Supreme Court hears DWP appeal against work scheme ruling
29 July 2013
The Supreme Court of England and Wales was today considering an appeal from the Department for Work and Pensions against an appeal court ruling earlier this year which declared unlawful a government scheme placing claimants of jobseekers allowance into unpaid work placements.
Mon, 29 Jul 2013The Supreme Court of England and Wales was today considering an appeal from the Department for Work and Pensions against an appeal court ruling earlier this year which declared unlawful a government scheme placing claimants of jobseekers allowance into unpaid work placements.
The decision, handed down in March in the Court of Appeal, came after a high court decision last August that the schemes did not constitute slave labour.
A solicitor at the firm Public Interest Lawyers, Tessa Gregory, says the result of today’s hearing “will in the main be academic because the Government has already retrospectively changed the law to overturn the Court of Appeal’s [March] judgment”.
Public Interest Lawyers brought the original claim on behalf of two clients, themselves jobseekers.
One day is scheduled for the hearing.
The decision, handed down in March in the Court of Appeal, came after a high court decision last August that the schemes did not constitute slave labour.
A solicitor at the firm Public Interest Lawyers, Tessa Gregory, says the result of today’s hearing “will in the main be academic because the Government has already retrospectively changed the law to overturn the Court of Appeal’s [March] judgment”.
Public Interest Lawyers brought the original claim on behalf of two clients, themselves jobseekers.
One day is scheduled for the hearing.
