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Reconciling Conflicting Private and Public Interests on Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects

Reconciling Conflicting Private and Public Interests on Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects

Michael Dempseyand Catherine Johnson delve into the challenges facing the Government as they analyse the changes to judicial review set out in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

November 12, 2025

Reconciling Conflicting Private and Public Interests on Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects

News

High Court dismisses Coventry City Council challenge to asylum dispersal policy

November 14, 2025

Court of Appeal judges call time on “academic” case

November 12, 2025

Borough council resolves to take legal action over asylum hotel

November 10, 2025

District mulling legal action over plan to place refugees on army base

Nov 06, 2025

Council defeats judicial review challenge by unsuccessful bidder over sale of library building

Nov 06, 2025

Attorney General names six KCs to new Senior Treasury Counsel Group

Nov 06, 2025

Legal Services Board gives green light for CILEx fellows to be able to apply for standalone litigation practice rights

Nov 03, 2025

Council agrees £10m settlement with waste management firm

Oct 31, 2025

Court of Appeal agrees to hear Subsidy Control Act claim over £140m loans made by combined authority to developers

Oct 31, 2025

Court of Appeal says judge was wrong to terminate care proceedings at Issues Resolution Hearing in case with “dreadful history of delay”

Oct 31, 2025

Kensington & Chelsea settles judicial review claim and removes projects consultancy from list of banned suppliers drawn up after Grenfell Inquiry reports

Oct 31, 2025

FDAC is facility that should be “taken seriously” in Government campaign focussing on violence against women and girls: President of the Family Division

Oct 30, 2025

High Court finds inspectors did not err in approach to Green Belt designations for Greater Manchester development plan

Oct 29, 2025

Candidate to pay thousands in costs after failed election petition over dead heat

Oct 23, 2025

Judge finds First-Tier Tribunal ruling did not “cause or require or even permit” council to remove child from roll of special school [clarification]

Oct 23, 2025

Law Society issues practice note on conduct of litigation in light of Mazur ruling

Oct 22, 2025

Court of Appeal refuses permission to appeal village green deletion

Oct 21, 2025

Use of bailiffs by local authorities up by 30% in two years: report

Oct 21, 2025

Consultation on Liberty Protection Safeguards to be launched by Government next year

Oct 20, 2025

Cost of settling clinical negligence claims “more than tripled” in last two decades: National Audit Office

Oct 17, 2025

Law Society updates guidance on greetings to avoid gender-specific terms in legal correspondence

Oct 16, 2025

Legal Services Board calls for regulators to provide clear information in wake of Mazur judgment

Oct 15, 2025

Government call for Supreme Court to overturn Cheshire West ruling on deprivations of liberty prompts furious response from charities

Oct 15, 2025

North West council faces equal pay claims which could amount to “tens of millions”, union warns

Oct 15, 2025

Birmingham settles historic equal pay claims

Oct 14, 2025

Councillors at Welsh local authority drop judicial review over mosque plans

Oct 13, 2025

Councils secure four-year extension to oil protests injunction

Oct 13, 2025

Climate campaigners launch Supreme Court bid over local energy efficiency standards

Oct 09, 2025

Still “too many” incidences of non-compliance with Public Law Outline, Presiding Family Judge for London warns

Oct 07, 2025

It is not permissible for court to “ride two horses” by repeatedly adjourning question of jurisdiction whilst seeking to progress case as if it does have jurisdiction, senior family judge rules

Oct 06, 2025

Reform council lifts newspaper ban in face of legal challenge

Oct 03, 2025

CILEX seeks to clarify impact of Mazur ruling on litigation practice rights

Oct 03, 2025

County kicks off procurement of £2.25m framework for representation for insurance team

Oct 02, 2025

North West councils win High Court lead claims over business rates schemes

Oct 02, 2025

High Court judge issues mandatory order requiring council to provide family with accommodation near hospital where child is being treated

Oct 02, 2025

Council poised to launch judicial review over Welsh Government solar farm approval

