An attempt to limit the right of a council to sell allotments and move the allotment holders to new allotments some distance away failed in the court recently. The council concerned wished to sell the land for housing and to move allotment holders to other
Two social workers who were dismissed by the London Borough of Haringey in the wake of the ‘Baby P’ scandal have failed to convince the Court of Appeal that they were unfairly treated. Arguments that it was an affront to legal principle that they faced
A landowner who allowed travellers to use his farm to celebrate a religious festival in breach of a judge’s order has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for his contempt of court. Although Errol Clarke apologised for his conduct, the High Court ruled that his
A local authority tenant has fought off attempts to terminate her tenancy of a six-bedroom London home where her family has lived for more than 30 years. The London Borough of Brent’s plea that the property was larger than was reasonably required by the tenant
A group of waste recycling companies have failed to convince the High Court that a European Union directive requiring the separate collection of paper, metal, plastic and glass has been inaccurately transposed into United Kingdom (UK) regulations which leave detailed decisions on waste collection in
A do-it-yourself (DIY) builder has triumphed in his fight for a substantial VAT rebate on materials he employed in the construction of his new home. The first-tier tribunal accepted the taxpayer’s argument that payment of the tax refund was not precluded by a planning condition
A mobile phone company that objected to a change in the method employed by the Office of Communications (Ofcom) to control mobile termination rates (MTRs) – resulting in its revenue from that source being more than halved – has had its complaints of unfairness and
The High Court has urged a change in the law after rejecting a property owner’s plea that an adjudicator had no power to rule on his dispute with a building company on the basis that he occupied the relevant property as his residence and thus
In a decision of enormous significance to the NHS, the High Court has ruled that a decision to concentrate child heart surgery services on seven regional centres was fundamentally flawed. The court’s decision puts the whole future of paediatric heart surgery in Britain back up
In upholding a ruling which will require police forces across the country to pick up the enormous costs of match day policing around football grounds, the Court of Appeal has emphasised that it is for the police, not private citizens or organisations, to enforce law
