Jan 23, 2020
An inspector made minor errors when considering a planning dispute in Essex but these were not significant enough to invalidate her decision letter, the High Court has ruled.
Jan 23, 2020
The Court of Appeal has set aside an adoption order on the grounds that it had been premature for judge to rule out the possibility of a birth family placement for child B.
Jan 23, 2020
A resident who lives near the planned route of the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail line has won the right to bring a judicial review against its tunnel design under London’s Euston station.
Jan 23, 2020
The Vice-President of the Court of Protection, Mr Justice Hayden, has issued guidance on applications to the court relating to medical treatment.
Jan 23, 2020
Northampton is to set up England’s largest town council ahead of local government reorganisation in the county.
Jan 22, 2020
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has criticised a county council after a man with autism was left relying on his parents to part-fund his care when the local authority cut his package without identifying a suitable alternative.
Jan 22, 2020
Some 79% of local authority areas have no publicly funded legal advice for vulnerable people to challenge community care arrangements, the Law Society has claimed.
Jan 22, 2020
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has launched a call for evidence on how legal regulators ensure the professionals they regulate remain competent throughout their careers.
Jan 22, 2020
Health and social care law firm Hempsons is to merge with Eastwoods which specialises in defending professionals.
Jan 22, 2020
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council has launched the procurement of legal services for litigation in relation to insurance claims.
Jan 22, 2020
The number of legal professionals contacting LawCare for emotional support continues to rise year on year, with 677 people seeking help in 2019.
Jan 22, 2020
Kings Chambers has strengthened its planning and personal injury teams with the arrival of two new tenants.
Jan 21, 2020
The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by the London Borough of Bromley over a High Court judge’s refusal to grant a borough-wide injunction on encampment at all accessible public spaces in the council’s area.
Jan 21, 2020
Legal constraints still make it too easy for illegal schools to operate in defiance of the law, the head of Ofsted has warned in her annual report.
Jan 21, 2020
Specialist professional services and technology firm Davies has acquired law firm Keoghs, which operates a defendant-only model and whose clients include public sector bodies.
Jan 21, 2020
A Scottish housing association has launched the procurement of a legal services framework worth an estimated £550,000 over four years.
Jan 21, 2020
The UK Municipal Bonds Agency (UKMBA) has unveiled plans to issue its first ever bond, a £250-300m 5-year SONIA linked Floating Rate Note (FRN) for Lancashire County Council.
Jan 20, 2020
Family and criminal barristers handling publicly funded work consider the cuts and changes to legal aid as a major concern, a report by LexisNexis UK has revealed.
Jan 20, 2020
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets has recovered a council home and £105,000 after a former resident was sentenced earlier this month in relation to two charges of housing fraud.
Jan 20, 2020
It is not possible to make a valid Part 36 offer exclusive of interest either generally or in the context of detailed assessment proceedings, the Court of Appeal has ruled in a case involving a local authority.
Jan 20, 2020
The government declined to bail out two PFI schemes being built by failed construction firm Carillion for risk of setting a precedent that the taxpayer would bear the risk of future PFI projects that ran into trouble, a report published last week by the National Audit Office has found.
Jan 20, 2020
Law firm Bevan Brittan has appointed James Teagle as a partner in its property disputes team.
Jan 17, 2020
Councils across England are being reminded about the financial support they must provide to foster carers’ school transport expenses following an investigation by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman into Wolverhampton council.
Jan 17, 2020
The Local Government Ombudsman has issued a rare further report stating their recommendations were not implemented by Medway Council and the correct process to disagree with the recommendations was not followed.
Jan 17, 2020
The Local Government Association has called for tougher legislation in England to tackle business rates avoidance, saying research had shown that the problem is costing local services an estimated £250m a year.
Jan 16, 2020
The appointment of 114 new Queen’s Counsel was announced today with a record number of successful BAME applicants and a significant number of Court of Protection and Child Protection Lawyers taking silk.
Jan 16, 2020
The General Pharmaceutical Council has selected law firm Blake Morgan to provide legal services to its fitness to practice team under a contract worth an estimated £3m.
Jan 16, 2020
The Department for Education has called on directors of children’s services to review the processes for recruiting adopters to ensure their councils are compliant with the legislative framework on who can adopt.
Jan 16, 2020
The 'Ask Italian' restaurant chain – part of the Azzuri Restaurants group – has been fined £40,000 by Swansea Magistrates after pleading guilty to an offence under the Food Safety Act 1990.
Jan 16, 2020
The Government has launched a Joint Unit for Waste Crime (JUWC) bringing together law enforcement agencies, environmental regulators, HMRC and the National Crime Agency from across the UK to target waste criminals.
Jan 16, 2020
Legal mental health and wellbeing charity LawCare and academics at the University of Sheffield and The Open University have launched a free, online resource for legal professionals in hopes of teaching better wellbeing practices in the sector.
Jan 16, 2020
A judge has awarded costs against Birmingham Children’s Trust (BCT) and NHS Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) after what he called their “wholesale failure” in a case of a young man with severe epilepsy.
Jan 16, 2020
Cardiff Council has handed a councillor a four months suspension after an investigation by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales.
Jan 16, 2020
A council significantly delayed completing an assessment of a complainant's social care needs, failed to complete a support plan before reducing his personal budget and failed to properly involve him in the assessment and support planning process, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has…
Jan 16, 2020
A local resident has seen all four grounds for judicial review rejected in her challenge to Shropshire Council’s planning consent for a sand and gravel extraction project.
Jan 15, 2020
The Wellbeing Committee of the Family Court at Birmingham has introduced a protocol this month with a view to professionals, practitioners, court staff and members of the judiciary being able to benefit from increased wellbeing, a reduction in unnecessary stress and the achievement of a better work…
Jan 15, 2020
A major criminal investigation undertaken from 2004 to 2005 that uncovered the systematic exploitation of looked after children mainly in the care system in the city of Manchester, led to very few positive criminal justice outcomes, an independent review has found.
Jan 15, 2020
The Campaign To Protect Rural England (CPRE) has lost an attempt to stop Herefordshire Council’s decision to grant permission for 11 blocks of polytunnels.
Jan 15, 2020
A company that operated a former nightclub where a customer died in a fall, has been ordered to pay £24,000 in fines and costs.
Jan 15, 2020
An unincorporated association does have capacity to bring both a judicial review and a statutory challenge, a High Court judge has ruled.
Jan 15, 2020
A Scottish housing association is to appoint a single provider to a legal services contract worth an estimated £700,000 over five years.
Jan 14, 2020
The London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames has agreed to carry out a full audit of its education provision and pay £17,500 to three families after the Local Government Ombudsman strongly criticised the council’s children’s service provider, Achieving for Children, for not effectively supporting…
Jan 13, 2020
Lord Reed has today (13 January) been sworn in as President of the Supreme Court, in succession to Baroness Hale.
Jan 13, 2020
A major housing association has launched the procurement of a legal services framework worth an estimated £1.8m.
Jan 13, 2020
DWR Cymru Welsh Water has appointed ten law firms to a legal services framework agreement estimated to be worth £14m.
Jan 10, 2020
LGSS Law, the social enterprise law firm owned by three councils, is on track to return to profit, its Executive Director has said, after its accounts for 2018/19 showed losses of more than £1.2m, up from £300,000 the previous year.
Jan 09, 2020
The Local Government Association last month issued an updated version of Probity in Planning, its guidance for officers and councillors.
Jan 09, 2020
Families face homelessness because of errors in the way some councils deal with appeals against decisions on housing benefit claims, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has warned.
Jan 09, 2020
A provider of homes for vulnerable adults is to seek judicial review later this month of an assessment issued by the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) after the watchdog said its governance and financial viability were both inadequate.
Jan 09, 2020
The number of children in care has risen by 28% in the past decade pushing the system to breaking point, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.
Jan 09, 2020
A campaign group has threatened the governing body of a school on the Isle of Wight with a judicial review challenge in a dispute over reorganisation.
Jan 08, 2020
Leeds City Council has today (8 January) secured an injunction against a proposed homeless encampment which it claimed would create a “tent city” in a car park.
Jan 08, 2020
Manchester City Council is to enshrine the principles of ‘Martyn’s Law’, which is intended to improve security at public venues, into its future regulations.
Jan 08, 2020
Law firm Ashfords has advised Maidstone Borough Council on the acquisition of a long leasehold interest in a leisure park for circa £18.7m.
Jan 08, 2020
National law firm Weightmans has bolstered its London office with the addition of two lateral hires in its healthcare and regulatory teams.
Jan 07, 2020
A Ministry of Justice consultation on proposed changes to the Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme (HPCDS) fails to address the fundamental issues of sustainability, the Law Society has claimed.
Jan 07, 2020
A former Reablement Officer at Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council has been prosecuted by the Information Commissioner’s Officer for accessing social care records without authorisation.
Jan 07, 2020
A defendant found guilty of five separate fly-tipping offences has been given a 30-month custodial sentence, following a prosecution brought by Portsmouth City Council.
Jan 07, 2020
The deadline has reportedly passed for property investment company Capital & Regional to appeal the High Court's decision to dismiss its application for a judicial review challenge over the grant of planning permission for a mixed-use gateway scheme that would help delivery of a new 23,000-seater…
Jan 07, 2020
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) has criticised the London Borough of Haringey after a young, single-parent family, including a disabled child, had to leave their home after the council miscalculated their housing benefits.
