“Tax litigation is not the most obvious hunting ground for human rights points but if claimants feel sufficiently pinched by what they perceive as unfair rules, there is nothing to stop them appealing to the courts’ scrutiny of the lawfulness of those rules.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 1st November 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A group of head teachers and councils has launched legal action against the exam regulator Ofqual and two exam boards over June’s English GCSE exam.”
BBC News, 26th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Section 10(2)(a) of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 empowered the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to proceed with a policy involving a grant of licences, whereby farmers and landowners, in areas said to be the worst affected by bovine tuberculosis in England, would be allowed to carry out controlled culling of badgers.”
WLR Daily, 11th September 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The making of a deportation order automatically invalidated a grant of indefinite leave to remain. Revocation of the deportation order would revive the indefinite leave to remain, but in the case of a foreign criminal who could not be deported for legal reasons, the Secretary of State had power to revoke leave under section 76 of the Nationality, Asylum and Immigration Act 2002.”
WLR Daily, 23rd October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal could be asked to carry out a judicial review of a Secretary of State decision on a screening direction for an environmental impact assessment (EIA) and to apply a lower threshold of reasonableness than ‘Wednesbury’ unreasonableness in its assessment.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th October 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Persons who had sought, or been granted, asylum in Italy but had since come to the United Kingdom could not resist return to Italy on the ground that they faced inhuman or degrading treatment there unless it could be shown that there was a systemic deficiency in the system of refugee protection in that country. Short of such evidence, in respect of which the view of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (‘UNHCR’) was pre-eminent, even powerful evidence of individual risk was of no avail.”
WLR Daily, 17th October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Did historic ASB by the daughter of a former evicted tenant allow the local authority to refuse to allow her accommodation in the same area? This was the issue in this judicial review of Bolton-at-Home’s (‘Bolton’) decision to refuse a property to Ms Carney.”
NearlyLegal, 21st October 2012
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“A last-minute legal challenge has dealt a fresh blow to the government’s increasingly troubled cull of badgers in England, the Observer has learned.”
The Guardian, 21st October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The GCSE English fiasco that meant thousands of teenagers missed out on C grades this year faces a high court challenge, it was announced on Wednesday.”
The Guardian, 11th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government had acted unlawfully by removing the Child Poverty Commission, an advisory body set up under the Child Poverty Act 2010 . They had also acted beyond their powers by preparing a child poverty strategy without having requested and having regard to the advice of that Commission. But government is free to formulate new policy and as such there was nothing irrational about the strategy itself.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 2nd October 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“It is impossible to drive through the narrow and high-hedged lanes of Herefordshire without coming across the sad and inevitable outcome of car meeting badger. One estimate is that we may lose as many as 50,000 badgers a year this way. But this case is about whether we should kill a lot more badgers – deliberately.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th September 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Judicial appointments will only go to second-rate lawyers if the lord chancellor fails to do a deal that satisfies judges.”
The Guardian, 28th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The ECtHR’s recent decision in Buckland v UK demonstrates again how wonderfully delphic the subject of housing and Article 8 rights has become.”
NearlyLegal, 23rd September 2012
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“Chong Nyok Keyu and ors v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and another [2012] EWHC 2445 (Admin).
Although the High Court has rejected an attempt to force the Government to hold a public inquiry into an alleged massacre of unarmed civilians by British troops in 1948, the case represents a further example of the use of the Courts to redress historical grievances.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 21st September 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The manoevres by which the Chagossians were evicted from their islands in the Indian Ocean, the late 1960s and early 1970s, so to enable the US to operate an air base on Diego Garcia, do not show the UK Foreign Office in its best light. Indeed, after a severe rebuke from the courts in 2000, the FCO accepted that the original law underlying their departure was unlawful, and agreed to investigate their possible resettlement on some of their islands. The first of these new cases is an environmental information appeal concerning the next phase of the story – how the FCO decided that it was not feasible to resettle the islanders in 2002-2004.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th September 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Campaign group Save Britain’s Heritage (SAVE) has won the right to a judicial review of the Government’s £35 million transitional fund to help councils after the closure of the Housing Market Renewal (HMR) fund.”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th September 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A group of around 150 schools, councils and education bodies have written to Ofqual, the qualifications watchdog, announcing their intention to seek a judicial review of the decision.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Badger Trust fails in attempt to stop two pilot culls aimed at tackling tuberculosis in cattle.”
The Guardian, 11th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“University seeks judicial review after losing highly trusted status for sponsoring international students.”
The Guardian, 11th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Badgers could be shot across England within weeks, barring a last minute legal challenge. Natural England is preparing to issue licenses that will allow farmers to shoot badgers at night in parts of Gloucestershire and Somerset.”
BBCNews, 11th September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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