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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Sep 2
Prisoner rehabilitation and liberty deprivations administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/p...
Prisoner rehabilitation and liberty deprivations
This case concerns prisoners’ right to access rehabilitation courses under Article 5 ECHR. In short, European and domestic case law has established that in some circumstances, where a prisoner is s…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Aug 10
Divisional Court publishes CLOSED judgment in successful challenge against exclusion from Afghan data leak relocation scheme administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/10/d...
Divisional Court publishes CLOSED judgment in successful challenge against exclusion from Afghan data leak relocation scheme
On 8 August 2025, the Divisional Court (Dingemans LJ, Chamberlain and Johnson JJ) published the OPEN version of a previously CLOSED judgment, dated 19 April 2024, in which it allowed a claim for ju…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jul 31
School sanctions: powers and duties administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/s...
School sanctions: powers and duties
The education system of England and Wales is governed by a thicket of statutory provisions. Most of these provisions have not been subjected to litigation – educators and civil servants abide by an…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jul 31
High Court green-lights challenge to Palestine Action proscription administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/h...
High Court green-lights challenge to Palestine Action proscription
The High Court (Chamberlain J) has granted a co-founder of Palestine Action (PA) permission to apply for judicial review of the Home Secretary’s decision to proscribe PA. Judgment in R (Ammori) v S…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jul 29
The UK Supreme Court’s twin approaches to appellate proportionality administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/t...
The UK Supreme Court’s twin approaches to appellate proportionality
There is a lot to unpack in this morning’s Supreme Court judgment in the joint appeals of Shvidler v Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs and Dalston Projects Ltd v …
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jul 28
Dodging ECHR duties: exceptions to the two-child benefit cap administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/d...
Dodging ECHR duties: exceptions to the two-child benefit cap
The two-child benefit cap is an intensely controversial policy brought in by the last Conservative government, and, despite some murmurings to the contrary, continues to be maintained by the curren…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jul 26
The Soneji principle and remedial discretion in judicial review administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/t...
The Soneji principle and remedial discretion in judicial review
It is a familiar principle of public law, and perhaps more generally the law relating to breach of statutory requirements, that where there has been non-compliance with such requirements in taking …
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jul 24
A Gloss on the Friends of the Earth test for what constitutes a materially relevant consideration? administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/a...
A Gloss on the Friends of the Earth test for what constitutes a materially relevant consideration?
The world of planning law once again proves itself to be a motor for the development of public law principles. This time, Lewis LJ saw a chance to develop the public law requirement on decision-mak…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jul 23
Freedom of information exemptions: cumulative or independent? administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/f...
Freedom of information exemptions: cumulative or independent?
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 created a scheme which sets up a general right upon members of the public to have information held by public bodies disclosed to them. This right is, however, su…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jul 9
The Building Services Act and the presumption against retrospectivity

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The Building Services Act and the presumption against retrospectivity
The facts of Adriatic Land 5 Limited v Long Leaseholders at Hippersley Point [2025] EWCA Civ 856 are straightforward enough. The applicant landlord owned a large building. That building needed sign…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jul 5
High Court and Court of Appeal refuse interim relief in Palestine Action proscription challenge administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/h...
High Court and Court of Appeal refuse interim relief in Palestine Action proscription challenge
The High Court and Court of Appeal have refused interim relief in Palestine Action’s (“PA”) judicial review of the Home Secretary’s decision to proscribe the organisation, following hearings on 4 J…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jun 30
ALR and others: (real) EU law and the Northern Ireland perspective administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/a...
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jun 26
Court of Appeal dismisses Liberty’s challenge against EHRC’s Code of Practice consultation administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/c...
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jun 23
ALR and others: the human rights dimension administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/a...
ALR and others: the human rights dimension
This is the second in a three-part analysis of R (ALR and others) v Chancellor of the Exchequer [2025] EWHC 1467 (Admin). In this post, I will look at the core human rights challenges in the judgme…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jun 19
ALR and others: parliamentary privilege and the haunting of Pepper administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/a...