Jan 07, 2020
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets has agreed to consider service resources and “the changes it needs to make to work in line with the law” after a Local Government and Social Ombudsman investigation into how a pregnant woman, who approached the council for help when she was made homeless, was…
Jan 06, 2020
Leeds City Council is to seek an injunction over a homeless support group’s plans to organise an encampment in a car park.
Jan 06, 2020
Lawyers in Local Government has launched the LLG Awards 2020, with a deadline for submitting nominations of 20th January.
Jan 06, 2020
A resident who claimed to be a ‘Freeman of the land’ has been fined £15,000 for refusing to remove an unlawfully built extension that covered the whole of his back garden.
Jan 06, 2020
The Troubled Families programme, which involves work with the whole family unit across local services, is to receive up to £165m in new funding, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced.
Jan 06, 2020
Councils have called for the introduction of tougher sentences for fly-tipping, after the latest figures showed it costs them £58m a year to clear up.
Jan 03, 2020
A new inquest into the death of 9 year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah will be held November or December this year, following the ordering of a new inquest by the high court last year.
Jan 03, 2020
More than 100 councils in England will share over £4m as part of a crackdown on criminal landlords and letting agents, the Housing Secretary has announced.
Jan 03, 2020
The London Borough of Hillingdon has lost a judicial review challenge over a decision by government ministers to allow High Speed Two’s appeal over the council’s refusal to grant approval for proposed works for the creation of an ecological mitigation area.
Jan 02, 2020
A landlord in Luton has been ordered to pay £27,000 at a sentencing hearing after previously pleading guilty to illegally managing a house in multiple occupation.
Dec 31, 2019
The West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority is to set up a specialist fire safety legal services framework agreement worth up to £480,000 over four years.
Dec 31, 2019
A homeowner who damaged a 90-year-old tree so much that it had to be felled has been fined more than £60,000 following a criminal prosecution by Chelmsford City Council.
Dec 31, 2019
A district council has successfully defended the grant of planning permission to itself for a multi-storey car park and other development on land in a conservation area, having previously lost an earlier judicial review challenge over a similar development.
Dec 31, 2019
An assessment carried out by a London borough did not constitute a discharge of its duties under the Care Act because it failed to include all the individual's needs, whether currently being met or not, a judge has ruled.
Dec 31, 2019
The Court of Appeal earlier this month granted the family of a Leicestershire teenager with special educational needs permission to appeal a High Court ruling dismissing their legal challenge over proposed changes to the county council’s school transport policy.
Dec 30, 2019
A local authority has won an appeal over a Family Court judge’s refusal of its application for interim care orders for two children.
Dec 30, 2019
East Suffolk Council has been threatened with a judicial review of its decision to grant planning permission for development of a nuclear power site.
Dec 30, 2019
The Welsh Government has highlighted draft legislation aimed at enhancing the ability of councillors to attend council meetings remotely more easily and job share cabinet posts.
Dec 30, 2019
The High Court has this month rejected a legal challenge to Southwark Council’s grant of planning permission for a major redevelopment of a large site that includes the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre.
Dec 30, 2019
Shropshire Council failed to take reasonable steps to acquaint itself with the history and legal status of land off a recreation ground when it granted planning permission for a development of 15 dwellings, a High Court judge has ruled.
Dec 30, 2019
The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) has issued a prior information notice on its plans to re-tender for a national legal services framework worth an estimated £65m.
Dec 30, 2019
A consortium of Scottish local authorities has appointed seven law firms to a legal services framework worth £12m.
Dec 28, 2019
Four members of the Government Legal Service have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours List 2020.
Dec 27, 2019
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council has successfully defended a High Court challenge over its decision to close a day centre for adults with learning difficulties.
Dec 27, 2019
The government has stood down Lord Carlile from the role of Independent Reviewer of the Prevent programme in the face of a legal challenge.
Dec 20, 2019
Government plans to seek cross-party consensus “urgently” in order to bring forward the necessary proposals and legislation for long-term social care reform in England were among proposals unveiled in the Queen’s Speech yesterday, but concerns have been expressed that "we've heard it all before".
Dec 20, 2019
Three claimants are crowd funding a legal challenge against Oxfordshire County Council in a bid to remove the Oxfordshire Trans Inclusion Toolkit recommended to schools and educational settings, which they argue is “unlawful and damaging to children”.
Dec 19, 2019
A High Court judge has refused to grant Rochdale Council permission to challenge the findings of a Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman on the way it pays special guardians.
Dec 19, 2019
The director of a lettings and property management agency who defrauded more than £230,000 from the landlords and tenants that were his clients has received a two-year prison sentence, following an investigation by Southampton City Council’s Trading Standards Service.
Dec 19, 2019
Judges, lawyers and others in the family justice system are “running flat out up a down escalator which, despite our efforts, is outpacing us”, the President of the Family Division has warned.
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