G (By his litigation friend) v St Gregory’s Catholic Science College Governors [2011] EWHC 1452 (Admin) (Collins J): The school’s refusal to allow an exception to its uniform policy so that a pupil can wear his hair in cornrows on the basis of a long-standing family tradition was held to amount to indirect racial discrimination […]
R (Nassery) v Brent LBC [2011] EWCA Civ 539 (Ward, Arden, Moore-Bick LJJ): the council had reached a rational conclusion that, whilst the claimant might require care and attention in the future on account of a deterioration in his fragile mental health, he did not have any current need for care and attention, for example […]
Case Law The Supreme Court has handed down its judgment in R (Cart) v The Upper Tribunal and ors (Public Law Project and JUSTICE intervening) [2011] UKSC 28 (click here for transcript). The Court unanimously decided that permission for judicial review of the Upper Tribunal should only be granted where the criteria for a second-tier […]
Orlic v Croatia [2011] ECHR 974. Mr Orlic had rented a flat from the Croatian government and occupied it with his family. In 2000 a domestic court found that the tenancy had been wrongly granted to him, he had no right to remain, and a possession order was made. In 2004 he was evicted. He […]
London Borough of Hillingdon v Steven Neary (by his litigation friend the Official Solicitor), Mark Neary and the Equality and Human Rights Commission[2011] EWHC 1377 (COP) (Peter Jackson J): Steven Neary is a 21 year-old man who has childhood autism and a severe learning disability. He lived with his father, Mark Neary, and received a […]
On the 16th May 2011, the Department of Health published Statement of Government Policy on Adult Safeguarding. For the avoidance of any doubt, it is made clear that No secrets: guidance on developing and implementing multi-agency policies and procedures to protect vulnerable adults from abusewill remain as statutory guidance “until at least 2013”. Meanwhile, however, […]
R (Nassery) v Brent LBC [2011] EWCA Civ 539 (Ward, Arden, Moore-Bick LJJ): the council had reached a rational conclusion that, whilst the claimant might require care and attention in the future on account of a deterioration in his fragile mental health, he did not have any current need for care and attention, for example […]
R (O) v Hammersmith & Fulham LBC [2011] EWHC 679 (Admin)(Blair J): although the local authority’s decision-making process had been lawful in the main, its conclusion, despite changed circumstances, that O should not be placed at a residential school with a 24-hour/52-week curriculum had been irrational and required to be reconsidered. Click here for the […]
