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Kelvin Rutledge KC
Position
Public law; local government; housing; community care.
Career
Local Government specialist with expertise in a wide range of areas including social housing, adult community care services, children’s services, governance, powers and duties of local authorities, land acquisition/disposal, finance, elections and some planning.
Kelvin appears mostly in judicial review/appeal cases but also inquests. Has related expertise in human rights, discrimination and EU law. Is also a highly experienced and knowledgeable property lawyer. Has appeared in some of the most significant community care and housing cases in the last decade.
He has extensive advocacy experience including UK Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice.
Notable cases include: Slough v M (residential care, definition of care and attention); McDonald v RB Kensington and Chelsea (care assessments, resources, human rights and equality duties); Powell v Hounslow LBC (possession claims and human rights); Hotak v Southwark (definition of priority need); Maries v Merton LBC (local authority land development); Haque v Hackney LBC (homelessness and public sector equality duty); Menon v Herefordshire (misfeasance in public office); Gullu v Hillingdon LBC (social housing allocations); Summers v Richmond LBC (public space protection orders}, and Pinto v Merton LBC (interpretation of a planning permission).
Kelvin was called to the Bar in 1989 (Middle Temple); Silk 2013; Visiting Fellow University of Essex.
Memberships
Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA).
Education
University of Essex (LLB Hons); University of London (LLM).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Court of Protection and community care
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Social housing
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Kelvin Rutledge KC –Cornerstone Barristers ‘Kelvin is an exceptional silk.’
The ‘very good housing set‘ Cornerstone Barristers is highly regarded for its expertise at handling the full range of housing law matters; ‘the wealth of barristers with knowledge on housing law is phenomenal‘. Ranjit Bhose KC regularly represents social landlords, housing associations and local housing authorities in a broad spectrum of work, and Kelvin Rutledge KC has an excellent track record in handling homelessness cases and housing allocation matters. Dean Underwood ‘knows housing law through and through‘ and is ‘calm on his feet‘, and Andrew Lane is ‘a smiling assassin‘ – ‘his advocacy style is very effective‘. In March 2023 Kuljit Bhogal KC was appointed to silk.