“The Secretary of State was entitled to use the new certification provisions in sections 2C of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997, as inserted by section 15 of the Justice and Security Act 2013, to terminate existing judicial review proceedings in which she was herself a party.”
WLR Daily, 9th August 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Green-belt campaigners have successfully challenged a scheme to turn the former home of press baron Lord Beaverbrook into a hotel and golf course, with a judgment that ‘engages the fundamentals of planning law’.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd August 2013
Surce: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The judge gave the Allliance permission to seek judicial review of the Secretary of State’s decision about re-burial. But I question the result – does the Alliance really have a legal right to be consulted about where Richard III is to be re-buried?”
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd August 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Lawyers representing a Brazilian man detained at Heathrow airport have begun judicial review proceedings against the Home Office and the police.”
BBC News, 22nd August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“This week, judicial review continued to take a beating, the Home Office backed down over their ‘Go Home’ campaign and the legal implications behind the twitter threat debacle were considered. And, finally, the immigration and asylum tribunal launched a useful online search service.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th August 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Distant relatives of Richard III have been granted permission for a judicial review of the decision to rebury the king’s remains in Leicester.”
BBC News, 16th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina (Nash) v Barnet London Borough Council [2013] EWCA Civ 1004; [2013] WLR (D) 335
“A local authority’s duty to consult under section 3(2) of the Local Government Act 1999 arose at a formative stage of the relevant process when the authority made arrangements to secure continuous improvement in the way in which its functions were exercised within section 3(1) of the Act. For the purposes of CPR r 54.5, a judicial review claim challenging the authority’s lack of consultation had to be brought within three months of the date when the grounds to make the claim had first arisen. That was the date the defendant authority had taken the decision to enter the procurement process for outsourcing, and since the claim had not been issued until the decision to enter into the contracts had been taken, it was out of time.”
WLR Daily, 2nd August 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Scotland Yard has announced it will support a legal challenge by one of its firearms officers attempting to overturn an official ruling that he unlawfully shot and killed a suspect.”
The Guardian, 13th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government’s termination of existing judicial review proceedings via certification under the Justice and Security Act was ‘troubling’ but lawful. Parliament’s intention was clear, even though there were no new rules in force yet.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 12th August 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Desmond Rutledge considers the scenarios in which judicial review is available as a solution to certain housing benefit issues and provides specific examples of housing benefit decisions that are susceptible to judicial review.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 13th August 2013
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
“A group of London councils is preparing to take legal action over the decision to shut 10 fire stations as part of plans to make £28.8m savings.”
BBC News, 10th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The High Court has rejected claims for a judicial review of the so-called ‘bedroom tax’. Its judgment brings to an end – for the time being at least – months of speculation about the lawfulness of arguably the most controversial aspect of the Government’s welfare reform programme.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 31st July 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“A group of allotment-holders is celebrating victory over Eric Pickles in a long-running battle over the development of a site that has been used for more than a century.”
The Independent, 2nd August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The High Court has unanimously dismissed an application for a declaration that the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ discriminates unlawfully against disabled claimants.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 31st July 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The headline here, as has been widely tweeted/flashed etc, is that the challenge to the bedroom tax contained in Regulation B13, Housing Benefit Regulations (both generically and specifically in relation to households with a disabled person) was unsuccessful in the Divisional Court (R(MA) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2013] EWHC 2213 – not on Baili yet, but available to download from Adam Wagner’s site); but the Court came close to granting injunctive relief against the Secretary of State to make regulations bringing Burnip/Gorry into effect, as opposed to relying simply on a Circular. The DWP had argued that they were entitled to rely on guidance by way of Circular ‘pending a decision on whether and at what point in time to introduce regulations’ (Laws LJ’s emphasis). On that point, rarely have I read such strong words as appear in Laws LJ’s judgment at [91]-[92]. That is an ouch moment for the DWP which, I bet, will not be widely reported, so let me headline the quote here: ‘The Secretary of State has no business considering whether to introduce regulations to conform HB provision with the judgment in Gorry. He is obliged to do so.’ The only thing which stopped injunctive relief was that their drafting was ‘under consideration’ after 14 months (!).”
NearlyLegal, 3oth July 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“The Divisional Court gave guidance on the practice to be followed on an application for a search warrant under the special procedure in section 9 of and Schedule 1 to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, and reiterated the information required to be supplied by a constable to the court on such an application, including the need to give full and frank disclosure.”
WLR Daily, 23rd July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Campaigners have vowed to fight on after a legal attempt to block the Government’s so-called ‘bedroom tax’ was thrown out by the High Court.”
The Independent, 30th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“According to reports in yesterday’s Times (£) and Telegraph, the government is planning a further set of reforms to judicial review. (I have written before about why the original proposals, published in December 2012, were objectionable—and about the fact that the government pressed ahead with many, but not all, of them, excoriating criticism notwithstanding.)”
UK Human Rights Blog, 30th July 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Hundreds of vulnerable teenagers will be at risk of harm or falling into prostitution under government plans to restrict judicial review, lawyers specialising in actions against local authorities have warned.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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