Stephen Crispin and Matthew Brookes-Baker analyse the outcome of a fact-finding hearing in care proceedings concerning allegations that one or other of the parents had deliberately inflicted injury to a non-mobile infant. Read more
Manchester City Council should have made greater efforts to ensure that an improvement notice and subsequent penalty demand reached a landlord, the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) has said, upholding an appeal against a decision of the First-Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber).
There is “legitimate public concern” as to the accommodation where vulnerable young people are being placed, the President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has warned MPs.
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is set to ask permission from the Secretary of State for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to take legal action against a landfill operator over odours emanating from the site.
A Court of Protection judge has ordered a mother to leave the home owned by her disabled adult son, finding it was not in his best interests for her to live in the same house “at the present time”.
The High Court is this week (24-25 April) hearing a school’s legal challenge over an inspection report issued by Ofsted following two separate inspections.
A High Court judge has allowed a local authority’s application for leave to invoke the inherent jurisdiction in relation to the withdrawal of medical treatment and the provision of end of life care for a young child.
Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon) examines an important, but curious, case about the limits of the duties imposed by Article 2 ECHR on public bodies to seek to secure the life of individuals in the community.
The Court of Appeal recently allowed an appeal by the mother against a finding that injuries to a child were caused by one of six relatives who were present, rather than accident. Sara Chalk analyses the judgment.
A borough council was forced to apply to the High Court for judicial review after discovering that the versions of two proposed neighbourhood plans it published ahead of referendums were materially incorrect, it has emerged.
Fifty victims of a fire in south-west London in 2019 have this month issued a High Court claim against Metropolitan Thames Valley (MTVH) housing association and house builder St James.
A rabbi who mostly lived away from his council flat was still entitled to buy it from the London Borough of Hackney since the council could not establish that his main place of residence was elsewhere.
The Court of Protection has allowed an unnamed local authority’s appeal against a court decision that a 20-year-old man, ZZ, has capacity to make decisions about residence, engage in sexual relations and marriage.
The High Court has dismissed a secondary school pupil’s challenge over the lawfulness of a policy at her London school to prohibit prayer rituals for all of its pupils.
A circuit judge sitting in the Family Court has expressed his “obvious regret” that funding could not be secured for the Cardiff and Vale Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) Pilot to be extended, noting the “clear implications” for families and professionals involved in cases still before the court.
The Court of Appeal have allowed a challenge by the parents of a young girl to a finding made in care proceedings that, when she was a small baby, she suffered an abusive head injury inflicted by one or other of the parents.
The Supreme Court is this week hearing an appeal over the discharge of reporting restriction orders (RROs) protecting the identity of medical professionals involved in the care of patients in respect of whom an application to withdraw treatment had been made.
The High Court has agreed to hear a judicial review claim challenging guidance from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities that puts limitations on how councils should set local energy efficiency standards for housing that go beyond national regulations.
Judges sitting at the Central Family Court will wear robes during proceedings from this week (15 April 2024), in a pilot intended to explore the impact of increased formality in family courts.
A large-scale landlord in Kent, Fergus Wilson, has been found in contempt of court after breaching a final injunction order that sought to stop him from harassing staff at Ashford Borough Council.
Islington Council has been ordered to pay costs after the dismissal of possession proceedings it brought against a tenant that the council did not consider was in a homosexual relationship with the former tenant, who had passed away.
The High Court has ruled that a family court judge was in a “much better position” than the Police to determine whether unsupervised contact with a child could be appropriately managed.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) did not act improperly when it exclude a non-compliant bid from a tender process, the Technology and Construction Court has found.
A woman with a heightened sensitivity or hypersensitivity to noise and to smell has lost a judicial review in the High Court after Mr Justice Murray decided there was nothing more the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (RBKC) could reasonably have done to relieve the situation.
The Government has this week (8 April) launched a consultation on clarifying the law to encourage organisations to apologise to those who have been wronged.
A claimant has won a judicial review challenge in the High Court over Westminster City Council’s decision to refuse to agree to her request for a "reciprocal transfer" into accommodation in its area.
The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal by Cambridge City Council over whether it was justified in offering the claimant/respondent accommodation with one bedroom despite him wanting a home large enough for his children to stay overnight when visiting.
The Family Justice Council (FJC) is looking to appoint two practising solicitors specialising in public law family work – one local authority lawyer and one private practice lawyer.
His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has suspended face to face hearings at some Mental Health Hospitals and Trusts, citing “national security concerns”.
The High Court has rejected a challenge to a council tax bill argued on the basis that since the claimant had not consented to be taxed the council could not collect it.
Bolton Council must pay costs in a dispute over a care package and disability-related expenditure (DRE) after Mr Justice Fordham said he was “unpersuaded” by the council’s list of reasons why it should not.
The Environment Agency has “successfully pursued” ten boat-owners through the courts, who had moored continuously on the River Thames for several years.
The President of the Family Division has determined the issue of whether or not the commissioning parents of a child born through a surrogacy arrangement in the USA, who had already adopted their child in that country, were nevertheless entitled to have a parental order granted in their favour in England and Wales.
The Court of Appeal has set aside a care order made in respect of a nine-month-old baby, after concluding the judge made an order which was “not open to her in law”.
The Ministry of Justice has reported that 289 children were subject to applications to deprive them of their liberty between October and December 2023 in England and Wales.
Sarah Christy, Laura Waby and Sumi Begum round up the latest housing law cases and court decisions of interest to local authorities and housing associations.
Amjad Kadhim explores the issue of applications for expert evidence under Part 25 Family Procedure Rules 2010 in light of a recent Family Division case decided..
A High Court judge recently refused a local authority’s application for a deprivation of liberty (DoL) order in respect of a 12-year-old girl with “profound and enduring” disabilities. Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon) analyses the ruling.
A High Court judge has ruled that the general principle that a litigant in judicial review proceedings is not entitled, as a matter of course, to redact, on the ground of relevance, the identities of officials in disclosure cannot be contracted out by the parties’ agreement through a consent order. Jonathan Blunden and Christian Grierson analyse the judgment.
Amanda Schofield analyses a Court of Appeal ruling on the jurisdiction of the court to make a declaration that a marriage is not recognised as valid in England and Wales.
A recent ruling from the Technology and Construction Court has suggested that voluminous documents will rarely be a breach of natural justice in adjudication, write Arjen Xani and Sarah Wilson.
Joe Walker and Helen Arthur explain what a remediation order is and look at two recent cases to see how the First-Tier Tribunal has interpreted the framework for these.
In a unanimous judgment, the Court of Appeal has dismissed the government’s appeal of a High Court judgment which proscribed the government’s practice of routinely redacting the names of junior civil servants when supplying disclosure in judicial review proceedings. Christian Grierson and Jonathan Blunden analyse the judgment.