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Judge allows local plan challenge to proceed but on reduced grounds
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Judge allows reporting of case where DNA tests established that three abandoned babies were full siblings
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Judge allows urgent application by council for judicial review after it published incorrect versions of neighbourhood plans ahead of referendum
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Judge approves order to keep boy in residential accommodation at likely cost of £750k
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Judge approves placement in Scotland for 15-year-old from London, expresses concern at lack of availability in England and Wales
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Judge authorises deprivation of liberty of woman with anorexia at new placement but only while she resides there willingly
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Judge awards damages and costs after changes to council tax reduction scheme discriminated against self-employed blind man
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Judge backs continuation of ‘final’ injunction over protests at oil terminal after first annual review
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Judge backs council over vaccinations of child in care, rejecting application by father for injunction
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Judge blasts claimant lawyers for “appalling professional behaviour” in JR proceedings
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Judge blocks council bid to evict Romani family from car park site
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Judge calls for LGA and NHS urgently to devise mechanism for resolving disputes
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Judge cites special circumstances in allowing claimant to call expert witness in tender evaluation dispute
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Judge considers 18th century legislation to resolve bridleway row
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Judge considers whether local authority obliged to assess members of ‘original family’ of mother who herself was adopted
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Judge credits psychological assessment with calming of “high octane” conflict between parents and care workers
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Judge criticises ‘rolling’ judicial reviews in dispute over parking control zone: report
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Judge criticises arm’s length children’s social care company over FOI failures
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Judge criticises bundle that exceeded 1,200 pages in care proceedings case
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Judge criticises children's trust and clinical commissioning group over "wholesale failure of best interest decisions" for man with epilepsy
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