R v Derbyshire County Council, ex parte Woods

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1997
Date1997
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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  • University of Bristol v North Somerset Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 7 March 2013
    ...objectively in accordance with the language used read in its proper context, paragraph 18. Or as it was put by Brooke LJ in R. v Derbyshire County Council ex p. Woods [1997] JPL 958 at p.967, it is for the court to determine as a matter of law what the words are capable of meaning and the ......
  • Cranage Parish Council v First Secretary of State
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 9 December 2004
    ...the policy, then the decision will be as defective as it would be if no regard had been paid to the policy." 46 In R v Derbyshire County Council ex parte Woods [1997] JPL 958, Brooke LJ said this: "If there is a dispute about the meaning of the words included in a policy document which a pl......
  • R (on the application of Dowling) v Secretary of State for Comunities and Local Government
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 22 March 2007
    ...decision-maker or a planning authority. In that context, I was referred to the now well-known decision in the case of ex parte Woods [1997] JPL 958, and I was also referred to some observations of, as it happens, myself at paragraphs 49 and 50 of the judgment which I delivered in the case o......
  • O'Brien v Moriarty
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 May 2005
    ...75 P & CR 515 R (PORTLAND PORT LTD) v WEYMOUTH & PORTLAND BOROUGH COUNCIL 2001 EWHC ADMIN 1171 R v DERBYSHIRE CO COUNCIL EX PARTE WOODS 1997 JPL 958 TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) ACT 1921 TRIBUNALS OF INQUIRY (EVIDENCE) (AMDT) ACT 1979 ETHICS & PUBLIC OFFICE ACT 1995 GOODMAN INTERNATIONAL......
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  • RAISING THE BAR
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2016, December 2016
    • 1 December 2016
    ...307. 34 Michael Fordham, Judicial Review Handbook (Hart Publishing, 6th Ed, 2012) at para 21.1.9. 35(1997) 73 P & CR 199 at 203–204. 36[1998] Env LR 277. 37R v Derbyshire County Council, ex parte Woods[1998] Env LR 277 at 281. 38 R v Derbyshire County Council, ex parte Woods[1998] Env LR 27......

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