‘Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, criticises a legal bid by distant relatives of King Richard III, whose remains were found buried under a council car park in Leicester.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th June 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina (Grace) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] WLR (D) 249
‘The proper test to be applied by the Administrative Court under CPR r 54.12(7) when considering certifying an application for permission to proceed with judicial review as “totally without merit” was whether the claim was bound to fail. There was no requirement that the claim be shown to be abusive or vexatious.’
WLR Daily, 9th June 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Officers from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are entitled to detain goods pending further investigation where they have “reasonable grounds to suspect” that excise duties have not been paid, the Supreme Court has confirmed.’
OUT-LAW.com, 12th June 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The Strasbourg Court has ruled that local authorities are within their margin of discretion to balance individuals’ personal interests against the more general interest of the competent public authority in carrying out their social responsibility of provision of care to the community at large.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th June 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The statutory authority deriving from paragraph 2(1) and (3) of Schedule 3 to the Immigration Act 1971 for detention pending removal of a person against whom a deportation order had been made in pursuance of a recommendation by a court was not unlimited and did not continue when there was no longer any prospect of deportation within a reasonable time.’
WLR Daily, 23rd May 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A woman who fought to stay in the UK over fears her daughters could face female genital mutilation in Nigeria has been deported, her lawyer has said.’
BBC News, 4th June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A High Court judge in the new Planning Court has rejected an application for a judicial review made by a development partner of Tesco, certifying that the claim was “totally without merit”.’
Local Government Lawyer, 27th May 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Some 527 years after his death, Richard III’s skeleton was found beneath a car park in Leicester. The Plantagenet Alliance, a campaigning organisation representing a group of collateral descendants, sought judicial review of the decision taken by the Secretary of State to exhume and re-inter the monarch in Leicester Cathedral without consulting them and a wide audience.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th May 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The facts of this application for judicial review were set out in David Hart QC’s post on the original permission hearing. To recap briefly, the Plantagenet Alliance, a campaigning organisation representing a group of collateral descendants of Richard III were given the go ahead to seek judicial review of the decision taken by the respondents – the Secretary of State, Leicester Council and Leicester University, regarding his re-interment at Leicester Cathedral without consulting them. More specifically, the claimant’s main case was that there was an obligation, principally on the part of the Ministry of Justice, to revisit or reconsider the licence once the remains had been conclusively identified as those of Richard III.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd May 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Campaigners are seeking permission for a judicial review of the government’s crackdown on parents taking their children out of school during term time.’
The Guardian, 25th May 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Distant relatives of King Richard III have lost their High Court battle over where his remains should be reburied.’
BBC News, 23rd May 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The fate of Richard III’s bones could become clearer with the result of a legal challenge due to be given later.’
BBC News, 23rd May 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A controversial cull of thousands of gulls in the UK will go ahead after a legal challenge by conservationists failed.’
The Guardian, 21st May 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Following the Supreme Court’s lengthy, slightly unexpected, and difficult to grasp judgment in Kennedy v Charity Commission [2014] UKSC 20 (on which I have been quiet because of my involvement, but see Tom Cross’s blogpost here) there has been room for quite a large amount of debate as to how far it goes. Was the majority only suggesting access to the Charity Commission’s information under the common law principle of open justice applied because of the particular statutory regime and/or the nature of the statutory inquiry involved? Or was the principle rather more wide-ranging?’
Panopticon, 20th May 2014
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
‘It is worth considering two important legal judgments that the ten-year battle to extradite him involved.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 20th May 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has reversed the robustly expressed view of Haddon-Cave J (see my post here) that the grant of planning permission to a proposed “exclusive” golf club in Surrey should be quashed.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th May 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.co.uk
‘A judicial review has been granted challenging the prosecution service’s decision to allow the son of Bahrain’s ruler immunity in the UK over torture allegations.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 14th May 2014
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The tide of interest (among those who care about these things) in the idea of a written, codified constitution for the United Kingdom rises and falls. At the moment the tide is quite high, but certainly not high enough to flow into the estuaries of government policy making.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 14th May 2014
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
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