‘A 77-year-old former miner was deprived of his liberty – without proper account of the law being taken – when he was prevented from going home to die beside his brother, a joint report from two Ombudsmen has found.’
Local Government Lawyer, 4th March 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A district council faces having to make a significant payout to exporters of live animals after a High Court ruled that the authority did not have power to impose a temporary ban on shipment.’
Local Government Lawyer, 3rd March 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘An inspector was entitled to find that land subject to an application for registration as a village green had ceased to be used “as of right”, a High Court judge has found.’
OUT-LAW.com, 28th February 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Paul Griffiths, a planning inspector nicknamed “Inspector Blight” because of the number of wind farms he has approved, is criticised in a Court of Appeal judgement over his interpretation of guidelines’
Daily Telegraph, 28th February 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Westminster City Council has been given permission to take to the Supreme Court the landmark Hemming case concerning the setting of licensing and regulatory fees.’
Local Government Lawyer, 28th February 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Gamblers in England and Wales will be able to set their own limits on time and money spent on high-stakes gaming machines in betting shops.’
BBC News, 28th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Local authorities no longer run many of our publicly funded schools in England but still have plenty to occupy them in the education field. They have a role in the setting up of new academies. They still run their maintained community schools. In Wales, they remain the Welsh government’s preferred providers of state education. They have intervention powers and can suspend a school’s delegated budget.’
11 KBW, 24th February 2014
Source: www.11kbw.com
Regina (Cornwall Council) v Secretary of State for Health [2014] EWCA Civ 12; [2014] WLR (D) 80
‘When resolving questions as to the “ordinary residence” of an adult man suffering from multiple complex disabilities, the test whereby a person who was so severely handicapped as to be totally dependent on a parent was in the same position as a small child and his ordinary residence was that of his parents because that was his base, was not to be followed.’
WLR Daily, 18th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A new First Tier Tribunal bedroom tax appeal decision from Liverpool, again a successful one, and this time on wholly new grounds.’
NearlyLegal, 18th February 2014
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘The residents of Hardhorn, in Lancashire, won at the Supreme Court but still face a £200,000 legal bill.’
Daily Telegraph, 19th February 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Hamnett v Essex County Council [2014] EWHC 246 (Admin); [2014] WLR (D) 72
‘The Administrative Court, hearing a claim for a statutory review brought under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, did not have jurisdiction to investigate an alleged breach of section 29 of the Equality Act 2010.’
WLR Daily, 13th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision by a council’s licensing sub-committee to refuse to renew a licence for a sexual entertainment venue.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th February 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A claimant has successfully challenged a council’s decision to uphold its reversal of a previous decision to disregard a property owned by her mother in calculating the mother’s ability to pay care home fees.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th February 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘This sounds like a rather odd case, noted on the Garden Court bulletin. It is a refusal to grant permission for Judicial Review of a Council’s refusal to carry out a review of the method it had decided upon to discharge its full housing duty.’
NearlyLegal, 17th February 2014
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Whilst a “home” in paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 4 to the National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1992 was to be read as the only or main home it also denoted a place to which a person had a degree of both physical and emotional attachment.’
WLR Daily, 10th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A county council this week won a High Court battle over its decision to end blue-badge access to part of a town centre, but the case looks certain to end up in the Court of Appeal.’
Local Government Lawyer, 14th February 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Where an application was made to renew a sexual entertainment venue licence, the decision maker had to have due regard to fact that the earlier licence had been granted. If no relevant circumstances had changed, he was required to give his reasons for departing from the previous decision when renewal was refused.’
WLR Daily, 11th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A planning inspector’s decision to grant planning permission for a residential development with no affordable housing to prevent a delay in the contribution the development would make to the local authority’s housing land supply was rational and supported by sufficient reasons, a High Court judge has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 13th February 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
Regina v Walker & Son (Hauliers) Ltd [2014] EWCA Crim 100; [2014] WLR (D) 49
‘If a defendant knew that waste operations were occurring on his land, ignorance of the fact that such operations were being carried out in breach of the requirement for an environmental permit was no defence to a charge of knowingly permitting the operation of a regulated facility without an environmental permit.’
WLR Daily, 6th 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
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