Results: 154

• R (Cart) v Upper Tribunal (Public Law Project intervening) (R (C) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Public Law Project intervening), R (U) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Public Law Project intervening))

  01 Dec 2009 [2009] EWHC 3052 (Admin); [2011] QB 120; [2010] 2 WLR 1012; [2010] PTSR 824; [2010] 1 All ER 908; [2010] STC 493, DC

  23 Jul 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 859; [2011] QB 120; [2011] 2 WLR 36; [2011] PTSR 42; [2010] 4 All ER 714; [2010] STC 2556; [2010] WLR (D) 198, CA (Laws LJ, Owen J)

  22 Jun 2011 [2011] UKSC 28; [2012] 1 AC 663; [2011] 3 WLR 107; [2011] PTSR 1053; [2011] 4 All ER 127; [2011] STC 1659; [2012] 1 FLR 997; [2011] WLR (D) 203; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 6 positive; 5 neutral; most recently considered: 2021. Subsequent citations: 158.
  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Court's jurisdiction — Special Immigration Appeals Commission

  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Court's jurisdiction — Upper Tribunal
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  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Court's jurisdiction — Special Immigration Appeals Commission — Commission “superior court of record” — Commission revoking and refusing bail on basis of closed evidence without disclosing gist to claimants — Decisions unappealable — Whether commission alter ego of High Court — Whether decisions susceptible to judicial review — Whether violating claimants' Convention rights — Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997, s 1(3) (as inserted by Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, s 35)

  JUDICIAL REVIEW — Court's jurisdiction — Upper Tribunal — Tribunal “superior court of record” — Tribunal refusing permission to appeal to itself — Decision unappealable — Whether tribunal alter ego of High Court — Whether decision susceptible to judicial review — Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, s 3(5)

  16 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• R (Morge) v Hampshire County Council

  17 Nov 2009 [2009] EWHC 2940 (Admin); [2010] Env LR 432, QBD (Judge Bidder QC)

  10 Jun 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 608; [2010] PTSR 1882; [2010] LGR 961; [2010] WLR (D) 145, CA

  19 Jan 2011 [2011] UKSC 2; [2011] 1 WLR 268; [2011] PTSR 337; [2011] 1 All ER 744; [2011] LGR 271; [2011] WLR (D) 5; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 124.
  EUROPEAN UNION — Environment — Natural habitats

  PLANNING — Development — Natural habitats
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  EUROPEAN UNION — Environment — Natural habitats — Local planning authority granting permission for development affecting species or habitat of European protected species — Whether effects of development constituting “deliberate disturbance” of protected species — Whether planning decision made in breach of requirements of Council Directive — Council Directive 92/43/EEC, art 12(1)(b)

  PLANNING — Development — Natural habitats — European protected species — Local planning authority granting planning permission for development affecting species or habitat of bats — Whether effects of development constituting “deliberate disturbance” of protected species — Whether necessary to consider indirect, as well as direct, impact upon “deterioration or destruction of breeding sites or resting places” — Whether planning decision made in breach of requirements of Habitats Directive — Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c) Regulations 1994 (as amended by Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c) (Amendment) Regulations 2007, reg 5 and Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009, reg 7), regs 3(4), 39 — Council Directive 92/43/EEC, art 12(1)(b)(d)

  5 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R (McDonald) v Kensington and Chelsea Royal London Borough Council

  13 Oct 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 1109; [2011] LGR 246, CA (Rix, Wilson LJJ, Sir David Keene)

  06 Jul 2011 (Age UK intervening) [2011] UKSC 33; [2011] PTSR 1266; [2011] 4 All ER 881; [2012] LGR 107; [2011] WLR (D) 218; Case details, SC(E)

  20 May 2014 (2015) 60 EHRR 1; (2014) 17 CCLR 187; The Times, 13 June 2014, ECtHR

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 65.
  SOCIAL SECURITY — Community care services — Assessment of needs
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  SOCIAL SECURITY — Community care services — Assessment of needs — Claimant with medical condition necessitating frequent urination — Claimant needing help to access lavatory or commode — Local authority assessing claimant’s needs as including assistance to use commode at night — Authority subsequently deciding that need capable of being met by provision of incontinence pads — Whether lawful — National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, s 47 — Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (as amended by Disability Discrimination Act 2005, ss 2, 3), ss 21B(1), 21D(2)(5), 21E, 49A — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch I, Pt 1, art 8

  5 Case(s) considered

  3 Statutes considered
• R (B) v Islington London Borough Council

  20 Aug 2010 [2010] EWHC 2539 (Admin); [2011] PTSR 716; [2010] WLR (D) 236, QBD (Cranston J)

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 3.
  EDUCATION — Local education authority — Duty to make special educational provision
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  EDUCATION — Local education authority — Duty to make special educational provision — Local authority making statement of special educational needs in respect of child — Statement ceasing at end of school year when young person turning 19 — Young person requiring two more years of secondary education to complete A-levels — Whether local education authority having duty to maintain statement of special educational needs beyond end of school year when young person turning 19 — Meaning of “child” — Education Act 1996 (as amended by Local Education Authorities and Children's Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010, art 5(1), Sch 2, para 7(2)), ss 2(5), 312(5), 324(1)

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• R (Save Britain’s Heritage) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

  14 May 2010 [2010] EWHC 979 (Admin); [2011] Env LR 89, QBD (Judge Pelling QC)

  25 Mar 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 334; [2011] PTSR 1140; [2011] LGR 493; [2011] WLR (D) 107, CA

  Subsequent citations: 13.
  EUROPEAN UNION — Environment — Environmental impact assessment
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  EUROPEAN UNION — Environment — Environmental impact assessment — Demolition works — Secretary of State issuing direction excluding most demolition works from requirement for planning permission — Direction stating demolition works not “development” or “project” for purposes of EU legislation — Whether demolition “execution of … other … schemes” — Whether “project” — Whether “urban development project” — Whether direction lawful — Whether planning permission for demolition required — Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended by Planning and Compensation Act 1991, s 13(1)(2)), s 55(1)(1A)(2) — Town and Country Planning (Demolition–Description of Buildings) Direction 1995, para 2(1)(a)–(d) — Council Directive 85/337/EEC (as amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC and Parliament and Council Directive 2003/35/EC), art 1(2), Annex II, para 10(b)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 EU Enactment considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council v Hickin

  27 Jul 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 868; [2010] 1 WLR 2254; [2011] PTSR 103 {0} {1}, CA

  24 Mar 2011 (appn all) [2011] 1 WLR 920; [2011] PTSR 579, SC(E)

  25 Jul 2012 [2012] UKSC 39; [2012] 1 WLR 2295; [2012] PTSR 1272; [2012] 4 All ER 867; [2012] WLR (D) 224; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  HOUSING — Secure tenancy — Death of tenant
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  HOUSING — Secure tenancy — Death of tenant — Local housing authority granting periodic tenancy to husband and wife as joint tenants — Husband subsequently leaving property while wife and daughter continuing to reside in it as only and main residence — On wife’s death authority serving notice to quit on husband as surviving sole tenant and claiming possession against daughter — Whether wife’s death giving daughter statutory right to succeed to tenancy — Whether authority entitled to possession — Housing Act 1985 (as amended by Housing Act 1996, ss 141(1), 222, Sch 14, para 1, Sch 18, para 10 and Civil Partnership Act 2004, ss 81, 261(4), Sch 8, paras 20, 21(2), 22(2)(3), Sch 30, para 1) ss 87, 88(1), 89

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• R (Shoesmith) v Ofsted

  23 Apr 2010 [2010] EWHC 852 (Admin); [2011] PTSR D13; [2010] WLR (D) 102, QBD

  27 May 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 642; [2011] ICR 1195; [2011] PTSR 1459; [2011] LGR 649; [2011] WLR (D) 184, CA

