Recent Cases

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  Sarah Pritchard successfully defends NHS trust at quantum only trial

  7 August 2012 KATE WOODWARD v LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST [2012] EWHC 2167 (QB) The Claimant claimed £2,136,182 by way of damages to compensate her for personal injuries and consequential losses arising from the Defendant’s admitted 3.3 year delay in diagnosing a...more
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  Thermal treatment proposal frozen out

  26 July 2012 Cheshire East Council (represented by Anthony Crean QC ) have successfully opposed an appeal for a massive thermal waste treatment plant proposing to handle 400,000 tonnes of C&I and MSW per annum. It is an important decision because it illustrates the approach of the...more
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  Implications of the National Planning Policy Framework addressed by Se

  27 June 2012 Two very recent Secretary of State planning decisions are the first to address the implications of the National Planning Policy Framework: 1) Appeal relating to application for planning permission...more
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  THE PERILS OF THE AMHP:

  22 June 2012 The High Court sitting in Manchester has recently granted habeas corpus to a patient whose detention was declared unlawful because the AMHP initiating his admission has not complied with s. 11(4) of the Mental Health Act. This case illustrates, once again, that even a slight...more
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  Olympics Selection Row

  13th June 2012 Martin Budworth was appointed by Sport Resolutions as the external adjudicator on the controversial Olympics selection decision by GB Taekwondo, to guide and advise the governing body on the process and applicable criteria following an athlete's appeal which caused the...more
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  Michael Rawlinson QC presents paper to PIBA Annual Conference

  25 April 2012 Michael Rawlinson QC has just presented a paper to the 2012 PIBA Annual Conference on the topic of strategies to attempt to confront the limitation imposed by Froom v Butler. Please click here to view the paper ...more
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  Withdrawal of Life Sustaining Medical Treatment Case

  21st May 2012 Mr Justice Moor gave judgment in the case of Re O concerning the withdrawal of ventilatory support and artificial feeding for a young child. One of the parents lacked capacity to consent to make a decision concerning the same and the local authority sought guidance from the...more
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  Withdrawal of Life Sustaining Medical Treatment Case

  21st May 2012 Mr Justice Moor gave judgment in the case of Re O concerning the withdrawal of ventilatory support and artificial feeding for a young child. One of the parents lacked capacity to consent to make a decision concerning the same and the local authority sought guidance from the...more
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  Newhaven Port & Properties Limited v East Sussex County Council [2012] EWHC 647 (Admin)

  Permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal has been granted in the case of Newhaven Port and Properties Limited v East Sussex County Council [2012] EWHC 647 (Admin). The High Court was asked to consider whether the County Council had acted unlawfully in resolving to register as a village...more
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  Anonymity lifted in the Blue Room case

  The Court of Protection and Administrative Court lifted an anonymity order on 31 st March 2012 preventing the local authority and a charity being named, in a case where it ruled that an 18-year-old man with autism and severe learning disabilities who was regularly placed in a padded seclusion...more
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  Kings Employment Team secures reference to the CJEU

  5 April 2012 Nicholas Siddall of Kings Chambers’ employment team has been successful in obtaining a reference to the CJEU as to the proper application of the derogation under the Working Time Regulations 1998 (“WTR”) from the EAT in Bridgeman-v-Associated British...more
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  Important Decision of the EAT regarding Service Provision Changes

  2 April 2012 Kings Chambers’ Nicholas Siddall appeared in the decision of Bryars-v-Argyll in which the EAT addressed the above situation for the first time. The facts of the case involved whether the transfer of a military support contract in the Falkland Islands by the MoD from...more