A man has been found guilty of defrauding Leeds City Council out of more than £710,000 which was meant to support small businesses during the Coronavirus pandemic.

A group campaigning to stop two council-run dementia care homes being transferred to the private sector have threatened legal action against Kirklees Council, accusing the authority of failing to follow a “recognised consultation".

The High Court has dismissed a council’s application for judicial review against the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) over a report that upheld a complaint of maladministration against the local authority in a nursery school fees case.

A council has made a referral to the police amid concerns that objections to a planning application for a new sports facility may not have been made by the person whose name was registered to the objection.

Cardiff Capital Region has conceded liability, causation and sufficiently serious breach in a procurement challenge to the award of a £40 million contract for the demolition of Aberthaw Power Station.

City of York Council has called on tenants to report repairs to their landlord first, after a judge at York County Court last month ordered an unsuccessful disrepair claimant to pay almost £8,000 in costs.

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has sent a pre-action protocol letter to Suffolk County Council and a letter to the Ministry of Defence, highlighting concerns over the potential stationing of nuclear weapons at an RAF base in Lakenheath.

North Yorkshire Council has issued a pre-action protocol letter over the Government's decision to rescind the rural services delivery grant worth millions, a move the unitary authority had previously dubbed "Rayner's rural robbery".

Cornerstone Barristers has appointed Nadia Biles Davies as its new Chief Executive Officer.

A landfill operator who sought a judicial review against the Environment Agency's decision to issue a closure notice for the site has had their application refused by the High Court.

The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal over whether a local authority can authorise the deprivation of liberty of a 14-year-old boy in exercise of its parental responsibility under a care order.

The Home Office has lost a case about the allocation of bail accommodation for a foreign national offender and has been ordered by the High Court to make various changes to this system as well as pay 85% of claimant BLZ’s costs.

The three-year time limit for victims of child sexual abuse on turning 18 to bring personal injury claims is to be removed, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed.

Devon County Council was not required to take into account various statutory duties under the Care Act and other statutory provisions when it decided to close a non-statutory service, the High Court has found.

A County Court judge has confessed to both “significant” and “considerable” hesitation in deciding a case involving whether a person can be deemed intentionally homeless when they have obtained a tenancy following misrepresentations to a local housing authority, which then evicts them as a result.

The Court of Appeal will this week (6 February) hear on an urgent basis an appeal against a High Court judge’s rejection of a judicial review claim over the decision by a school governing body's disciplinary panel not to reinstate a teenage boy to his school following a permanent exclusion.

A judge has refused an application by a local authority for a declaration from the High Court that it is lawful and in the best interests of a 15-year-old boy with "profound enduring disabilities", who is the subject of a care order, to be deprived of his liberty.

The Court of Appeal will next week hear an appeal over a High Court ruling that a local authority, which holds ‘corporate’ parental responsibility for a child under the age of 16, has the power to consent to a deprivation of his liberty.

A High Court judge has made a care order in relation to a four-year-old girl (F), finding that her best interests will be met by an adoptive placement outside her family, while criticising the “unconscionable delay” in the case, which took almost 30 months to reach a conclusion.

Government plans to change the judicial review process for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) could risk "sidelining public accountability, diluting the rule of law and causing practical issues in the courts", a legal reform group has warned.

A group of local care homes has won an irrationality case in the High Court against Stoke-on-Trent City Council over the local authority’s decision to pay only a minimal uplift in fees for home residents.

The High Court has quashed an assessment made by Coventry City Council in a 'no recourse to public funds' case and ordered the authority to re-take the decision taking into account why the children concerned were held not have any unmet welfare needs given the updated evidence involved.

The Family Justice Council has today (30 January) published guidance for practitioners on neurodiversity in the family justice system.

Law reform charity JUSTICE has proposed the first rights-based framework to guide AI use across the UK justice system in a report that has urged the deployment of the technology be guided by a “clear purpose and responsibility”.

An electricity supplier has been refused permission to take Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council to judicial review despite the council’s failure to publish a local press notice concerning a planning application.

The Supreme Court has rejected a father’s application for a writ of habeas corpus in respect of his children, who are being raised in a local authority’s care.

The Welsh Government has applied to the Supreme Court to appeal a Court of Appeal decision that found Wrexham Borough Council did not have to adopt its local development plan (LDP) despite a High Court judge previously saying otherwise.

The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (NFJO) has highlighted the “important” role of advocates and intermediaries in enabling parents with learning disabilities to engage fully in court proceedings, after warning that family justice and social care systems are paying “insufficient attention” to ensuring that their rights under disability, equality and human rights legislation are upheld.

The London Borough of Lambeth is facing a judicial review challenge from a private resident of a housing estate who is threatened with eviction amid claims the council breached the Localism Act 2011 and the Housing Act 1985.