Re D (a child)(no 2)(2015) [2015] EWFC 2: the President of the Family Division expressed concern over the delay in obtaining public funding for parents with learning difficulties contesting a local authority’s placement order application; because of the potential breach of article 6 ECHR. Click here for the judgment. R (BG) v Chief Constable of […]
News GP poll shows increase in patients needing advice An opinion poll of GPs published on 3 December 2014 by the Legal Action Group found that a majority of doctors believed that the number of their patients who would have benefited from legal or specialist advice has increased in the past year: 67% of GPs […]
R (ER) v Commissioner for Local Administration (Local Government Ombudsman) and London Borough of Hillingdon [2014] EWCA Civ 1407 (LLJ Moore-Bick, Aikens, Bean): The Local Government Ombudsman had no jurisdiction to investigate the consequences of a local authority's decision if the investigation itself was excluded by the Local Goverment Act 1974 section 26(6). The judicial […]
The Public Guardian v CT (1) and EY (2) [2014] EWCOP 51 (Senior Judge Lush): The court declined to order that the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) should pay the costs of an application brought by it under its safeguarding functions. CT suffered a stroke, following which the execution by him of a power […]
R (on the application of MD) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWHC 2249 (Admin) (Rhodri Price Lewis QC): On allowing the claim the court held that the detention by the Home Secretary of State of a foreign national suffering from a mental illness, was unlawful both at common law and under […]
R (Robson) v Salfrod CC [2015] EWCA Civ 6: it was lawful to cease using local authority employees to provide a transport service so that disabled adults could attend day centres and to make alternative arrangements (including, for example, a ‘ring and ride’ service). The consultation exercise on transport options had been adequate, notwithstanding that […]
R (Jakimaviciute) v Hammersmith & Fulham LBC [2014] EWCA Civ 1438 (Richards, Tomlinson and Bean LJJ): whether power to exclude classes from an allocation scheme subject to the duty to give reasonable preference. Pursuant to the changes to the Housing Act 1996, Part 6, made by the Localism Act 2011, Hammersmith and Fulham LBC adopted […]
R (GE) (Eritrea) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Bedford Borough Council [2014] EWCA Civ 1490 (Davis, Clarke and Rix LLJs): The Court of Appeal overturned a decision of the lower court (Mr. Ockelton) that where an age disputed child had never been in the care of the local authority, there was […]
