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Latest Cases

News
3 May
2013

Latest Cases

Cases - 3 May 2013

03 May 2013

Regulatory Law Perry v Nursing and Midwifery Council [2013] EWCA Civ 145; (2013) PLLR 040   Grounds of Judicial Review R (on the application...

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News
26 Apr
2013

Latest Cases

Cases - April 13

26 April 2013

Community Care Care North East Northumberland, Members of the Committee of, R (on the application of) v Northumberland County Council [2013] EWHC 234...

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Opinion and News

News
21 May
2013

Opinion and News

The cost of being in breach of the HRA

21 May 2013

This title refers not to the human cost, the political cost or the reputational cost, but to the straightforward financial impact. Recent weeks have...

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News
21 May
2013

Opinion and News

When can a beach be a village green?

21 May 2013

This was the somewhat odd question posed by East Sussex Council and Newhaven Town Council before the Court of Appeal recently. However, we shouldn't...

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Immigration

News
3 May
2013

Immigration

R (on the application of Das) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 682 (Admin); (2013) PLLR 054

03 May 2013

Immigration - Detention - Policy - Damages The Secretary of State had failed to consider the relevant policy as to detention of those suffering from...

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News
3 May
2013

Immigration

R (on the application of Z) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 498 (Admin); (2013) PLLR 053

03 May 2013

Immigration - Restraint - ECHR - Redaction - Public Interest Immigration:restraintImmigration:framework manual for the control of those on board aircraft...

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Healthcare

News
3 May
2013

Healthcare

R (on the application of Save Our Surgery Ltd) v Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts [2013] EWHC 439 (Admin); (2013) PLLR 048

03 May 2013

Healthcare - Surgery - Consultation - Scores The sub-scores in relation to quality were a relevant consideration in the decision of what list of specialist...

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News
31 Jan
2013

Healthcare

R (on the application of Tracey) v Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation and Others [2012] EWHC 3670 (Admin); (2013) PLLR 010

31 January 2013

Healthcare - Fact determination - Resuscitation Orders The Court held that medical staff had explained the effect of ‘Do Not Resuscitate Orders...

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Education

News
15 Apr
2013

Education

Burger v Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education [2013] EWHC 172 (Admin); (2013) PLLR 035

15 April 2013

Education - Local remedies - Assessment Criteria The Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education had wrongly found that assessment criteria did not...

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News
15 Apr
2013

Education

R (on the application of London Borough of Lewisham and Others) v Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) and Others [2013] EWHC 211 (Admin); (2013) PLLR 033

15 April 2013

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Housing

News
2 May
2013

Housing

Sharif v London Borough of Camden [2013] UKSC 10; (2013) PLLR 045

02 May 2013

Local government - housing - section 176 Housing Act 1996 - offer of accommodation - family - meaning of accommodation ‘together with' family...

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News
9 Oct
2012

Housing

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council v Hickin [2012] UKSC 39 (2012) PLLR 128

09 October 2012

  Local authority housing - joint tenancy - secure tenancy - occupation - common law - Housing Act 1985 - survivorship - transmission of joint...

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Planning & Environment

News
2 May
2013

Planning & Environment

R (on the application of UK Recyclate Ltd) v (1) Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and (2) Welsh Ministers [2013] EWHC 425 (Admin); (2013) PLLR 043

02 May 2013

Environment - recycling - European Directive 2008/98/EC - ‘Waste Framework Directive' - whether transposition properly implemented Directive...

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News
28 Feb
2013

Planning & Environment

Walton v The Scottish Ministers [2012] UKSC 44; (2013) PLLR 016

28 February 2013

Environmental assessment - Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive 2001/42/EC - relationship with Environmental Assessment Directive 85/337/EC...

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Grounds of Judicial Review

News
2 May
2013

Grounds of Judicial Review

R (on the application of X) v London Borough of Tower Hamlets [2013] EWHC 480 (Admin); (2013) PLLR 044

02 May 2013

Children - local authority - foster care - payment of allowances - section 22C Children Act 1989 - section 49 Children Act 2004 - section 7 Local Authorities...

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News
2 May
2013

Grounds of Judicial Review

R (on the application of A) v Chief Constable of Kent Constabulary [2013] EWHC 424 (Admin); (2013) PLLR 041

02 May 2013

Police - criminal records - disclosure - section 113B(4) Police Act 1997 - allegations - Articles 3 and 8 European Convention on Human Rights interference...

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