Freeman-Roach v Rother District Council

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Neutral Citation[2018] EWCA Civ 368
Date2018
Year2018
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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5 cases
  • Abdelrahim Alibkhiet v London Borough of Brent; Amounah Adam v City of Westminster
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 6 December 2018
    ...the arguments advanced.” 50 These principles apply equally to review decisions under the Housing Act 1996: Rother DC v Freeman-Roach [2018] EWCA Civ 368, [2018] HLR 22. 51 It must be emphasised that the purpose of giving reasons is twofold: first so that the parties can know what was decide......
  • Wendy Lomax v Gosport Borough Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 1 August 2018
    ...inconsistencies, or adopt a nit-picking approach, when confronted with an appeal against a review decision: Rother DC v Freeman-Roach [2018] EWCA Civ 368, [2018] HLR 22; applying Holmes-Moorhouse v Richmond Upon Thames LBC [2009] UKHL 7, [2009] 1 WLR 413. 38 What tipped the balance for the ......
  • Stephen McMahon v Watford Borough Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 8 April 2020
    ...that the reviewer has made an error that undermines the decision; it is not for the reviewer to demonstrate that he has not: Freeman-Roach v Rother District Council [2018] EWCA Civ 368, [2019] PTSR 16 In examining the reasons for a decision, the court should adopt a benevolent approach. I......
  • Mr Sivapragasam Kannan v London Borough of Newham
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 4 February 2019
    ...v Richmond upon Thames LBC [2009] UKHL 7, [2009] 1 WLR 413; Poshteh v Kensington and Chelsea RLBC; Rother DC v Freeman-Roach [2018] EWCA Civ 368, [2018] HLR 18 Applying that approach, I consider that the reviewing officer did not conduct an adequate review. First, he appears to me to have ......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Reducing Homelessness or Re‐ordering the Deckchairs?
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 82-1, January 2019
    • 1 January 2019
    ...see the almost inevitableclar ificationsprovided in Panayiotou vWaltham-Forest LBC [2017] EWCA Civ 1624, and Freeman-Roach vRother DC [2018] EWCA Civ 368.25 These were extended by the Homelessness (Priority Need for Accommodation) (England)Order 2002, SI 2002/2051.26 The ‘back to basics’ pol......

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