ALR and others: parliamentary privilege and the haunting of Pepper
This is the first in a three-part analysis of R (ALR and others) v Chancellor of the Exchequer [2025] EWHC 1467 (Admin). In this post, I cover the constitutional aspects of the judgment, in particu…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jun 16
Scottish Winter Fuel Payment cuts upheld as lawful administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/s...
Scottish Winter Fuel Payment cuts upheld as lawful
The Labour Party’s decision to make changes to Winter Fuel Payment (WFP) has been intensely controversial. Interestingly, the power to grant and modify such payments in Scotland has been a devolved…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jun 13
Which Article 2 legacy inquest authorities have survived Dalton? administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/w...
Which Article 2 legacy inquest authorities have survived Dalton?
When does Article 2 ECHR apply to investigations into deaths occurring at the hands of the state? This deceptively simple question has vexed the House of Lords and Supreme Court on (more than) five…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Jun 9
High Court refuses permission in Liberty’s challenge against EHRC Code of Practice consultation administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/h...
High Court refuses permission in Liberty’s challenge against EHRC Code of Practice consultation
The High Court (Swift J) has refused Liberty permission to apply for judicial review of the EHRC’s Code of Practice consultation, commenced on 20 May 2025, following the Supreme Court’s judgment in…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · May 23
Appointment of Conservative Party leader not challengeable under Human Rights Act administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/a...
Appointment of Conservative Party leader not challengeable under Human Rights Act
When the Conservative Party elected Liz Truss to be its leader in 2022, was it exercising a “public function” for the purposes of section 6 of the Human Rights Act, and was it therefore amenable to…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · May 20
Clarifying the scope of the natural justice exception in the JRCA 2022’s Cart ouster administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/c...
Clarifying the scope of the natural justice exception in the JRCA 2022’s Cart ouster
The Court of Appeal (Underhill LJ, with whom Peter Jackson and Elisabeth Laing LJJ agreed) has handed down an important judgment delineating the proper scope of the “natural justice exception” in s…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · May 7
The deprivation of children’s liberty: the Human Rights Act exists for a reason administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/t...
The deprivation of children’s liberty: the Human Rights Act exists for a reason
Introduction It is a rare event where, in an appeal against a first instance judgment, all parties unequivocally say that the judgment was wrong. So it was in J v Bath and North East Somerset Counc…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · May 6
Good reason to depart from published policy: anxious scrutiny as a form of rationality review administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/g...
Good reason to depart from published policy: anxious scrutiny as a form of rationality review
Six months ago, I sought to make the ambitious argument that, when the Court of Appeal rejected the requirement for good/very good reasons when the Justice Secretary rejects the Parole Board’s reco…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · May 3
Seeking views on “sufficiently crystallised” proposals will not always engage Gunning requirements for fair consultation administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/03/s...
Seeking views on “sufficiently crystallised” proposals will not always engage Gunning requirements for fair consultation
The Court of Appeal (Underhill LJ, with whom Dingemans and Edis LJJ agreed) has rejected the proposition that, where a public authority voluntarily seeks the views of an interested party at the for…
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Apr 30
Limits to the UK Supreme Court’s Reach: Northern Ireland, the Windsor Framework and Trans Rights administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/l...
Limits to the UK Supreme Court’s Reach: Northern Ireland, the Windsor Framework and Trans Rights
Introduction The judgment in For Women Scotland (FWS) Ltd v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 (‘FWS’) has sent a great many sectors across the UK scrambling to find out what, exactly, they are …
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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · Apr 28
Four elements to proportionality in discrimination cases administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/f...
Four elements to proportionality in discrimination cases
In Re McCarron [2025] NIKB 23 (10 April 2025), the High Court in Northern Ireland rejected the claimant’s argument that legislation prohibiting her from receiving certain cost of living payments un…
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