The Upper Tribunal has allowed a mother’s appeal concerning the Education Health and Care (EHC) Plans of her two children, after finding a “procedural irregularity” in respect of pagination issues in the court bundle.

Cornerstone Barristers has appointed Julian Hawes, former Director of Business Development at the International Arbitration Centre (IAC), as its new Senior Clerk.

John McKendrick KC has been appointed as a judge of the High Court, assigned to the Family Division.

The Court of Appeal has allowed a mother’s appeal against a judge’s decision to approve a care plan to remove her child to be placed with her paternal grandparents, finding that the Family Court judge failed to undertake a “necessary holistic review” when conducting her final analysis and reaching her conclusions.

Croydon Council has discontinued a judicial review claim brought against Surrey County Council following a dispute between the authorities over a family with high social care and special educational needs (SEN) costs.

The number of judicial review claims brought by local authorities has risen steadily since 2021, but permissions have fallen, a report from law firm Burges Salmon has found.

The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has issued guidance for family judges on when, how and why to write to children in family court proceedings.

A multi-million pound claim brought by Thurrock Council against 23 member councils of the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) has been paused following an agreement between the parties to stay proceedings.

An insulation manufacturer has launched a judicial review challenge against the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's decision to exclude the company from council building projects over claims the firm was implicated in the Grenfell Tower fire.

Rates for the Attorney General’s civil panel counsel are to be increased by 25% for all work carried out from 1 April 2025, the Treasury Solicitor has announced.

The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, has put would-be parents of any age who are contemplating entering into a commercial foreign surrogacy arrangement on notice that the courts in England and Wales may refuse to grant an adoption order, with the result that the child that they have caused to be born may be permanently State-less and legally parent-less.

The Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal by a Sudanese national that the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) failed to give adequate reasons for accepting an age assessment made by West Berkshire Council.

A Planning Court judge has given campaign group Save Wimbledon Park (SWP) permission to bring a legal challenge over the Mayor of London’s decision to grant planning permission for the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC)’s proposed redevelopment of the former Wimbledon Park golf course.

Manchester City Council can proceed with evictions at a tent encampment in St Peter’s Square, a judge has ruled.

A man has been found guilty of defrauding Leeds City Council out of more than £710,000 which was meant to support small businesses during the Coronavirus pandemic.

A group campaigning to stop two council-run dementia care homes being transferred to the private sector have threatened legal action against Kirklees Council, accusing the authority of failing to follow a “recognised consultation".

The High Court has dismissed a council’s application for judicial review against the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) over a report that upheld a complaint of maladministration against the local authority in a nursery school fees case.

A council has made a referral to the police amid concerns that objections to a planning application for a new sports facility may not have been made by the person whose name was registered to the objection.

Cardiff Capital Region has conceded liability, causation and sufficiently serious breach in a procurement challenge to the award of a £40 million contract for the demolition of Aberthaw Power Station.

City of York Council has called on tenants to report repairs to their landlord first, after a judge at York County Court last month ordered an unsuccessful disrepair claimant to pay almost £8,000 in costs.

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has sent a pre-action protocol letter to Suffolk County Council and a letter to the Ministry of Defence, highlighting concerns over the potential stationing of nuclear weapons at an RAF base in Lakenheath.

North Yorkshire Council has issued a pre-action protocol letter over the Government's decision to rescind the rural services delivery grant worth millions, a move the unitary authority had previously dubbed "Rayner's rural robbery".

Cornerstone Barristers has appointed Nadia Biles Davies as its new Chief Executive Officer.

A landfill operator who sought a judicial review against the Environment Agency's decision to issue a closure notice for the site has had their application refused by the High Court.

The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal over whether a local authority can authorise the deprivation of liberty of a 14-year-old boy in exercise of its parental responsibility under a care order.

The Home Office has lost a case about the allocation of bail accommodation for a foreign national offender and has been ordered by the High Court to make various changes to this system as well as pay 85% of claimant BLZ’s costs.

The three-year time limit for victims of child sexual abuse on turning 18 to bring personal injury claims is to be removed, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed.

Devon County Council was not required to take into account various statutory duties under the Care Act and other statutory provisions when it decided to close a non-statutory service, the High Court has found.

A County Court judge has confessed to both “significant” and “considerable” hesitation in deciding a case involving whether a person can be deemed intentionally homeless when they have obtained a tenancy following misrepresentations to a local housing authority, which then evicts them as a result.