Today's video story: DA Filipino sex worker who met former British banker Rurik Jutting just months before he killed two women in Hong Kong says she feels lucky it wasn't her.
Focus of the day story: The so-called ‘bedroom tax’ introduced by the government as part of a wide-ranging series of benefit cuts in 2013 was unlawful, the Supreme Court has ruled, upholding two claims that the rule breached the applicants’ right to be protected against disability discrimination. The seven justices considered seven applications challenging the decision to remove the ‘spare room subsidy’ that was introduced through regulation B13 – an amendment to the Housing Benefits Regulations 2006. Full story: Solicitors Journal
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