Category: airports

Secretaries of State grant London Luton Airport Operations Ltd’s s73 Application to Fly 1 million more Passengers per annum – 39 Essex Chambers

Posted November 21st, 2023 in airlines, airports, chambers articles, news by sally

‘On 13 October 2023 the Secretary of State for Transport and the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities granted an application made under s73 Town and Country Planning Act 1990 by London Luton Airport Operations Limited (‘LLAOL’) to amend planning conditions attached to its planning permission. The grant of consent allows LLAOL to fly an additional one million passengers per annum. The decision followed a 6-week inquiry during 2022.’

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39 Essex Chambers, 16th October 2023

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Airbase asylum plans: High Court gives permission to councils’ challenge – BBC News

Posted July 14th, 2023 in airports, appeals, asylum, government departments, housing, immigration, judicial review, local government, news, refugees by sally

‘A legal bid to challenge the Home Office’s decision to use former airbases to house asylum seekers has been approved by the High Court.’

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BBC News, 14th July 2023

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Military sites and asylum seeker accommodation – Local Government Lawyer

Posted April 28th, 2023 in airports, asylum, government departments, housing, immigration, injunctions, local government, news, refugees by tracey

‘The High Court recently struck out an application by a council for an injunction to prevent the use of an airfield for asylum accommodation. Paul Brown KC, Nick Grant and Rebecca Sage explain why.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 28th April 2023

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Council takes legal action to stop asylum seekers being sent to Essex airfield – The Guardian

Posted March 27th, 2023 in airports, asylum, government departments, housing, immigration, injunctions, local government, news, refugees by tracey

‘An Essex council is seeking an urgent injunction against the Home Office to try to prevent plans to house asylum seekers on an airfield close to a small village.’

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The Guardian, 26th March 2023

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Doncaster Sheffield Airport: Judicial review over airport closure refused – BBC News

Posted December 2nd, 2022 in airports, judicial review, local government, news by tracey

‘An application for a judicial review into the decision to shut Doncaster Sheffield Airport has been refused, Doncaster Council has said.’

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BBC News, 1st December 2022

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Ali v Heathrow Express Operating Company Ltd & Anor – Equality Law Blog

Posted May 25th, 2022 in airports, appeals, employment, employment tribunals, equality, Islam, news, religious discrimination, terrorism by sally

‘This decision is a reminder that, where unwanted conduct related to a protected characteristic is not intended to offend, intimidate, etc, an objective test applies to the question whether conduct amounts to harassment. The claimant was a Muslim employee of Heathrow Express. He complained of harassment and direct discrimination connected with religion after receiving an email concerning a security test carried out by the second respondent, which was responsible for carrying out security checks at Heathrow Airport and Heathrow Express stations at the airport. The test in question had involved a bag containing a box, some electric cabling and, visible at the top, a piece of paper with the words “Allahu Akbar” written in Arabic. The email reporting on the results of the test and included images of the bag and the note.’

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Equality Law Blog, 24th May 2022

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Case Comment: Her Majesty’s Attorney General v Crosland [2021] UKSC 58 – UKSC Blog

Posted April 27th, 2022 in airports, appeals, attorney general, barristers, climate change, contempt of court, costs, environmental protection, news, Supreme Court by sally

‘Mr Crosland appealed against a decision of the Supreme Court in which he was ordered to pay a fine of £5,000 to HM Paymaster General, and costs of a further £15,000, for contempt of court. The court at first instance (“First Instance Panel”) was satisfied that Mr Crosland committed contempt of court by disclosing the outcome of the court’s judgment in R (on the application of Friends of the Earth) v Heathrow Airport Ltd [2020] UKSC 52 (“Heathrow Judgment”) whilst still in draft and subject to embargo.’

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UKSC Blog, 26th April 2022

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Harassment in employment?: Ali v Heathrow Express – Law & Religion UK

Posted April 20th, 2022 in airports, appeals, employment, employment tribunals, equality, harassment, Islam, news, religious discrimination, terrorism by sally

‘Anis Ali, a Muslim, worked for the Heathrow Express which was at the relevant time run by the first respondent, Heathrow Express Operating Company Ltd. The second respondent, Redline Assured Security Ltd, was responsible for carrying out security checks at the airport and the Heathrow Express stations. The checks involved creating and leaving suspicious objects to test how security officers responded to them, and in August 2017 it carried out a test using a bag containing a box, some electric cable and, visible at the top, a piece of paper with the words “Allahu Akbar” written in Arabic. Subsequently, the Operating Company sent an e-mail reporting on the results of the test and including images of the bag and the note to a group of employees – including Mr Ali.’

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Law & Religion UK, 19th April 2022

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Climate lawyer loses supreme court appeal over Heathrow leak – The Guardian

Posted December 21st, 2021 in airports, appeals, barristers, climate change, contempt of court, costs, disclosure, environmental protection, fines, news, Supreme Court by sally

‘A lawyer and climate campaigner who leaked the result of a supreme court ruling on the Heathrow airport expansion has lost an appeal against a contempt of court finding.’

