“A campaign group is going to court to try to stop a council’s ‘archaic practice’ of holding prayers before meetings. The National Secular Society (NSS) has instructed a solicitor to take its battle with Bideford Town Council, in Devon, to the High Court, claiming the policy breaches human rights.”
The Independent, 28th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man fined £50 for dropping a cigarette butt down a drain celebrated a victory when the case was thrown out of court.”
The Independent, 24th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Councils spied on dog walkers suspected of not clearing up after their pets in a string of abuses of their covert surveillance rights, a report published today said.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th May 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A High Court injunction has been won by a council to stop travellers building on land they own in a village.”
BBC News, 21st May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
R (Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd) v Wolverhampton City Council [2010] UKSC 20; [2010] WLR (D) 123
“A planning authority, in considering the exercise of its compulsory purchase powers in relation to one site, was not entitled to take into account a commitment by a developer to secure the redevelopment of another unconnected site.”
WLR Daily, 13th May 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A council has been told it breached the Freedom of Information Act by failing to provide an AM details about the cost of employing education consultants.”
BBC News, 14th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The former archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, today [7th May] backed the saying of prayers before council meetings as a pressure group prepared to launch a legal battle on the issue.”
The Guardian, 7th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Apart from hopeless or abusive cases, a local authority faced with an application for support and accommodation pending the determination of an arguable application for leave to remain on human rights grounds, should not refuse assistance if that would have the effect of requiring the person to leave the United Kingdom thereby forfeiting his claim.”
WLR Daily, 30th April 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“Hundreds of female council employees who took their claims for equal pay to an employment tribunal have won their case.”
BBC News, 27th April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina (Shoesmith) v Ofsted and others [2010] EWHC 852(Admin); [2010] WLR (D) 102
“The duty of fairness which arose in respect of an Ofsted inspection carried out pursuant to s 20 of the Children Act 2004 was derived from a duty to carry out a bona fide and open-minded inspection into the operation of local authority departments and systems of safeguarding and not to inspect individuals. When making directions pursuant to s 497A of the Education Act 1996 (as inserted by s 8 of the School Standard and Framework Act 1998) to remove an office holder, the Secretary of State could, in certain circumstances, put the wider interests of child safeguarding above the interest of an individual office holder to be treated fairly. That should not mean that the individual concerned should be deprived of her reputation or other contractual or statutory rights. An individual removed from office pursuant to s 497A who had standing to bring a claim against the employer authority in the employment tribunal should bring that claim first and pursue a claim for judical review against her employer only as a last resort.”
WLR Daily, 26th April 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“Former children’s services chief Sharon Shoesmith today lost her High Court battle over her sacking following the death of Baby P. Mr Justice Foskett, sitting in London, rejected accusations that her removal by Children’s Secretary Ed Balls was procedurally flawed, unfair and unlawful.”
The Independent, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Strip clubs could use the Human Rights Act to oppose legislation allowing councils greater freedom to turn down lap-dancing licence applications, venue owners say.”
The Guardian, 19th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Families that brought a class action over the biggest case of child poisoning since thalidomide were celebrating tonight after reaching an out-of-court settlement with their local council. The result ends an 11-year battle waged by the families of 19 children born with deformities caused by toxic dust from a former steelworks in Corby, Northamptonshire.”
The Guardian, 16th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Sustainable Communities Act 2007 (Amendment) Act 2010 published
Full text of Act (PDF)
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“Guidance for county courts hearing applications for possession orders by local authority landlords of non-secure tenancies where the occupier, being an introductory tenant or a homeless person housed by the local authority, sought to challenge the local authority’s decision to recover possession as an improper exercise of its powers at common law on the ground that it was a decision that no reasonable person would consider justifiable.”
WLR Daily, 7th April 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“Lap-dancing clubs in England must apply to councils for a licence under new rules which have come into force.”
BBC News, 6th April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Office of Fair Trading should investigate the recent trend of councils producing their own local newspapers, according to a committee of MPs that accuses some authorities of using public cash to finance publications that are little more than political propaganda.”
The Guardian, 6th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In failing to provide access to unrefined information, the council was not acting in a way that was contrary to the Government’s intention not to impose an obligation on authorities to allow such access, nor to the aims and purposes of the statutory provisions, including the subsidiary legislation made by the Secretary of State.”
WLR Daily, 23rd March 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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