“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
“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
“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
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“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
“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
“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
“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
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“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
“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
“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
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“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.
“A Wakefield Pc sacked for inappropriate behaviour, including flirting with a drugs suspect, has failed in her High Court bid to get her job back.”
BBC News, 18th March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Managers of a children’s heart surgery unit are to launch legal action to stop it being closed under a long-awaited national review.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th March 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Disabled children and disabled adults need significant support from public bodies to help them lead ordinary lives. These groups require both specialist and targeted services and flexible universal services which can be adapted to their needs.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 10th March 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Prison Officers Association (POA) is to launch a high court bid to prevent the UK’s biggest private prisons contractor from taking over four prisons currently under review.”
The Guardian, 6th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An independent Ombudsman could be appointed to investigate cases in which social workers and the courts are accused of taking children from their homes without justification.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th March 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The government is facing a legal challenge to its controversial plans to cap housing benefit payments on the grounds that large areas of the south-east will become off limits to the poor, with lone parents and ethnic minorities ‘disproportionately affected’.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An alliance of media groups opposed to News Corporation’s takeover of BSkyB, including BT and the publishers of the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Guardian, are considering seeking a judicial review of the government’s approval of the deal on Thursday.”
The Guardian, 3rd March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Pressure is building on culture secretary Jeremy Hunt over library closures, with the mounting of two new legal challenges.”
The Guardian, 1st March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The coalition government wants to reduce the national deficit by billions, but is facing regular court challenges against its decisions to cut budgets. Some have been successful, such as the challenge to the cancellation of a school building programme and to London Councils’ decision to cut the London boroughs’ grants scheme budget — and there are more to come.”
The Guardian, 28th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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