‘The level of fees to be paid under the Employment Tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunal Fees Order 2013 did not breach European Union principles of effectiveness or equivalence.’
WLR Daily, 7th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Lincolnshire County Council has become the latest local authority to face judicial review proceedings over proposed cuts to its libraries.’
Local Government Lawyer, 12th February 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The widow of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko who was killed in London has moved a step closer to a public inquiry into her husband’s death.’
BBC News, 11th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A campaign group is going to the High Court to challenge a move by Lincolnshire County Council to change its library system.’
BBC News, 11th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Last week, the Justice Secretary published the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill. The implications of his revised proposals for judicial review reform are considered in this week’s roundup, along with controversy over gay rights at the Winter Olympics and recent trends in defamation cases before the Court of Human Rights.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th February 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Changes to the rules governing judicial review (JR) claims will ensure that those challenging the decisions of public bodies face a “fair level of financial risk”, the Government has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 7th February 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘At first sight, proposals full of sound and fury, and signifying not a great deal for planning and environmental challenges. There are some slippery costs changes which we need to look at, but some of the potentially more concerning proposals do not fully apply to this area, as I shall explain. There are also some perfectly sensible proposals about harmonising planning challenges which lawyers have been advocating for years.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 9th February 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘R (on the application of PK) v Harrow LBC (2014) QBD Admin 30 January 2014. The Claimants were the children of M. The family was street homeless and destitute following eviction. It appears that Harrow had decided there was no duty to accommodate M, as the family was referred to Social Services.’
NearlyLegal, 9th February 2014
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/
‘Public lawyers across the country are anxiously scrutinising yesterday’s response by the Lord Chancellor, Chris Grayling, to the Judicial Review consultation and the associated Criminal Justice and Courts Bill. They are seeking to ascertain the extent to which access to judicial review will be restricted and, in the case of many firms with legal aid contracts in public law, to see if whether their business will remain financially viable at all.’
UK Constitutional Law Group, 6th February 2014
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘Controversial proposals to restrict judicial review will go ahead by way of a “a tough package of reform”, the government confirmed yesterday. Publishing its response to the consultation, Judicial Review: Proposals for further reform, the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, said: “I believe in protecting judicial review as a check on unlawful executive action, but I am equally clear that it should not be abused, to act as a brake on growth.”
LegalVoice, 6th February 2014
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
R (L) v West London Mental Health NHS Trust [2014] EWCA Civ 47 ; [2014] WLR (D) 44
‘The common law duty to act fairly was engaged when a decision was made as to whether to transfer a patient detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 from a medium to a high security hospital. Where the decision was largely a clinically-based decision with a rationing aspect, there was a need for circumspection as to what procedure was required. Absent urgency, a clinical reason precluding notification, or some other reason such as the exposure of other patients or staff to the risk of harm, the “gists” of the letter of reference to the high security hospital by the hospital that wished to transfer the patient and the assessment by the clinician from the high security hospital ought to be provided to the patient and/or hisrepresentative, and the patient should be afforded an opportunity to make written submissions to the decision-making panel.’
WLR Daily, 29th January 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Key building projects which generate thousands of jobs in communities across the UK will benefit from changes to tackle costly and unnecessary legal delays under plans to speed up and reform the Judicial Review system announced today by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling.’
Ministry of Justice, 5th February 2014
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
‘A woman who was stopped and searched by police after her Oyster travel card was refused has had a legal challenge dismissed by the court of appeal.’
The Guardian, 4th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Supreme Court, 29th January 2014
‘Arrests made because the police had reasonable grounds for believing a breach of the peace was imminent and effected for the purpose of bringing those arrested before the magistrates’ court, if that were to become necessary, so as to prolong detention on a lawful basis, complied with article 5(1)(c) of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.’
WLR Daily, 22nd January 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘This judicial review permission hearing raises very significant issues for post Localism Act Council allocation policies. The central issue is the Council’s ability under the Act to set an allocation policy that includes ‘qualifying classes’ and excludes other classes.’
NearlyLegal, 28th January 2014
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Appeal court judges have cleared the way for a family to continue their legal challenge over the way decisions are made not to attempt resuscitation of critically ill patients in England.’
The Guardian, 24th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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