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The Secretary of State for Education acted unlawfully in failing to consult bodies representing children in care, including the Children’s Commissioner for England, when he introduced the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 in response to the outbreak of…
In a rolled up hearing for permission to apply for judicial review (JR) and the substantive merits, the parents of Harry Dunn challenged a determination that Mrs S enjoyed diplomatic immunity: The Queen (on the Application of Charlotte Charles and…
A majority in the Supreme Court held today that section 32(1)(c) Limitation Act 1980 applied to claims for the restitution of money paid under a mistake of law. Time began to run when the claimant discovered, or could with reasonable…
London Underground Limited (LUL) successfully applied to the High Court for a General Civil Restraint Order against a former employee who had made multiple totally without merit (TWM) Tribunal claims against it: London Underground Limited v Roger Mighton [2020] EWHC…
A Deputy High Court judge seriously undervalued the force of a subject to contract label on the legal effect of negotiations. So held a unanimous Court of Appeal today in Joanne Properties Limited v (1) Moneything Capital Limited and (2)…
Today the High Court substituted an order for erasure for an order of suspension imposed upon a doctor by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPT). Mrs Justice Farbey sitting in the Administrative Court allowed an appeal by the Professional Standards Authority…
The extradition to Germany of a 36-year-old Appellant was today set aside by the Administrative Court on all grounds pleaded: Daniela Antochi v Richterin AM Amstegericht of the Amstgericht Munchen (Munich), Germany [2020] EWHC 3092 (Admin) The order had been…
Findings of the General Court of the European Union were not binding in domestic proceedings under the EU principle of res judicata. The General Court’s findings were not definitive, and may never become definitive, because they may be reversed or…
By a 3-2 majority the Supreme Court today dismissed an appeal by the deceased’s brother holding that the standard of proof for all short form conclusions at inquests was the balance of probabilities: R (on the application of Maughan) (Appellant)…
Section 84 of the Law of Property Act 1925 confers upon the Upper Tribunal (UT) a power, in specified circumstances, to discharge or modify restrictive covenants affecting land. For the first time the highest UK Court was required to decide…