Facts: a supported living provider, Salisbury Independent Living, funded litigation brought by residents living in accommodation it provided, essentially claiming that due to inadequate assessments, Wirral had not provided the residents with funds that would in turn reimburse SIL for the assistance it provided.

Judgment: McCombe J held that, leaving aside one potentially major point that had been raised at the hearing for the first time and which the claimants would not be permitted to rely on, the criticisms of the assessments were relatively minor and ought to be have been raised in a complaints procedure, in particular because no case had emerged where it was likely that there had been a failure to meet eligible needs; accordingly, he dismissed the application for judicial review as an abuse of process.