Legal challenge to welfare reforms

Civitas, 19 March 2013

With all the media focus on the Leveson-inspired Royal Charter for press regulation, the upcoming budget and the Cyprus levy, a controversial piece of emergency legislation will be debated today. That legislation is the Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill (Amendments, etc.) (Motion).

An impartial discussion of the issues can be found in the House of Commons Library Briefing.

The complex legal ruling in the Court of Appeal can be found here.