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Judge expresses concern at lack of suitable accommodation for vulnerable teenager in "depressingly familiar scenario"
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Judge expresses regret at ending of pilot and disbanding of team behind only Family Drug and Alcohol Court in Wales
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Judge finds £10.5m claim against council over refusal to allocate housing "totally without merit"
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Judge finds city council not at fault over death of cyclist in harbour
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Judge finds claim over procurement of cloud-based management information system for 57 schools commenced in time
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Judge finds decision by London borough to accommodate disabled man in Wolverhampton unlawful
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Judge finds family had “no lawful authority” to move elderly man to care home in Wales from Spain
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Judge finds First-Tier Tribunal ruling did not “cause or require or even permit” council to remove child from roll of special school [clarification]
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Judge finds fresh application for housing assistance did not automatically constitute abandonment of prior application that was subject to appeal
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Judge finds local authority in breach of statutory duty to complete finalised EHC plan within 20 weeks, but adjourns wider claim
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Judge finds threshold met on facts before the Court despite all parties considering it was not
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Judge finds Welsh council failed to meet public sector equality duty when deciding to close leisure centre
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Judge gives clinical commissioning group go-ahead to award elective surgery contract
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Judge gives green light for challenge to Arundel bypass decision
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Judge gives green light for judicial review challenge of planning permission for second tallest building in Birmingham
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Judge gives green light for judicial review challenge to decision by private care home provider to stop providing care services
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Judge gives green light for judicial review over common law powers of Work and Pensions Secretary
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Judge gives green light to judicial review of permission for 130-flat development amid open space concerns
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Judge gives green light to legal challenge over grant of planning permission for development on heritage coast
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Judge gives guidance on application to Court of Appeal for interim relief
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