Ferko v Ealing Magistrates’ Court

Subject Matter

CRIME — Practice — Submission of no case to answer — Magistrates granting defendants’ submissions of no case to answer — Whether giving sufficient reasons for decision

[2024] EWHC 2592 (Admin); [2025] 1 WLR 564; [2024] WLR(D) 439, KBD

MAGISTRATES' COURT — Practice — Reasons for decision — Magistrates failing to give sufficient reasons for decision when delivered — Whether lawful to give additional reasons later

[2024] EWHC 2592 (Admin); [2025] 1 WLR 564; [2024] WLR(D) 439, KBD

PUBLIC HEALTH — Statutory nuisance — Causation — Tenant bringing summary nuisance proceedings against owners and managers of flat — Whether tenant required to establish “but for” causation of nuisance — Whether tenant required to prove structural disrepair — Whether court required to consider whether flat unfit for human habitation — Whether tenant’s notice of statutory nuisance adequate — Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c 43), ss 79, 82

[2024] EWHC 2592 (Admin); [2025] 1 WLR 564; [2024] WLR(D) 439, KBD

Commentary

Nearly Legal
Ealing comedy. Getting statutory nuisance very wrong Case comment