‘Updated guidance setting out how licensing authorities in England and Wales should carry out their duties under the 2003 Licensing Act is now in force, following publication by the Home Office.’
OUT-LAW.com, 10th May 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A Family Division judge has refused an application by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to have care proceedings for child C either dismissed or withdrawn.’
Local Government Lawyer, 9th May 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The High Court has slammed a London council for failing in its duty of candour and told lawyers that they have a responsibility to ensure that all those involved in local authorities are comply with their duty.’
Litigation Futures, 10th May 2018
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Appeal judges have refused to create a duty of care with “potentially serious and costly consequences for very little practical gain” in a case over whether overgrown vegetation contributed to a road accident.’
Local Government Lawyer, 9th May 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A Welsh council has won an appeal over whether former teachers were entitled to be paid SEN (Special Educational Needs) allowance under their contracts. The Employment Tribunal had held that the conditions for entitlement were satisfied in each case, and accordingly, that Swansea City Council’s failure to pay SEN allowance was a breach of contract.’
Local Government Lawyer, 2nd May 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Ashfield District Council was entitled to evict a tenant even though the circumstances differed from those in a court order, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 30th April 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A Planning Court judge has ruled in favour of the London Borough of Islington in a long-running dispute over a major development which it has said will provide insufficient affordable homes.’
Local Government Lawyer, 30th April 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Family analysis: Maud Davis, partner at TV Edwards LLP, says the judgment in A local authority v A mother and others [2017] EWHC 3741 (Fam), [2017] All ER (D) 146 (Dec) makes it clear that the risk of significant harm has to be established on the basis of evidence, and not “assumptions or speculation on future behaviour”.’
Family Law, 26th April 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘The end of April 2018 was a big week for local government governance. In the same week that Ealing Council enacted a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to ban pro-life vigils from taking place outside a Marie Stopes clinic, the High Court handed down a landmark judgment dealing with PSPOs. The judgment is the first example of PSPOs being successfully challenged in the High Court.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 26th April 2018
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘A councillor is facing trial for destroying records about a system to catch fouling dog owners in what is believed to be the first case of its kind.’
Daily Telegraph, 25th April 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Nottingham City Council has lost a Court of Appeal battle over whether several hundred of its employees were entitled to incremental pay increases with effect from April 2011.’
Local Government Lawyer, 23rd April 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Gabrielle Jan Posner, Barrister and Recorder, Trinity Chambers Chelmsford, argues for a more involved role for IROs in care proceedings.’
Family Law Week, 20th April 2018
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Rotherham council has been ordered to apologise to a whistleblower who helped to expose the town’s grooming scandal after council officials raided her charity without proper explanation – years after she risked imprisonment by revealing how the council, police and social services turned a blind eye to the abuse of at least 1,400 children.’
The Guardian, 18th April 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has been hit with a £120,000 monetary penalty by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after the council unlawfully identified 943 people who owned vacant properties in the borough.’
Local Government Lawyer, 16th April 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A resident and dog walker has partially won a High Court challenge to a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) brought in by the London Borough of Richmond. However, the council said the two provisions that were quashed by the judge were only “minor prohibitions” and the bulk of the order remained intact.’
Local Government Lawyer, 16th April 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Northamptonshire county council is facing a series of legal challenges over plans to close 21 libraries, after a young resident applied for a judicial review of a decision campaigners say will have a “devastating impact” on families.’
The Guardian, 12th April 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Carrying out body piercings on someone under the permitted age is a strict liability offence, the Divisional Court has said in a case punctuated by an unusual interruption by the respondent.’
Local Government Lawyer, 10th April 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Campaigners said they were “completely elated” after a West London council voted to ban protesters from demonstrating outside an abortion clinic, and were hopeful this was “just the beginning”.’
Daily Telegraph, 10th April 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The term ‘isolated’ has its ordinary meaning in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and needs no over-interpretation, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 5th April 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A community housing association in Wales has been fined £30,000 after it failed to effectively manage its employees’ exposure to Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) over a prolonged period of time.’
Local Government Lawyer, April 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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