The claimant applied for judicial review of a decision of the defendant local authority to grant a 30-year planning permission for a solar photovoltaic farm. The site was 670m from a conservation area and was also one kilometre from a Grade I listed building and a Grade II* registered park and garden containing a Grade … Continue reading R (on the application of KATHARINE BUTLER) (Claimant) v EAST DORSET DISTRICT COUNCIL (Defendant) & GOOD ENERGY MAPPERTON FARM SOLAR PARK (007) LTD (Interested Party) (2016)
Category: Cases
(1) ANTHONY GRINDLEY (2) CAROL GRINDLEY (3) ANTHONY LYNCH (4) STEVEN WOOD v REVENUE & CUSTOMS COMMISSIONERS (2016)
Taxpayers' appeals against closure notices were struck out for failure to comply in time with a direction requiring them to serve replies setting out further and better particulars of their cases. The non-compliance was serious and it was clear that the taxpayers did not truly intend to take the appeals to a hearing. That they … Continue reading (1) ANTHONY GRINDLEY (2) CAROL GRINDLEY (3) ANTHONY LYNCH (4) STEVEN WOOD v REVENUE & CUSTOMS COMMISSIONERS (2016)
R (on the application of RAYMOND COOPER) (Claimant) v ASHFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL (Defendant) & MICHAEL MAY (Interested Party) (2016)
The claimant applied for judicial review of a decision of the defendant local authority to grant planning permission to the interested party landowner for four gypsy pitches, associated development and a goat barn. The site was on a private road in open countryside which served some businesses, 13 dwellings and some authorised gypsy and traveller … Continue reading R (on the application of RAYMOND COOPER) (Claimant) v ASHFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL (Defendant) & MICHAEL MAY (Interested Party) (2016)
CYPRUS POPULAR BANK PUBLIC CO LTD v (1) ANDREAS VGENOPOULOS AND ORS (2016)
The court had to determine issues on the meaning and enforceability of a worldwide freezing injunction which the claimant bank had obtained in proceedings against the defendants in Cyprus. The bank had applied to have the freezing injunction registered as a judgment of the instant court, pursuant to Regulation 44/2001 art.38. The court made … Continue reading CYPRUS POPULAR BANK PUBLIC CO LTD v (1) ANDREAS VGENOPOULOS AND ORS (2016)
R (on the application of O) (Claimant) v PETERBOROUGH CITY COUNCIL (Defendant) & CAMBRIDGESHIRE & PETERBOROUGH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (Interested party) (2016)
The claimant applied for judicial review of the defendant local authority's decision to make her the subject of a child protection plan (CPP). The claimant was autistic and had started to refuse to eat or drink when she was six years old. A nasogastric tube was used to feed her. Her paediatrician, employed by … Continue reading R (on the application of O) (Claimant) v PETERBOROUGH CITY COUNCIL (Defendant) & CAMBRIDGESHIRE & PETERBOROUGH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (Interested party) (2016)
R (on the application of FRIENDS OF FINSBURY PARK) (Claimant) v HARINGEY LONDON BOROUGH COUNCIL (Defendant) & (1) FESTIVAL REPUBLIC LTD (2) LIVE NATION (MUSIC) LTD (Interested Parties) (2016)
The claimant charity applied for judicial review of the defendant local authority's decision to grant the first interested party a premises licence to hold a music festival in part of Finsbury Park, a large London park. The claimant submitted that: (1) the local authority's decision to close part of the park for the festival was … Continue reading R (on the application of FRIENDS OF FINSBURY PARK) (Claimant) v HARINGEY LONDON BOROUGH COUNCIL (Defendant) & (1) FESTIVAL REPUBLIC LTD (2) LIVE NATION (MUSIC) LTD (Interested Parties) (2016)
GURTEJ PAWAR v JSD HAULAGE LTD (2016)
The appellant HGV driver appealed against an award of damages made following a personal injury claim brought against his former employers. The claim arose out of an accident at work. The appellant had been driving a tipper lorry when the hydraulic ramp collapsed. The resulting impact forced him upwards at speed and his head collided … Continue reading GURTEJ PAWAR v JSD HAULAGE LTD (2016)
DANNY MAMAN (T/A FINE WATCHES & JEWELLERY) v CERTAIN LLOYD’S UNDERWRITERS (2016)
The defendant underwriters applied to set aside an order permitting the claimant to amend and re-issue his claim form so as to strike out the first and second defendants and re-name the third defendants. The claimant, a jeweller, claimed to have lost valuable items in a theft which occurred on 17 February 2009 and … Continue reading DANNY MAMAN (T/A FINE WATCHES & JEWELLERY) v CERTAIN LLOYD’S UNDERWRITERS (2016)
BROWN & ANOR (JOINT ADMINISTRATORS OF LOANWELL LTD) v STONEGALE LTD (2016)
A company (C1) and its director (J) appealed against a decision ([2015] CSIH 12, 2015 S.C.L.R. 619) that the dispositions of four properties to them amounted to "gratuitous alienations" for the purposes of the Insolvency Act 1986 s.242. The dispositions had been made by a group of three companies (G) controlled by J's father (S). … Continue reading BROWN & ANOR (JOINT ADMINISTRATORS OF LOANWELL LTD) v STONEGALE LTD (2016)
R (on the application of SAVE BRITAIN’S HERITAGE) v (1) LIVERPOOL CITY COUNCIL (2016)
The Court of Appeal considered the effect of relevant planning policy and guidance in relation to an appeal against the grant of planning permission for the development of properties within the buffer zone of the Liverpool World Heritage Site. Judgment reserved.
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