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Singh, R (on the application of) v First Secretary of State, Court of Appeal - Administrative Court, October 07, 2004, [2004] EWHC 2366 (Admin)
SMITH BERNAL WORDWAVE
CO/2464/2004 Neutral Citation Number: [2004] EWHC 2366 (Admin)IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION THE ADMINISTRATIVE COURT Royal Courts of Justice StrandLondon WC2 Thursday, 7th October 2004 B E F O R E:MR JUSTICE COLLINS - - - - - - -THE QUEEN ON THE APPLICATION OF SINGH(CLAIMANT)-v- FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE(DEFENDANT) - - - - - - - Computer-Aided Transcript of the Stenograph Notes of Smith Bernal Wordwave Limited190 Fleet Street London EC4A 2AGTel No: 020 7404 1400 Fax No: 020 7831 8838(Official Shorthand Writers to the Court)- - - - - - - MR S HOCKMAN (instructed by John Hughes Law Practice) appeared on behalf of the CLAIMANTMR R PALMER (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) appeared on behalf of the DEFENDANT- - - - - - - J U D G M E N T 1. MR JUSTICE COLLINS: Mr Singh, the appellant, occupies premises in Soho Hill in Birmingham. He there carries out a business which goes under the name of the Sofa Factory. It involves the manufacture and repair of items of furniture and their wholesale and retail sales. There is on the premises, as one might expect, a showroom in which the items can be displayed. It seems that there is also the sale of other items such as carpets, and it is the case put by Mr Singh, in the material that went before the Inspector, that 95 per cent of the items which were sold from the premises were manufactured or repaired on those premises by him.2. He purchased the premises in 2000 when the previous occupants disposed of it. The previous occupants were a firm called TIS, trading as Thomas A Ingram & Co...See the full content of this document