R (Wilson) v Wychavon District Council

Subject Matter

PLANNING — Planning control — Breach — Gipsies to cease using own land for stationing caravans and human habitation — Local authority issuing stop notices — Stop notice provision applying to use of residential caravans but exempting dwelling houses — Indirect discrimination against gipsies and Irish travellers — Whether differential treatment justified — Whether statutory provision incompatible with Convention right — Town and Country Planning Act 1990, s 183(4) (as substituted by Planning and Compensation Act 1991, s 9) — Human Rights Act 1998, s 4, Sch 1, Pt I, art 14

[2007] QB 801; [2007] 2 WLR 798

STATUTE — Construction — Hansard — Decisions on compatibility of legislation with Human Rights Convention — Whether permissible to seek assistance from reports of parliamentary debates

[2007] QB 801; [2007] 2 WLR 798

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