Professor Alison Young has started today (18 March 2024) as the Commissioner for Public and Welsh Law for a period of five years, replacing Nicholas Paines KC.
A judge sitting in the Court of Protection has declined to meet the applicant in advance of a capacity hearing, over concerns that a judicial visit “may influence decision making” and cause unfairness to the parties.
Permission for a judicial review has been granted on renewal over a project on Anglesey where the developer claims to possess planning permission valid “in perpetuity”.
The Welsh Government’s decision to stop free school meals in the school holidays last year was made unlawfully, the High Court has ruled, following a legal challenge brought by two families.
The Vale of Glamorgan Council has reached a legal agreement with a consortium of developers, which restricts their ability to sell further properties at the Barry Waterfront development until community facilities are completed.
The Auditor General for Wales has called for public services in Wales to be streamlined in order to "escape from a spiral of short-term firefighting" and boost financial resilience.
The Supreme Court will next week hear a council’s appeal of a Court of Appeal judgment which overturned lower court rulings that found diminution in value in Japanese knotweed cases was irrecoverable economic loss and ordered the council to pay damages to a…
Every police force in England and Wales is to receive at least £1m to roll out so-called “hotspot” patrols targeting areas with high levels of anti-social behaviour, the Government has announced.
A report carried out by Audit Wales on governance arrangements at Wrexham Council, with a specific focus on its planning service, has found that delays in adopting key strategic documents created “significant risks” for the local authority, and relationships…
Mark Roach, Sarah Davies and Dawn Gowland review a recent High Court case where a contractor sought to enforce an adjudicator’s decision against a Welsh council.
To help schools to understand the formalities and technical issues that need to be taken into account when a pupil is permanently excluded from a maintained school in Wales, Al Hussain and Trish D’Souza have put together a permanent exclusion checklist.
The Welsh Language Tribunal has decided in favour of the Welsh Language Commissioner in a significant decision which confirms the extent to which bodies must consider the impact of their policy decisions on the Welsh language, write Daniel Taylor and Tomos Lewis.
The prospect of a single unified tribunal system for Wales has moved closer, with the publication by the Welsh Government of a white paper, entitled ‘A New Tribunal System for Wales’. The white paper provides some much-needed detail about the proposed system which will act as a basis for consultation, says Matthew Williams.
Matthew White analyses a recent Court of Appeal decision that a Welsh council should pay damages in a Japanese knotweed claim brought by a neighbouring landowner.
The Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (“the Act”) establishes a new and reformed legislative framework for Welsh local government elections, democracy, governance and performance. Victoria Searle sets out the key elements.
Welsh councils could provide more homes without environmental damage on brownfield sites if they took a more interventionist and collaborative approach, the Auditor General for Wales has said.
Wrexham County Borough Council has adopted its local development plan (LDP) following a warning from its monitoring officer that councillors could face prison if they defied a court order to approve the plan.
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has issued guidance for local authorities and towns on the establishment of the new breed of ‘Town Boards’ and development of their ‘Long-Term Plan’.