‘A landlord who made almost £27,000 a year by cramming 12 tenants into a property meant for five – with some sleeping in storerooms – has been fined £30,000 after pleading guilty to overcrowding.’
The Guardian, 4th November 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Six police and crime commissioners have threatened the Home Office with legal action over changes to the way police forces in England and Wales are funded.’
BBC News, 3rd November 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A Family Court judge has ordered a local authority to pay £20,000 in damages each to a mother and her seven-year-old daughter for breaches under the Human Rights Act.’
Local Government Lawyer, 29th October 2015
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The High Court has given a reminder of the important qualification to the general principle that a lawyer, or licensed conveyancer, is not obliged to undertake investigations that are not expressly or impliedly requested by the client. The principle is subject to the qualification that: if in fact a solicitor acquires information that may be of importance to a client; then it is the duty of the solicitor to bring that information to the attention of the client. It is the client who decides whether the information is important; the lawyer should not presume to make that decision. Failing to consider information, to advise the client or even pass on such information to the client can be costly. It is safer to communicate too much rather than too little.’
36 Bedford Row Property Blog, 27th October 2015
Source: www.36property.co.uk
‘A businessman has failed in a high court bid to regain ownership of a derelict Colwyn Bay pier.’
BBC News, 27th October 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Campaigners in one of the UK’s key fracking battlegrounds have been given the green light to bring a judicial review of Lancashire county council’s decision to allow seismic monitoring equipment at proposed drilling sites.’
The Guardian, 23rd October 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Lawyers representing families in the baby ashes scandal have said they are to take legal action against Shropshire Council.’
BBC News, 26th October 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Lincolnshire County Council has said it will consult its lawyers about the recovery of its costs after a High Court judge set out why in July she rejected a legal challenge to the authority’s plans for its libraries services.’
Local Government Lawyer, 22nd October 2015
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Perceptions that judicial review is an ineffective drain on the public purse and frequently abused by claimants are ‘at best misleading and at worst false’, according to a legal charity’s study of 502 cases.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 19th October 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘In 2001, a small scale form of discretionary support was introduced to assist those on housing benefit who were unable to afford their rent: discretionary housing payments (DHPs). The numbers of awards were modest, reaching approximately 2,000 in 2002/3, and representing just £21million of expenditure per annum as recently as 2008/9 (source). This same scheme – administered by Local Authorities – now makes more than 390,000 awards per annum and the July budget of 2015 has allocated £800million for their use across the course of this Parliament.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 21st October 2015
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘A High Court judge has quashed the grant of outline planning permission for a residential development in Wiltshire over the appearance of bias.’
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Local Government Lawyer, 13th October 2015
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘I’ve heard about a few costs decisions by trial judges recently which might be considered, to put it politely, interesting, or brave, in the Yes Minister sense. So it was with some interest that I read the Court of Appeal decision in Begum v Birmingham City Council [2015] EWCA Civ 386.’
Nearly Legal, 8th October 2015
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Lawyers and justice campaigners have raised fresh concerns about the government’s court closure programme, alleging that the proposals are based on out-of-date travel times and other dubious data.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 12th October 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘It is difficult to imagine what could possibly have happened yesterday to cause the CJEU’s judgment in Case C-71/14 East Sussex County Council v Information Commissioner (judgment of 6 October 2015) to slip beneath the waves, but for those who spent the day reading, talking and thinking about Safe Harbo(u)rs (presumably something to do with shipping?) East Sussex represents a comforting return to normality, if not mundanity, where the CJEU is asked straightforward questions and it doesn’t quite answer them.’
Panopticon, 7th October 2015
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
‘At a Westminster Briefing event entitled ‘Planning Policy under the new Government’ on 29th September, William Upton outlined the planning reforms currently underway and the direction of the new government’s planning policy.’
Six Pump Court, 6th October 2015
Source: www.www.6pumpcourt.co.uk
‘The government is to introduce new rules to stop “politically-motivated” boycotts by local councils.’
BBC News, 3rd October 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Councils and local authorities are to be blocked from boycotting Israeli products or pursuing other foreign policy goals that conflict with the government.’
The Guardian, 3rd October 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A London borough has successfully applied to the High Court to have lifted an automatic suspension under procurement regulations of the award of a contract for a road traffic CCTV system.’
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Local Government Lawyer, 30th September 2015
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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