GCSE grading row: Result of court case due – BBC News
“Thousands of teenagers are awaiting a ruling from the High Court on Wednesday over the grading of GCSE English exams sat in June last year.”
BBC News, 13th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: judicial review
Foulser v Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs – WLR Daily
Foulser v Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs [2013] UKUT 038 (TCC); [2013] WLR (D) 51
“The First-tier Tribunal had jurisdiction to deal with an allegation that a fair hearing of a tax appeal before it had been made impossible, but any contention that a party had acted unlawfully in public law had to be put forward by way of an application for judicial review in the High Court or the Upper Tribunal. In a case where the FTT considered that a debarring order was justified and no lesser order would meet the justice of the case but yet, the facts of the case did not come within Rules 7 and 8 of the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Tax Chamber) Rules 2009, the FTT could produce the desired just result by using its power under Rule 5 to ‘regulate its procedure’, particularly to deal with the case fairly and justly.”
WLR Daily, 25th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
High Court legal bid to save Leeds child heart surgery – BBC News
“The High Court is due to hear a legal challenge over plans to end child heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary.”
BBC News, 11th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
No cash from the UK to avoid Indonesian firing squad – UK Human Rights Blog
“In this highly publicised case, the Administrative Court has come up with some firm criteria for the scope of the Convention’s protective reach for UK citizens abroad. The judgment is also something of a body blow for those who are looking to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms for a wider human rights umbrella.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 8th February 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Regina (Redcar and Cleveland Independent Providers Association and others) v Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council – WLR Daily
“A dispute between care providers and a local authority over the rate due for supporting the care of the elderly in care homes was amenable to judicial review.”
WLR Daily, 17th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (Ali and others) v Secretary of State for Justice – WLR Daily
Regina (Ali and others) v Secretary of State for Justice: [2013] EWHC 72 (Admin); [2013] WLR (D) 35
“A useful test to determine whether an individual, whose conviction had been quashed on the basis of new evidence, qualified for compensation under section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 on the ground of miscarriage of justice, was whether he had established, beyond reasonable doubt, that no reasonable jury (or magistrates) properly directed as to the law, could convict on the evidence now to be considered.”
WLR Daily, 25th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Bali drugs: UK government accused of breaching Lindsay Sandiford’s rights – The Guardian
“The government’s failure to provide an ‘adequate’ lawyer to represent a British woman sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug smuggling is a breach of her rights, the high court has been told.”
The Guardian, 31st January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Prisoners’ rights: no tea bags please! – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
“Was challenging the decision for prisoners having the right to vote a step too far?”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 31st January 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
Lawyers on the line: high-speed rail plan faces 10-year delay – The Independent
“Britain’s HS2 high-speed rail line could be delayed for a decade as a unified coalition of Conservative councils, MPs and environmental groups threaten disruptive legal action.”
The Independent, 28th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Barnet’s ‘easyCouncil’ faces judicial review over outsourcing – The Guardian
“The ‘easyCouncil’ model of no-frills local services is set to go on trial this spring after the High Court announced it will review a £320m services contract due to be outsourced by the Conservative-controlled London Borough of Barnet.”
The Guardian, 22nd January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (Crown Prosecution Service) v Bolton Crown Court – WLR Daily
Regina (Crown Prosecution Service) v Bolton Crown Court [2012] EWHC 3570 (Admin); [2013] WLR (D) 13
“The Crown Court had no power under regulation 3 of the Costs in Criminal Cases Regulations 1986, made under section 19(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, to make a costs order against a party to criminal proceedings in favour of another party’s counsel.”
WLR Daily, January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Media organisations question Government’s legal basis for copyright reforms – OUT-LAW.com
“A number of major media organisations have threatened to launch a legal challenge to proposed new laws affecting the UK’s copyright framework.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th January 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
High Court refuses to condemn US drone strikes – UK Human Rights Blog
“In this unsuccessful application for permission to apply for judicial review, the Claimant sought to challenge the Defendant’s reported policy of permitting GCHQ employees to pass intelligence to the US for the purposes of drone strikes in Pakistan. The Claimant’s father was killed during such an attack in March 2011.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 9th January 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Police chief in high court battle to block successor – The Guardian
“A legal attempt by a chief constable to block the recruitment of his successor has been thrown out by the high court in London.”
The Guardian, 8th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (Hodkin and another) v Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages – WLR Daily
“A Scientologist chapel was not a place of meeting for religious worship for the purposes of section 2 of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855.”
WLR Daily, 19th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (Essa) v Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) and another – WLR Daily
“When considering whether the Secretary of State’s decision to deport an EU national convicted of a serious crime who had resided in the United Kingdom for ten years was proportionate the First-tier Tribunal should consider both the domestic and the European dimension.”
WLR Daily, 21st December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Bang to human rights – The Lawyer
“On the one hand the former Lord Chancellor Ken Clarke declared London’s courts to be among the best of British exports, while on the other the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) tore up the legal aid budget. Then there was the proposed crackdown on judicial reviews, while the personal injury sector has seen its business model declared dead, with no detail on an alternative forthcoming.”
The Lawyer, 7th January 2013
Source: www.thelawyer.com
British Humanist Association and another v Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council (Secretary of State for Education intervening) – WLR Daily
“The obligation on a local authority to invite proposals to establish academies under section 6A of the Education Act 2006, as amended, was triggered if a local authority thought there was a need to establish a new school in their area. It was implicit in the scheme of Part 2 of the 2006 Act that there was a distinction between the concept of a “need”, which imported a sense of compelling requirement to establish a new school under section 6A, and a more general assessment by a local authority whether it might be beneficial for a new school to be established.”
WLR Daily, 14th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
What Barnet’s judicial review tells us about the future of outsourcing – The Guardian
“Legal process will provide a chance for the courts to consider to what extent councils should consult with constituents.”
The Guardian, 19th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Hillsborough inquest verdicts set to be quashed – The Guardian
“The high court is being asked to quash the original accidental death inquest verdicts returned after 96 Liverpool football fans died in the crush at Hillsborough 23 years ago.”
The Guardian, 19th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
