R v Somerset County Council, ex parte Dixon
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Date | 1997 |
Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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The Queen (on the Application of All the Citizens) v Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
...review. 108 It is in this context that, in our view, the celebrated dictum of Sedley J in R v Somerset County Council, ex parte Dixon [1998] Env LR 111, at 121, should be understood: “Public law is not at base about rights, even though abuses of power may and often do invade private rights;......
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Hunt v North Somerset Council
...are also wider public factors to consider. Public law is not about private rights but about public wrongs, as Sedley J said in R v Somerset County Council, Ex p Dixon [1998] Env LR 111 when considering a question of standing. A court may refuse permission to bring a judicial review claim i......
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Land Securities Plc v Fladgate Fielder (A Firm)
...standing merely because he raises an issue in which there is, objectively speaking, a public interest. As Sedley J said in R v Somerset County Council, Ex p Dixon [1997] JPL 1030, when considering the issue of standing, the court had to ensure that the claimant was not prompted by an ill mo......
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Colin Alan Randall v Hilary Ann Jocelyn Randall
...to the issue of standing in judicial review proceedings. However, he subsequently conceded that Sedley J in R v Somerset County Council and ARC Southern Limited, Ex p Dixon [1998] Env L R 111 at page 122 and Dyson LJ in R (Feakins) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Af......
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Table of Cases
...148 (CS), QBD 311 R v Shorrock [1994] QB 279, [1993] 3 WLR 698, [1993] 3 All ER 917, CA 573 R v Somerset County Council ex parte Dixon [1998] Env LR 111, (1998) 75 P & CR 175, [1997] JPL 1030, QBD 201 R v South Eastern Railway Co (1850) 16 LT (OS) 124 530 R v South Norfolk District Council ......
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The Usual Suspects? Public Participation Under the Aarhus Convention
...in two recentcases: RvNorth Somerset District Council ex parte Garnett [1998] Env LR 91 and RvSomersetDistrict Council ex parte Dixon [1998] Env LR 111.The Modern Law Review [Vol. 66102 rThe Modern Law Review Limited also of ‘substantive legality’. Procedural legality, which concerns the ch......
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The 'Exceptionality' of Legal Aid: Affordable Access to Justice in Judicial Review
...may and often do invade private rights; it is about wrongs – that is to say misuses of public power,’ R v Somerset CC, ex parte Dixon [1998] Env LR 111 [121] (Sedley J). 27 See e.g. R (Glencore Energy UK Ltd.) v HMRC Revenue and Customs [2017] EWCA Civ 1716; Oyekan v Secretary of State for ......
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Public Interest Litigants in the Court of Session
...Sedley J) about public wrongs and the maintenance of the rule of law.5 5 R v Somerset County Council and ARC Southern Ltd ex p Dickson [1998] Env LR 111 at 121 per Sedley J. It would seem, however, that the Court of Session has so far pushed back against the public interest justification fo......