R (Hemming (trading as Simply Pleasure Ltd)) v Westminster City Council

Subject Matter

LICENSING — Sex establishments — Licence fee — Claimant licensees seeking judicial review of annual fee for renewal of sex establishment licence — Whether council allowed to include cost of enforcing licensing system in fee — Whether surplus or deficit from previous years to be taken into account when determining fee — Whether claimant entitled to restitution of any surplus paid — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (as amended by Policing and Crime Act 2009, s 27(7)), s 2, Sch 3, para 19 — Provision of Services Regulations 2009, regs 4, 18(4) — Parliament and Council Directive 2006/123/EC, art 13(2)

[2012] EWHC 1260 (Admin); [2012] PTSR 1676, QBD

LICENSING — Sex establishment — Licence fee — Licensees seeking judicial review of annual fee for renewal of sex establishment licence — Whether licensing authority allowed to include cost of enforcing licensing system in fee — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (as amended by Policing and Crime Act 2009, s 27(7)), s 2, Sch 3, para 19 — Provision of Services Regulations 2009, reg 18(4) — Parliament and Council Directive 2006/123/EC, art 13(2)

[2015] UKSC 25; [2015] AC 1600; [2015] 2 WLR 1271; [2015] PTSR 643; [2015] 4 All ER 471; [2015] WLR (D) 193; Case details, SC(E)

COSTS — Judicial review — Offer of settlement — Council refusing claimants’ offer to settle judicial review claim — Judgment on claim more favourable to claimants than their offer — Whether order for costs against council on indemnity basis in court below proper — CPR r 36.14(3)

[2013] EWCA Civ 591; [2013] PTSR 1377; [2013] LGR 593; [2013] WLR (D) 203, CA

LICENSING — Sex establishment — Licence fee — Claimant licensees seeking judicial review of annual fee for renewal of sex establishment licence — Whether council allowed to include cost of enforcing licensing system in fee — Whether surplus or deficit from previous years to be taken into account when determining fee — Whether claimant entitled to restitution of any surplus paid — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (as amended by Policing and Crime Act 2009, s 27(7)), s 2, Sch 3, para 19 — Provision of Services Regulations 2009, regs 4, 18(4) — Parliament and Council Directive 2006/123/EC, art 13(2)

[2013] EWCA Civ 591; [2013] PTSR 1377; [2013] LGR 593; [2013] WLR (D) 203, CA

Appellate History

Commentary

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Case Comment: R (Hemming (trading as Simply Pleasure Ltd)) v Westminster City Council [2015] UKSC 25 [2015] Cas Com 22