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The Guardian, 20th December 2021

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New Judgment: Her Majesty’s Attorney General v Crosland [2021] UKSC 58 – UKSC Blog

Posted December 21st, 2021 in airports, appeals, barristers, climate change, contempt of court, costs, disclosure, environmental protection, fines, jurisdiction, news, Supreme Court by sally

‘The court unanimously dismissed this appeal concerning whether the Supreme Court was wrong to decide that the appellant’s disclosure of the result of the Heathrow appeal, in breach of an embargo on the Court’s judgment, constituted a contempt of court. Furthermore, did the Court then wrongly impose a fine of £5,000 on the appellant, and wrongly order him to pay the respondent’s costs in the sum of £15,000?’

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UKSC Blog, 20th December 2021

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Judge issues protest warning as Paralympian jailed for plane stunt – The Guardian

Posted September 27th, 2021 in aircraft, airports, climate change, demonstrations, environmental protection, imprisonment, news, nuisance, sentencing by sally

‘A British Paralympic gold medallist has been jailed for a year for glueing himself to the roof of a passenger jet in an Extinction Rebellion protest – the first custodial sentence for any action linked to the group.’

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The Guardian, 24th September 2021

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Lawyer found guilty of criminal contempt of court, fined £7k for disclosing result of Supreme Court appeal prior to judgment being handed down – Local Government Lawyer

Posted May 12th, 2021 in airports, appeals, barristers, confidentiality, contempt of court, disclosure, environmental protection, fines, judgments, news, Supreme Court by sally

‘The Supreme Court has fined an environmental lawyer £5,000 after finding him in criminal contempt of court for deliberately disclosing the result of an appeal prior to hand down of the judgment.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 11th May 2021

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Environment lawyer fined £5k for contempt in Heathrow case – The Guardian

Posted May 11th, 2021 in airports, climate change, contempt of court, fines, judgments, news, Supreme Court by sally

‘Environmental lawyer Tim Crosland has been fined £5,000 for criminal contempt of court after deliberately making public a supreme court ruling related to Heathrow airport before the result was officially announced. The judges could have jailed him for two years.’

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The Guardian, 10th May 2021

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Airport ordered to pay compensation to home owners over noise – The Independent

Posted April 1st, 2021 in airports, compensation, news, noise by tracey

‘A court has ordered that London Southend Airport should pay a total of £86,500 in compensation to owners of nine neighbouring homes who say their values were diminished by noise following a runway extension.’

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The Independent, 31st March 2021

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‘Stansted 15’ face no further action over airport protest – BBC News

Posted February 26th, 2021 in airports, appeals, Crown Prosecution Service, demonstrations, deportation, immigration, news by tracey

‘Protesters who broke into Stansted Airport to stop a plane deporting people to Africa will face no further action through the courts.’

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BBC News, 25th February 2021

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Legal action begins against climate lawyer in Heathrow expansion row – The Independent

Posted February 19th, 2021 in airports, appeals, barristers, climate change, confidentiality, contempt of court, disclosure, environmental protection, news, professional conduct, Supreme Court by tracey

‘Court proceedings have been launched against a climate charity lawyer for leaking a decision to expand Heathrow Airport.’

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The Independent, 18th February 2021

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The Stansted 15’s quashed conviction shows we were never terrorists – The Guardian

Posted February 2nd, 2021 in airports, appeals, demonstrations, deportation, news, terrorism by sally

“I was one of 15 charged for blocking a deportation flight. We’ve got justice, but victims of the UK’s hostile environment haven’t.”

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The Guardian, 2nd February 2021

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Stansted 15: Activists who stopped migrant deportation flight have convictions overturned – The Independent

Posted February 1st, 2021 in airports, appeals, demonstrations, deportation, human rights, immigration, news, trespass by tracey

‘A group of activists who stopped a deportation flight leaving Stansted airport have had their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal.’

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The Independent, 30th January 2021

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Court of Appeal rules on whether VAT is payable on top of caps on costs in Aarhus Convention claims – Local Government Lawyer

Posted January 14th, 2021 in airports, civil procedure rules, costs, news, statutory interpretation, treaties, VAT by tracey

‘The caps set out in the Civil Procedure Rules on the costs payable by losing parties in Aarhus Convention claims are inclusive of VAT, the Court of Appeal has ruled as part of the third Heathrow runway litigation.’

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Local Government Lawyer, 13th January 2021

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Barrister broke Supreme Court embargo in “act of civil disobedience” – Litigation Futures

Posted December 17th, 2020 in airports, climate change, contempt of court, environmental protection, news, Supreme Court by tracey

‘A barrister broke the embargo on today’s Supreme Court ruling on the Heathrow airport expansion case “as an act of civil disobedience”.’

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Litigation Futures, 16th December 2020

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