Liverpool City Council is facing a legal challenge from Lime Technology over the procurement of an e-scooter and e-bike concession contract, it has emerged.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a dispute over whether a local authority’s duty to house homeless applicants under section 193 of the Housing Act 1996 ends by operation of law or whether the local authority is required to make a decision that the duty has ended.

Sir Keir Starmer has told the House of Commons he is "fully committed" to bringing in legislation which would force public officials to tell the truth at major inquiries, with "criminal sanctions for those that refuse to comply", after concerns were raised that the government wanted to "water down" the scope of the new Hillsborough Law.

An Ealing resident who used judicial review to ventilate “what is quintessentially a private law dispute between neighbours about actual or potential acts of trespass and alleged antisocial behaviour”, has lost her case over the construction of a parking crossover.

The appointment of six Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal has been approved.

The High Court has dismissed a judicial review claim against a decision by the NHS in Wales to restructure the deployment of its Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service (EMRTS).

The London Borough of Hackney has avoided the risk of contempt proceedings against its chief executive by carrying out disrepair works that were the subject of a court order with a penal notice.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has added a point of “clarification” to its interim update on the practical implications of the Supreme Court’s judgment on the definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010, in relation to the provision of single sex toilets in the workplace.

National law firm Weightmans has strengthened its fraud department with the hire of Kate Abrahams, previously the head of intelligence and data analytics at DAC Beachcroft, as a consultant.

An application for permission to appeal has been lodged at the Supreme Court on behalf of a 12-year-old boy, who brought a judicial review against the North Central London Integrated Care Board (ICB) in relation to his health care plan.

Parliament cannot have intended that an otherwise lawful offer of accommodation by a local authority could be invalidated for lack of an assessment under section 189A(1) of the Housing Act 1996, the Court of Appeal has found.

A local authority cannot take into account that a qualifying young person is being provided with, or might be provided with, National Asylum Seeker Service (NASS) accommodation under s95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 when deciding whether there are exceptional circumstances for the purposes of s24A(5) of the Children Act 1989, the High Court has ruled.

The High Court has told Havering Council to reconsider its decision not to identify an illegal landfill as 'contaminated land', after raising concerns that the London borough appeared "to have been very confused about the correct legal approach" to the site.

The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal by a local authority over the refusal of a Family Court judge to make a care order in respect of a girl, who is rising 2.

A Family Court judge has said he was "inexorably led" to the finding that North Yorkshire Council should be the designated local authority for a one-year-old child who is subject to a care order, despite the council insisting that Birmingham City Council should remain the designated authority.

When the expert exceeds Legal Aid Agency rates, what is the Court to do? Eleanor Hull analyses an important recent ruling from the President of the Family Division.

The High Court has rejected a claim that a girl should not have been permanently excluded from school because her Article 4 ECHR rights were infringed.

The High Court has granted an interim injunction against siting residential homes or caravans on a patch of rural land after Tunbridge Wells Borough Council raised fears that the site was about to be occupied without planning permission.

The High Court has given its reasons for refusing an injunction application aimed at curbing future protests by trans rights campaigners who had previously staged a four-day protest outside the Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) London offices.

A London borough took a “leisurely” approach to a disrepair case even though an accompanying court order carried a penal notice naming its chief executive, Mr Justice Rajah has said in the High Court.

The High Court has taken the rare step of ordering a local authority to delete land from a village green register in a case brought by a school against Bristol City Council and a local campaigner.

Campaign Group Transport Action Network has won a Court of Appeal case over whether it was lawful for the Secretary of State for Transport to reduce funding for measures to encourage walking and cycling.

The £14.2bn Sizewell C nuclear power station project faces legal action from a local campaign group just as Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has signalled the long-delayed scheme would proceed.

The Supreme Court has refused a school permission to appeal a ruling that the dismissal of a Christian employee constituted unlawful discrimination on the ground of religion or belief.

The Attorney-General for Northern Ireland has made a reference to the Supreme Court over whether proposed changes to Northern Ireland's Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Code of Practice that differ from the approach set out in the landmark Cheshire West ruling nevertheless satisfy Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the right to liberty).

A High Court judge has refused civil liberties organisation Liberty permission for a legal challenge against the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) over the lawfulness of its consultation on an updated Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations.

Juliet Wells, whose practice spans public law, group litigation, commercial law, international law, public inquiries, and costs and litigation funding, has joined 11KBW from Temple Garden Chambers.

Practical and effective measures must be taken by those within the legal profession with individual leadership responsibilities and by those with the responsibility for regulating the provision of legal services to ensure that artificial intelligence is not misused in litigation, a Divisional Court has warned.

Hartlepool Borough Council has been criticised by a judge for an “utterly contemptuous” response to a case brought by a resident over the positioning of a dustbin.