High Court challenge to library closures in the West – BBC News
“Two county councils which want to close libraries in the west of England are facing a judicial review.”
BBC News, 3rd May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: judicial review
Councils mount legal challenge over academies cuts – BBC News
“A group of English local authorities are mounting a legal challenge against government budget cuts tied to its academies expansion programme.”
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BBC News, 3rd May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
MoJ could face judicial review challenge over civil cost reforms – Law Society’s Gazette
“Charitable group the Public Law Project (PLP) has threatened to launch a legal challenge to the Ministry of Justice’s civil costs and funding reforms.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 28th April 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Public will be ‘barred’ from justice in legal aid reform, warn lawyer group – Daily Telegraph
“The public will be effectively barred from fighting incompetent doctors and councils in the courts under plans to cut legal aid, the body representing lawyers warned yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st April 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Filesharing: BT and TalkTalk fail in challenge to Digital Economy Act – The Guardian
“Government plans to curb illegal filesharing received a significant boost on Wednesday, as a judicial review of the controversial Digital Economy Act failed to halt the legislation.”
The Guardian, 20th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
UK banks lose payment protection insurance challenge – BBC News
“UK banks have lost a judicial review that could have a major impact on whether more compensation has to be paid on mis-sold loan insurance..”
BBC News, 20th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Public sector workers launch legal challenge to pension reforms – Daily Telegraph
“Public sector workers have launched a legal challenge in the High Count to prevent changes to their gold-plated pensions.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th April 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina (Maftah and another) v Secretary of State for the Foreign Office and Commonwealth Affairs – WLR Daily
“The determination of a claim for judicial review challenging decisions whereby the claimants were placed, as persons believed to be associated with terrorism, on a list the effect of which was that their assets were frozen and release of any funds was placed in the discretion of the state, would not involve the determination of the claimants’ ‘civil rights’ for the purposes of article 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as scheduled to the Human Rights Act 1998.”
WLR Daily, 13th April 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Judge attacks ‘deplorable’ row over top Catholic school – Daily Telegraph
“A judge today condemned a ‘deplorable’ legal dispute between church leaders and parents over control of a top Roman Catholic comprehensive.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th April 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
High Court challenge to court closures – Law Society’s Gazette
“The High Court is set to hear the first of four legal challenges to magistrates’ courts closures, the Gazette has learned.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 14th April 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
The practicalities of using judicial review – Law Society’s Gazette
“To many clients, judicial review provides the opportunity to seek redress for the subjectively perceived wrongdoing of a public authority. It is a perception replete with misunderstanding and contradiction.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 14th April 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Regina (New London College Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
“A sponsorship licence issued by the United Kingdom Border Agency to a business that was engaged in the provision of educational services to migrants from outside the European Economic Area constituted “possessions” within the meaning of article 1 of the First Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”
WLR Daily, 7th April 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Obesity surgery man loses court fight against PCT – BBC News
“A grandfather has lost his High Court battle over a health trust’s refusal to fund obesity surgery.”
BBC News, 7th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Teenager uses Human Rights Act to sue health authority over vital growth drugs – The Guardian
“A 15-year-old boy who suffers from a rare medical condition that means he cannot eat protein is to make legal history by becoming the first child to sue his local health authority under the Human Rights Act.”
The Guardian, 2nd April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Bomb plotter wins parole challenge – The Independent
“A man jailed for 45 years for plotting to blow up an Israeli airliner won a High Court challenge today against Government refusals to allow his early release.”
The Independent, 1st April 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Regina (Save Britain’s Heritage) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another – WLR Daily
“Demolition works were capable of constituting a project for the purposes of article 1(2) of Council Directive 85/337/EEC on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment.”
WLR Daily, 25th March 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Digital Economy Act: further delay to illegal downloading measures – The Guardian
“Plans to send thousands of warning letters to alleged illegal downloaders have been delayed until next year as the government’s embattled Digital Economy Act is held up by a high court judicial review.”
The Guardian, 28th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Chris Huhne faces legal challenge over nuclear link to cancer in children – The Guardian
“The government has ordered an expansion of the UK’s nuclear programme without properly factoring in evidence that nuclear power stations cause an increase in cancer cases in children living nearby, according to a legal challenge in the high court.”
The Guardian, 25th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (Parsipoor) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Regina (Salih and another) v Same – WLR Daily
“A claimant in a claim for judicial review was entitled to an oral hearing even where the claims were academic.”
WLR Daily, 17th March 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Regina (Medical Justice) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
“Where a party sought permission to appeal from a judge and permission was granted on terms, that party had no right to appeal against those terms by reason of section 54(4) of the Access to Justice Act 1999, unless the party concerned was not present at the permission hearing at which the terms were imposed. The proper course was either to accept the terms, or to treat them as a refusal of permission and to make a fresh application under section 54(4) to the appropriate appeal court for permission.”
WLR Daily, 16th March 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
