R (Hemming (trading as Simply Pleasure Ltd)) v Westminster City Council (No 2) (Architects Registration Board intervening)

Subject Matter

LICENSING — Sex establishment — Licence fee — Licensees seeking judicial review of annual fee for renewal of sex establishment licence — Court of Appeal deciding licensing authority not permitted to include cost of enforcing licensing system in fee and ordering authority to refund to licensees part of fee relating to enforcement costs — Court of Justice of European Union deciding charging enforcement costs unlawful at time of licence application but lawful in event licence granted — Appropriate remedy — Extent to which authority entitled to repayment of fees refunded to licensees — Whether authority determining reasonable fees — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (c 30) (as amended by Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c 26), s 27(7)), s 2, Sch 3, para 19 — Provision of Services Regulations 2009 (SI 2009/2999), reg 18(4) — Parliament and Council Directive 2006/123/EC, art 13(2)

[2017] UKSC 50; [2018] AC 676; [2017] 3 WLR 342; [2017] PTSR 1020; [2017] WLR (D) 553; Case details, SC(E)