Facts: Mr Ouji was an asylum-seeker who, with his family, was in receipt of asylum support under Part 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. He sought additional levels of support in order to meet the needs of his disabled daughter.

Judgment: Mr Justice Collins held that Part 6 of the 1999 Act required the Secretary of State for the Home Department to meet ‘essential living needs’ only. Those were the kinds of needs that people in general had in order to have a reasonable minimum standard of existence by UK standards. They were the needs of an ordinary child or adult with no special peculiarities or disabilities. Any such special features were the responsibility of the local social services authority.