Oct 01, 2025

Welsh council to appeal High Court quashing of second homes Article 4 direction over “misleading” officers’ report

Sep 29, 2025

Epping Forest lodges Supreme Court appeal bid over asylum hotel decision

Sep 29, 2025

Four new High Court judges named

Sep 29, 2025

Foster carers make “leapfrog” application in bid to take employment rights case to Supreme Court

Sep 26, 2025

High Court rejects judicial review challenge over faith-based oversubscription criterion within admission arrangements of school

Sep 26, 2025

Judge backs continuation of ‘final’ injunction over protests at oil terminal after first annual review

Sep 25, 2025

Council and IRO criticised for three-year delay in making application for revocation of placement order

Sep 24, 2025

Must read

Local authority legal teams after Mazur

Local authority legal teams will need to review their practices and work allocation in the wake of Mazur, but there is no need for panic writes Timothy Leader.

Local authority legal teams after Mazur

Features

Children law update - October 2025

Children law update - October 2025

November 07, 2025

Michael Jones KC rounds up the latest public law children cases of interest to practitioners.

A Lawyer’s Toolkit for Unfair Prejudice Petitions: From Pre-Action to Trial

A Lawyer’s Toolkit for Unfair Prejudice Petitions: From Pre-Action to Trial

October 31, 2025

Join Adrian Pay and Hermione Williams as they deliver the first webinar from New Square Chambers' new series.

The End of “Cheshire West”? Deprivation of Liberty, Consent and Capacity in the Supreme Court

The End of “Cheshire West”? Deprivation of Liberty, Consent and Capacity in the Supreme Court

October 30, 2025

Brett Davies looks at the issues under consideration at the Supreme Court’s recent hearing on deprivations of liberty and its landmark 2014 judgment.

Independent Social Workers and judicial review

Independent Social Workers and judicial review

October 22, 2025

Benjamin Tankel reports on a cautionary tale for Independent Social Workers in judicial review proceedings.

Navigating DOLS and 17-year-olds not in care

Navigating DOLS and 17-year-olds not in care

Oct 22, 2025

Phelps v The London Borough of Hillingdon - 25 years on

Phelps v The London Borough of Hillingdon - 25 years on

Oct 22, 2025

Challenges for a local authority prosecutor

Challenges for a local authority prosecutor

Oct 17, 2025

Placement at home under a care order

Placement at home under a care order

Oct 17, 2025

May I introduce you to proportionality: Balancing rights and responsibilities in law

May I introduce you to proportionality: Balancing rights and responsibilities in law

Oct 17, 2025

The Welsh Language and the Court of Protection

Oct 17, 2025

Anticipating the reasonableness of responses – time-specific capacity in action

Oct 17, 2025

Deprivations of liberty and young offenders

Oct 17, 2025

Litigation as stewardship: How UK pension funds including LGPS are shaping corporate accountability

Oct 10, 2025

Revisiting Cheshire West

Oct 10, 2025

Public children law case update – Autumn 2025

Oct 10, 2025

Authority to participate in legal proceedings and rights of audience

Oct 06, 2025

Risk assessment – a safeguard to fairness

Oct 03, 2025

Appealing the outcome of a fact-finding hearing in care proceedings

Oct 03, 2025

Transparency in the Court of Protection

Oct 03, 2025

Understanding part-heard hearings in civil litigation

Oct 02, 2025

Key updates to the Administrative Court Guide

Sep 30, 2025

Public Law Case Update Q2 2025

Sep 12, 2025

Respondent put to election over CCFA by High Court

Sep 12, 2025

Planning headline judgements over the summer

Sep 11, 2025

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A Lawyer’s Toolkit for Unfair Prejudice Petitions: From Pre-Action to Trial

Join Adrian Pay and Hermione Williams as they deliver the first webinar from New Square Chambers' new series.

TOLATA Update 2024

Financial Remedies Update 2024

Public Law Update

Private Law Update 2024

Covert Recordings in Private Law Proceedings

Judicial Review/Commercial Litigation

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