Giant leylandii in suburban front garden incense neighbours – The Guardian
“Plymouth residents have complained to the council about the 10-metre trees outside David Alvand’s home.”
The Guardian, 6th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Category: local government
Teen sues over playground accident blamed for personality disorder – Daily Telegraph
“A teenager is suing a council for £100,000 after claiming an accident in her school playground 11 years ago left her with a personality disorder which means she is unable to make friends.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th September 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Review of FA national football centre Burton homes plan – BBC News
“A claim for a judicial review has been lodged into a council’s decision to give planning consent for the National Football Centre in Staffordshire.”
BBC News, 2nd September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Bye-bye to old by-laws – BBC News
“Plans to make it easier for English local authorities to abolish outdated by-laws and create new ones are to be outlined by the government.”
BBC News, 31st August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Couple fined £2,000 for hedge infringement – The Independent
“A couple have been fined £2,000 for allowing their garden hedges to grow too tall.”
The Independent, 26th August 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Regina (B) v Islington London Borough Council – WLR Daily
Regina (B) v Islington London Borough Council [2010] WLR (D) 236
“The Education Act 1996 placed no obligation on a local authority to maintain a statement of special educational needs for a young person over the age of 19 or to fund him or her to continue in secondary education.”
WLR Daily, 24th August 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Government to introduce new powers over traveller sites – BBC News
“A number of changes to tackle illegal gypsy and traveller sites are to be introduced, the government has said.”
BBC News, 24th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Judge criticises council for trying to force contraception on woman – Daily Telegraph
“A judge has criticised a council for trying to have contraception forced upon a woman with a low IQ, warning that the move had ‘shades of social engineering’.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th August 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
What can councils use by-laws for? – BBC News
“David Cameron is backing an idea put forward by Greater Manchester councils to ban cheap booze using a by-law. But how ambitious can councils be when they are drawing up by-laws?”
BBC News, 12th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
R (PM) v Hertfordshire County Council – WLR Daily
R (PM) v Hertfordshire County Council [2010] EWHC 2056 (Admin); [2010] WLR (D) 229
“A local authority charged with obligations to children under ss 17 and 20 of the Children Act 1989 was not bound by a simple finding of fact by the First Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) as to the age of an applicant for support. Such a finding was not a judgment in rem nor otherwise binding in law on the local authority, or on other strangers to the asylum and immigration appeal.”
WLR Daily, 6th August 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Health & Safety Executive v Wolverhampton City Council and another – WLR Daily
“A material consideration for a local planning authority when deciding whether to revoke or modify the grant of planning permission under s 97 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 was the authority’s liability to pay compensation under s 107 of the Act.”
WLR Daily, 4th August 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Kent County Council (Filming on Highways) Act 2010
Kent County Council (Filming on Highways) Act 2010 published
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Local authorities threaten legal action over axed school buildings programme – The Guardian
“At least two councils are taking steps to sue the government in the high court over the cancellation of multi-million-pound contracts to build new schools, it emerged today.”
The Guardian, 5th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Sheffield City Council v Wall and others – WLR Daily
Sheffield City Council v Wall and others; [2010] EWCA Civ 922; [2010] WLR (D) 221
“The foster son of a late council tenant was not entitled to succeed to the tenancy under the Housing Act 1985.”
WLR Daily, 2nd August 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Stockton on Tees Borough Council v Aylott – WLR Daily
Stockton on Tees Borough Council v Aylott [2010] EWCA Civ 910; [2010] WLR (D) 216
“In determining pursuant to section 3A(1) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 whether, for a reason which related to the claimant’s disability, he had been treated less favourably than a person to whom that reason did not apply, the appropriate comparator was someone who had acted in the same way as the claimant but did not suffer from his disability, and not someone to whom the reason for the treatment complained of did not apply.”
WLR Daily, 30th July 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Family win school catchment spying case – The Guardian
“A family won a landmark ruling today when a council was found to have acted illegally in spying on them for nearly three weeks to discover whether they had lied about living in the catchment area of a top primary school.”
The Guardian, 2nd August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Lekpo-Bozua v Hackney London Borough Council (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government intervening) – WLR Daily
“An applicant for accommodation could establish a priority need under the Housing Act 1996 because a dependent child was residing with her, where the dependent child was an European Economic Area national from abroad, even though the child did not have a permanent right to reside but was subject to immigration control, but the housing authority’s duty was then the restricted duty provided for under s 193(7AA) of the 1996 Act as amended. Under either the amended or unamended provisions the duty would have been the full duty had the dependent child had a right of permanent residence in the United Kingdom. Moreover, a failure by the host member state to enforce the removal of the dependent child after three months did not graduate by waiver to her acquiring a permanent right to residence.”
WLR Daily, 28th July 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Hertfordshire County Council v Veolia Water Central Ltd – WLR Daily
Hertfordshire County Council v Veolia Water Central Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 887; [2010] WLR (D) 200
“In order to avoid absurdity, s 81 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 and regs 3 and 4 of the Street Works (Maintenance) Regulations 1992 had to be given a purposive interpretation, meaning that the power of a street authority to undertake emergency works under reg 4 was conditional upon an inspection having been undertaken under reg 3 only where appropriate.”
WLR Daily, 28th July 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Emails and phones snooped on by authorities every minute – Daily Telegraph
“Public authorities asked for confidential communications data on more than 525,000 occasions last year including a 13 per cent increase in requests by town halls.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th July 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Iraqi pupil to be thrown out of Britain over age dispute – The Independent
“An Iraqi refugee who is studying for his GCSEs has been told he will be made homeless and deported because social workers have decided that he is 20 years old.”
The Independent, 23rd July 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
