Local Government 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 ... ...
  • Anns v Merton London Borough Council
    • House of Lords
    • 12 May 1977
    ... ... decision on two important points of principle as to the liability of local authorities for defects in dwellings constructed by builders in their area ... ...
  • South Bucks District Council v Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and another
    • House of Lords
    • 01 July 2004
  • M and Another v London Borough of Newham and Others; X and Others v Bedfordshire County Council
    • House of Lords
    • 29 June 1995
    ... ... case and the Bromley case) the plaintiffs allege that the local authorities failed to carry out duties imposed upon them as education ... It was suggested that Ministry of Housing and Local Government v. Sharp [1970] 2 Q.B. 223 was such a case, but I cannot agree. In ... ...
  • Beaulane Properties Ltd v Palmer
    • Chancery Division
    • 23 March 2005
    ... ... He does not know Mr. Palmer except as a local resident. He is a past chairman of the Planning Sub-committee of ... issues in this case: this is unlikely but possible since the UK government has made certain points on the facts, to the effect that the Pye companies ... ...
  • Bank Mellat v HM Treasury (No 2)
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 June 2013
    ... ... legislative instruments available to the United Kingdom government for the purpose of restricting the operations in the United Kingdom of ... 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 ... Ltd. v. Ministry of Housing and Local Government [1958] 1 Q.B. 554, 572 : "Although the planning authorities ... ...
  • R (Alconbury Developments Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
    • House of Lords
    • 09 May 2001
    ... ... air freight operation though this was opposed by a group of local residents ("Huntsnap") and the application was withdrawn in March 1998; ... any new evidence or new matter of fact (not being a matter of government policy), "and is for that reason disposed to disagree with a ... ...
  • 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 ... ...
  • Lloyd (A.P.) and Others (A.P.) v McMahon
    • House of Lords
    • 12 March 1987
    ... ... led to delay in receiving various items of income, including government contributions in respect of payments in lieu of rates on Crown properties ... 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 ... ...
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