“A millionaire businessman today won permission for a high court challenge over the government’s refusal to hold a referendum on the EU reform treaty.”
The Guardian, 2nd May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A legal bid to challenge the power of the police to use surveillance against peaceful protesters has been launched at the High Court.”
BBC News, 1st May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Northern Rock’s small shareholders will take High Court action against the Treasury within weeks after the Government’s lawyers rejected their plea for compensation.”
The Times, 24th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“One of Britain’s richest men has hired Cherie Blair’s law firm to advise him on a £750,000 High Court battle that could force Gordon Brown to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A legal challenge to the government’s decision not to back-date a police pay rise is to begin at the High Court.”
BBC News, 15th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The findings of a judicial review into the dropping of a corruption inquiry into BAE Systems’ Saudi arms deals will be revealed on Thursday.”
BBC News, 9th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ministers are today accused of breaking a legally-binding promise to help pensioners pay for soaring fuel bills.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Mohamed Al Fayed will today seek permission for a judicial review to force Prince Philip to give evidence into the deaths of his son, Dodi, and of Diana, Princess of Wales.”
The Guardian, 18th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Does the growing power and readiness of judges to question government decisions threaten to unbalance our democracy?”
BBC Law in Action, 11th March 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina (AM) (Cameroon) v Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (No 2)
Court of Appeal
“Where a listing mistake meant a statutory review of an immigration appeal went ahead, resulting in a final determination, before a judicial review application had been heard, the judicial review should be heard and the final determination set aside; otherwise the applicant would suffer serious injustice for which there was no other remedy.”
The Times, 7th March 2008
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“Where a statutory review of an immigration appeal mistakenly went ahead before a judicial review application establishing a good arguable case had been heard resulting in a final determination, that determination should be set aside and the judicial review proceed.”
WLR Daily, 22nd February 2008
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R (Raissi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 72; [2008] WLR (D) 49
“The court was entitled to decide the meaning of a ministerial policy introducing an ex gratia compensation scheme. The purpose of the policy in question was to compensate those who had spent a period in custody resulting from a serious default on the part of a police officer or some other public authority, such as the Crown Prosecution Service. It was not limited to a period in custody following a wrongful conviction or charge, but applied to a person detained for the purpose of extradition proceedings where there had been serious default by the CPS or the police.”
WLR Daily, 18th February 2008
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“The BBC was a public authority to a limited extent in respect of information not held for the purpose of journalism and not otherwise; and that the information tribunal had no jurisdiction to consider a letter which on its face had not been a decision letter of the Information Commissioner.”
WLR Daily, 28th January 2008
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“Police officers have launched a courtroom bid to overturn Jacqui Smith’s decision to ignore an independent panel and cap this year’s pay award at 1.9 per cent.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd January 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A judicial review will be conducted at the High Court into the use of physical restraint to control children detained in secure training centres.”
BBC News, 4th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina (D) v Bromley London Borough Council and Another
Court of Appeal
“It was contrary to natural justice for an education appeals panel to fail to provide an excluded pupil with the opportunity to comment on exceptional circumstances or other reasons which led the panel to refuse to direct his reinstatement at the school from which he had been permanently excluded.”
The Times, 20th November 2007
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Davey v Aylesbury Vale District Council [2007] EWCA Civ 1166
“The Court of Appeal gave guidance as to the recoverability of pre-permission costs by a successful defendant following dismissal of the substantive judicial review claim.”
WLR Daily, 16th November 2007
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R (Faithfull) v Crown Court at Ipswich [2007] EWHC 2229 (Admin)
“Confiscation and compensation orders made in criminal proceedings in the Crown Court were not amenable to judicial review and nothing in the Human Rights Act 1998 required that they should be.”
WLR Daily, 26th October 2007
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“The High Court has the power to judicially review decisions in the Crown Court, except in ‘matters relating to trial on indictment’ (s 29(3) Supreme Court Act 1981). The rationale for the exclusion is that judicial review should not be used as a means of delaying trials and clogging up the criminal justice process.”
Law Commission, 30th October 2007
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
Relationship too close for independence of board
Queen’s Bench Divisional Court
“The Parole Board’s relationship with central government was such that it did not have sufficient independence to carry out its role of reviewing the continued detention of prisoners lawfully, as required by common law and article 5.4 of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The Times, 18th October 2007
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