  Subsequent citations: 25.
  CHILDREN — Children's services — Ministerial directions
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  CHILDREN — Children's services — Ministerial directions — Ofsted inspection and report into functioning of local authority child care services — Secretary of State’s directions requiring local authority to remove claimant from office as director of children’s services — Local authority summarily dismissing claimant — Whether failure of Ofsted to provide claimant with proper opportunity for discussion rendering inspection unlawful — Whether Secretary of State’s reliance on Ofsted report and failure to afford claimant opportunity to be heard rendering claimant’s removal from office unlawful — Whether local authority acting unlawfully in terminating claimant’s contract of employment — Whether judicial review of termination of employment contract appropriate — Education Act 1996 (c 56), s 497A(4B) (as inserted by School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c 31), s 8, amended by Education Act 2002 (c 32), s 60 and modified by Children Act 2004 (c 31), s 50) — Children Act 2004 (c 31), s 20(1)(b)(5)(6)

  1 Case considered

  2 Statutes considered
• R (Child Poverty Action Group) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

  27 Feb 2009 [2009] EWHC 341 (Admin); [2009] 3 All ER 633, QBD (Michael Supperstone QC sitting as a deputy High Court judge)

  14 Oct 2009 [2009] EWCA Civ 1058; [2010] 1 WLR 1886; [2010] PTSR 958; [2010] 2 All ER 113; [2009] WLR (D) 296, CA (Sedley, Lloyd, Wilson LJJ)

  08 Dec 2010 [2010] UKSC 54; [2011] 2 AC 15; [2011] 2 WLR 1; [2011] PTSR 185; [2011] 1 All ER 729; [2010] WLR (D) 322; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers PSC, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Dyson JJSC)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 39.
  SOCIAL SECURITY — Overpayment of benefit — Recovery
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  SOCIAL SECURITY — Overpayment of benefit — Recovery — Statutory right of recovery limited to misrepresentation or non-disclosure — Whether Secretary of State entitled at common law to recover benefits paid by mistake under erroneous award — Social Security Administration Act 1992, s 71(1)

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• R (Conservative and Unionist Party) v Election Comr

  19 Feb 2010 [2010] EWHC 285 (Admin); [2010] PTSR 937, QBD

  23 Nov 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 1332; [2011] PTSR 416; [2010] WLR (D) 296, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Election — Petition
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Election — Petition — Costs — Election court ordering respondent to pay successful petitioner's costs — Respondent failing to pay costs — Petitioner applying to election commissioner for order for costs against non-party which funded respondent's defence — Scope of power to award costs against non-party — Senior Courts Act 1981, s 51(1)(3) (as substituted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, s 4(1)) — Representation of the People Act 1983 (as amended by Representation of the People Act 1985, s 24, Sch 4, para 51(a)), ss 145, 154(1), 156

  3 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

• Clift v Slough Borough Council

  06 Jul 2009 [2009] EWHC 1550 (QB); [2009] 4 All ER 756, QBD (Tugendhat J)

  21 Dec 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 1484; [2011] 1 WLR 1774; [2011] PTSR 990; [2011] 3 All ER 118; [2010] WLR (D) 343, CA

  Subsequent citations: 11.
  DEFAMATION — Privilege — Qualified
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  DEFAMATION — Privilege — Qualified — Local authority circulating e-mail and entry of claimant's name on violent persons register to employees, partner organisations and supernumerary employees — Whether existing relationship between local authority and publishees definitive of availability of qualified privilege absent malice — Relevance of local authority's duty or lack of duty to publish — Whether publication disproportionate interference with claimant's Convention right to respect for private life — Whether occasion of communication protected by qualified privilege — Human Rights Act 1998, s 6(1), Sch 1, Pt I, art 8

  9 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered