Results: 732

• Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Authority v Howell

  13 Feb 2023 [2023] EWHC 257 (Ch); [2023] ICR 686; [2023] WLR(D) 82, Ch D (Judge Davis-White KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge)

  PENSIONS — Early retirement — Firemen’s Pension Scheme
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  PENSIONS — Early retirement — Firemen’s Pension Scheme — Scheme giving member right to retire at 50 conditional on permission of employer — Statute increasing normal minimum pension age from 50 to 55 — Exception provided where member having “actual or prospective right” to benefit at 5 April 2006 — No permission at that date for defendant member to serve early retirement notice — Whether member having “prospective right” to retire at 50 — Finance Act 2004 (c 12), Sch 36, para 22(4)(a)

  1 Statute considered

• R v AUH (R v BIY)

  16 Jan 2023 [2023] EWCA Crim 6; [2023] 1 WLR 1399; [2023] 1 Cr App R 17; [2023] WLR(D) 28, CA (Lord Burnett of Maldon CJ, Jay, Cutts JJ)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Powers — Prosecution
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  LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Powers — Prosecution — Local authority’s power to bring prosecution for consumer offences — Whether offences charged “consumer offences” — Whether consent of Director of Public Prosecutions required before bringing prosecution for unauthorised moneylending — Whether judge’s indication that prosecution should elect between offences “ruling” against which appeal lying — Whether local authority conducting litigation through person neither authorised nor exempt — Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (c 25), s 35(1) — Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (c 8), s 401(2) — Legal Services Act 2007 (c 29), s 12, Sch 2, para 4(1)(b), Sch 3, para 2(4)(a) — Consumer Rights Act 2015 (c 15), Sch 5, para 46(1)

  1 Case considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  4 Statutes considered

• R v Cook (Alfie)

  04 Apr 2023 [2023] EWCA Crim 452; [2023] 4 WLR 71; [2023] WLR(D) 376, CA (William Davis LJ, Cockerill, Johnson JJ)

  Subsequent citations: 16.
  CRIME — Sentence — Non-fatal strangulation
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  CRIME — Sentence — Non-fatal strangulation — Proper approach to sentencing in absence of Sentencing Council guideline — Serious Crime Act 2015 (c 9), s 75A

  1 Statute considered

• In re C (Practice Note)

  21 Feb 2023 [2023] EWHC 345 (Fam); [2024] 1 WLR 1; [2023] 2 FLR 1171; [2023] WLR(D) 115, Fam D (Sir Andrew McFarlane P)

  Subsequent citations: 21.
  PRACTICE — Family proceedings — Expert evidence
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  PRACTICE — Family proceedings — Expert evidence — Guidance as to appointment of expert psychologists in family proceedings — Role of expert psychologist where parental alienation alleged — Children and Families Act 2014 (c 6), s 13(8) — FPR r 25.2(1)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• A Local Authority v EBY (A Child)

  09 Oct 2023 [2023] EWHC 2494 (Fam); [2024] Fam 123; [2024] 2 WLR 579; [2023] WLR(D) 420, Fam D (Paul Bowen KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge)

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CHILDREN — Inherent jurisdiction — Deprivation of liberty
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  CHILDREN — Inherent jurisdiction — Deprivation of liberty — Competent 17-year-old child not in care but accommodated by local authority pursuant to statutory duty — Local authority applying for order under inherent jurisdiction authorising deprivation of child’s liberty — Whether such exercise of inherent jurisdiction expressly or impliedly excluded by statute — Whether order to be made — Children Act 1989 (c 41), ss 20(3), 31(3), 100(2)(b)(d) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 2, 3, 5

  4 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

• Gorbachev v Guriev

  20 Jul 2022 [2022] EWHC 1907 (Comm); [2022] WLR(D) 352, QBD (Jacobs J)

  30 Sep 2022 [2022] EWCA Civ 1270; [2023] KB 1; [2023] 2 WLR 1; [2023] 2 All ER 809; [2022] WLR(D) 387, CA (Nicola Davies, Males, Lewis LJJ)

  04 Jan 2023 (appn dis) [2023] 1 WLR 948, SC(E) (Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Kitchin, Lord Sales JJSC)

  28 Mar 2023 (Costs) [2023] EWCA Civ 327; [2023] 1 WLR 2457; [2024] 1 All ER 885; [2023] WLR(D) 164, CA (Males, Popplewell, Dingemans LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 16.
  PRACTICE — Service out of Jurisdiction — Third party disclosure

  COSTS — Order for costs — Application for third party disclosure
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  PRACTICE — Service out of Jurisdiction — Third party disclosure — Permission granted to serve application for third party disclosure out of jurisdiction under jurisdictional gateway relating to “claim” under “enactment” allowing “proceedings to be brought” — Third parties applying to set aside application — Whether application constituting “claim” — Whether enactment allowing “proceedings to be brought” — Whether application able to be brought against persons outside jurisdiction — Whether court having jurisdiction — Whether appropriate for court having jurisdiction to exercise discretion to serve out — Senior Courts Act 1981 (c 54), s 34 — CPR Pt 6, r 31.17, PD 6B, para 3.1(20)

