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Lawyers representing people with disabilities have won the right to challenge the government's draconian bedroom tax in the Court of Appeal.
Appeal court judge Lord Justice Aikens ruled that 10 test cases should be heard as they raise issues of public importance and that the points raised in the grounds of appeal and the proposed skeleton argument had "a reasonable prospect of success."
The bedroom tax sparked outrage when it came into force on April 1, with campaigners and advice organisations warning that it would hit the most vulnerable hardest.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
