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Judge allows employee of unsuccessful bidder to be part of confidentiality ring in legal challenge over award of e-bike concession contract
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Judge allows employment tribunal appeal in case where nurse was fired for not working weekends
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Judge allows inter-country adoption to proceed despite failure to comply with pre-adoption requirements
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Judge allows local authority to withdraw care proceedings, says Human Rights Act claim made by parents must fall away
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Judge allows local plan challenge to proceed but on reduced grounds
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Judge allows reporting of case where DNA tests established that three abandoned babies were full siblings
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Judge allows urgent application by council for judicial review after it published incorrect versions of neighbourhood plans ahead of referendum
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Judge approves order to keep boy in residential accommodation at likely cost of £750k
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Judge approves placement in Scotland for 15-year-old from London, expresses concern at lack of availability in England and Wales
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Judge authorises deprivation of liberty of woman with anorexia at new placement but only while she resides there willingly
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Judge awards damages and costs after changes to council tax reduction scheme discriminated against self-employed blind man
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Judge backs continuation of ‘final’ injunction over protests at oil terminal after first annual review
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Judge blasts claimant lawyers for “appalling professional behaviour” in JR proceedings
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Judge calls for LGA and NHS urgently to devise mechanism for resolving disputes
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Judge cites special circumstances in allowing claimant to call expert witness in tender evaluation dispute
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