  PRACTICE — Service out of Jurisdiction — Third party disclosure — Party applying for disclosure order against third parties located outside jurisdiction in respect of documents located within jurisdiction — Whether jurisdiction to grant permission to serve such application out of jurisdiction — Whether application constituting “claim” and “proceedings” for purposes of jurisdictional gateway — Whether enactment permitting application to be made against persons outside jurisdiction — Senior Courts Act 1981 (c 54), s 34 — CPR PD 6B, para 3.1(20), r 31.17

  COSTS — Order for costs — Application for third party disclosure — Claimant applying for third party disclosure — Third party unsuccessfully challenging application on jurisdiction grounds — Whether third party to pay claimant’s costs of jurisdiction challenge — Whether costs of jurisdiction challenge costs of disclosure application — CPR rr 31.17, 44.2(2)(a), 46.1

  13 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Caldwell v Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

  07 Aug 2023 [2023] EWHC 2053 (Admin); [2023] PTSR 2075; [2024] 2 All ER 172; [2023] WLR(D) 351, KBD (Lieven J)

  02 May 2024 [2024] EWCA Civ 467; [2024] PTSR 1761; [2025] 1 All ER 749; [2024] WLR(D) 205, CA (Sir Keith Lindblom SPT, Coulson, Andrews LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  PLANNING — Enforcement notice — Appeal
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  PLANNING — Enforcement notice — Appeal — Construction of dwelling on land having permission for agricultural use only — Local planning authority issuing enforcement notice seven years after substantial completion requiring demolition of building and reversion to agricultural use — Whether requirement to remove building unlawful — Limits or parameters of statutory power requiring restoration of land to condition prior to breach — Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8), ss 171B(1)(3), 172, 173(3)(4)(a)

  PLANNING — Enforcement notice — Appeal — Construction of residential dwelling on land having permission for agricultural use only — Local planning authority issuing enforcement notice seven years after substantial completion requiring demolition of building and reversion to agricultural use — Whether requirement to remove building unlawful — Limits or parameters of statutory power requiring restoration of land to condition prior to breach — Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8), ss 171B(1)(3), 172, 173(3)(4)(a)

  10 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Shah v Power

  11 Feb 2022 [2022] EWHC 209 (QB); [2022] 1 WLR 3015; [2022] WLR(D) 81, QBD (Eyre J)

  07 Mar 2023 [2023] EWCA Civ 239; [2023] 1 WLR 2830; [2024] 1 All ER 1066; [2023] WLR(D) 194, CA (Lewison, Coulson, Elisabeth Laing LJJ)

  24 Jul 2023 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court refused

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  BUILDING — Party wall — Dispute resolution procedure
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  BUILDING — Party wall — Dispute resolution procedure — Property owner carrying out works without serving statutory party wall notice — Whether neighbouring owners entitled to invoke statutory dispute resolution procedure in absence of notice — Party Wall etc Act 1996 (c 40), ss 10, 20

  BUILDING — Party wall — Dispute resolution procedure — Building owner carrying out works without serving party structure notice — Whether adjoining owners able to invoke statutory dispute resolution procedure in absence of notice — Party Wall etc Act 1996 (c 40), ss 2, 3, 10

  8 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• James v Seymour

  19 Apr 2023 [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam); [2023] 4 WLR 53; [2024] 1 FLR 614; [2023] WLR(D) 222, Fam D (Mostyn J)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; most recently considered: 2023. Subsequent citations: 9.
  MARRIAGE — Divorce — Financial provision
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  MARRIAGE — Divorce — Financial provision — Child maintenance — Wife appealing against refusal of judge to dramatically increase child maintenance in application to vary consent order covering spousal and child maintenance — Correct approach to formulaic determination of child support starting points — Identification of correct formula to be used to determine starting point in appropriate cases — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), ss 25(3), 31(7) — Children Act 1989 (c 41), Schedule 1, paras 4(1), 6(1)

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

• Kealy v Westfield Community Development Association

  11 Jul 2023 [2023] EAT 96; [2023] ICR 1298; [2023] WLR(D) 319, EAT (Judge James Tayler)

  EMPLOYMENT — Protected disclosure — Qualifying disclosure
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  EMPLOYMENT — Protected disclosure — Qualifying disclosure — Claimant making disclosures to employer and externally — Claim of being subjected to detriments as result — Employment tribunal addressing issues as listed by parties — Correct approach to determining protected disclosure claims — Employment Rights Act 1996 (c 18), ss 43B, 43C, 43G

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered