk.


The slides are available here.