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Everyone’s Business Episode 5: Safeguarding in Esports
Everyone’s Business is a safeguarding podcast which explores interesting and unique perspectives in respect of safeguarding children and adults at risk. The series is part of 39 Essex Chambers’ Public… Read more »
James Bradford in High Court Application to Strike Out/ Summary Judgment in $2.7 Million Claim with Disputed Issues of Fact
On 2 August 2022, the London Circuit Commercial Court (QBD) gave judgment in Gian Angelo Perrucci v Orlean Invest Holding Ltd [2022] EWHC 2038 (Comm) which concerned two applications made… Read more »
Earthline has to tear down Wroughton airfield buildings after losing appeal
Less than a year after successfully seeing off the proposed development of an 80,0000m2 science park at Inlands Farm, adjacent to the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty[1],… Read more »
Hunston Revisited
Having won Hunston Properties[1] almost 10 years ago, the seminal case on “objectively assessed needs”, Paul Stinchcombe QC has returned to familiar territory, winning again for the same developer when… Read more »
High Court grants Natural England strike-out of claim challenging Environmental Damage Regulations, applying principles of procedural exclusivity (James Burton appeared for Natural England).
In Armstrong Aggregates Ltd v Natural England [2022] EWHC 2009 (Admin), a judgment handed down on 28 July 2022, the Hon. Mr Justice Fordham has thrown out an attempt to… Read more »
Important judgment on the interpretation of HMRC’s standard guarantee for deferred tax payments
Rebecca Drake represented the successful claimant in Commercial Court proceedings concerning the interpretation of HMRC’s standard guarantee for deferred tax payments. In a judgment dated 25th July 2022 Philip Marshall… Read more »
International Court of Justice Gives Judgment on the Preliminary Objections in the Case Brought by The Gambia Against Myanmar
On 22 July 2022, the International Court of Justice in The Hague delivered its judgment on the preliminary objections raised by Myanmar in the case concerning Application of the Convention… Read more »
Grant of Development Consent for Sizewell C
On 20 July 2022 the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy granted a development consent order for a new nuclear power station in Suffolk, Sizewell C. Stephen… Read more »
High Court declares that Government’s net zero strategy breaches its obligations under the Climate Change Act 2008
R (on the application of (1) Friends of the Earth Limited (2) ClientEarth (3) Good Law Project and Joanna Wheatley v Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy… Read more »
Council’s special guardianship allowance model quashed by High Court
Victoria Butler-Cole QC represented the successful claimant in proceedings for judicial review of the mechanism used by Plymouth City Council to calculate payments to special guardians. The council’s model has… Read more »
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