Universal credit ordering provisions are lawful

Mrs Justice Collins Rice has dismissed a challenge to the ordering provisions that apply an exception to the two-child limit in universal credit in cases of non-consensual conception only when the non-consensually conceived child is the third or subsequent child in a family. The claimants had argued that the provisions breached their rights under Articles 3, 8 and 14 ECHR and were irrational.

Galina Ward KC acted for the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, leading Yaaser Vanderman of Brick Court Chambers.

The judgment is available here.