Local Authority in UK Law

  • Porter v Magill
    • House of Lords
    • 13 December 2001
    ... ... He was appointed by the Audit Commission under section 13 of the Local Government Finance Act 1982 to audit the accounts of Westminster City ... at the Housing Committee on 1 April 1987 in order to obtain authority for officers to provide a report on how to increase designated sales to at ... ...
  • South Bucks District Council v Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and another
    • House of Lords
    • 01 July 2004
    ... ... Ltd [1991] 1 WLR 153 ("Save") concerning the Secretary of State's grant of planning permission on appeal from the local planning authority's refusal of permission, and Bolton Metropolitan District Council v Secretary of State for the Environment (1995) 71 P & CR 309 ("Bolton") ... ...
  • M and Another v London Borough of Newham and Others; X and Others v Bedfordshire County Council
    • House of Lords
    • 29 June 1995
    ... ... 1004, 1030 : "but there is very good authority for the proposition that if a person performs a statutory duty carelessly ... case and the Bromley case) the plaintiffs allege that the local authorities failed to carry out duties imposed upon them as education ... ...
  • Bank Mellat v HM Treasury (No 2)
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 June 2013
    ... ... for the Wandsworth District (1863) 14 CB (NS) 180 , the Defendant local authority exercised without warning a statutory power to demolish any ... ...
  • Tesco Stores Ltd v Secretary of State for the Environment and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 19 October 1995
    ... ... Three companies applied to the local planning authority for planning permission to build a retail food ... ...
  • Leeds Group Plc v Leeds City Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 December 2010
    ... ... Council from 1895 to 1937, after which as a result of successive local government reorganisations it was for the most part absorbed into an ... right, even though neither the landowner, nor the registration authority pending full investigation by the Inspector of an application for ... ...
  • Lloyd (A.P.) and Others (A.P.) v McMahon
    • House of Lords
    • 12 March 1987
    ... ... interests, as well as those of individual members, employees and the local community, that a rate should be made at a very early date. On 7 May 1985 ... was at the time of his conduct in question, a member of a local authority, order him to be disqualified for being a member of a local authority for ... ...
  • Pride of Derby and Derbyshire Angling Association Ltd and Earl of Harrington v British Celanese Ltd
    • Court of Appeal
    • 15 December 1952
    ... ... Burgesses Of The County Borough Of Derby, British Electricity Authority And Midland Tar Distillers Limited (against who proceedings have been ... is of this nature: it is said on their behalf that they are a local authority charged by legislation (in their case special legislation) with ... ...
  • Stovin and Another v Norfolk County Council
    • House of Lords
    • 24 July 1996
    ... ... of public and private law obligations: the liability of a public authority in tort for failure to exercise a statutory power. When may a public ... 285; Justice David Malcolm, "The Liability and Responsibility of Local Government Authorities: Trends and Tendencies" Austr B.R. 209; Hon. John ... ...
  • Prescott v Birmingham Corporation
    • Court of Appeal
    • 30 November 1954
    ... ... That, subject to the approval of the Licensing Authority for Public Service Vehicles, the scheme, as more particularly referred to ... -section (8) applies the requirements as to RoadService Licences to Local Authorities authorised by the Act of 1930, or (as in the Defendants' case) ... ...
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