Practice area
Judicial review of public bodies, human rights claims, regulatory and disciplinary decisions, public procurement challenges, and environmental and information law.
The appellant, Marta Baiba, was a trainee driving instructor who had been licensed since 3 March 2025. She was granted a trainee licence under section 129 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 for a six-month period, and then a second…
The Appellant was a trainee driving instructor who had been granted a trainee licence under s.129 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, which permits a candidate who has passed Part 2 of the Approved Driving Instructor qualifying…
The appellant, Neil Baldock, was an approved driving instructor and former police officer who had received commendations for public service. Following complaints, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency interviewed a young woman…
The appellant, Glynn Cross, was a trainee approved driving instructor. On 22 December 2025, while taking a pupil on a rural lesson, he became lost and used his mobile telephone to set a route; a police officer saw him using the…
The appellant, Zakya Bi Sadeeq, was an approved driving instructor whose name appeared on the Register of Approved Driving Instructors. On 30 November 2025 she used a mobile phone while driving a car and in consequence accrued…
The appellant, Paul Lewis, made a request for environmental information to Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council on 10 June 2024 concerning 5G-enabled telecommunications masts within the Council's area. The request asked how…
The appellant, Mr Matthew Illsley, was interested in an external review said to have been conducted by Hampshire Constabulary into the investigation of the 1987 murder of Ivy Batten and the subsequent prosecution and conviction…
The claimant is a member of the Save Abertridwr Library group, which has 237 members, and brought judicial review proceedings in support of that group to challenge Caerphilly County Borough Council's decision of 14 May 2025 to…
The appellant, Tyron Demmer, applied to the Registrar of Approved Driving Instructors for a third trainee licence, and the matter came before the First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber), Transport, as an appeal…
The appellant, Flavio Fellica, a litigant in person who advised the Tribunal that they are agender and asked that gender-neutral language be used, had on 5 May 2024 complained to the Certification Officer about the University and…
The appellant, Qodsia Heydari, was first entered on the Register of Approved Driving Instructors in March 2025. On 15 August 2025 she was issued with a fixed penalty notice, which she accepted, for a CU80 offence of breach of…
The appellant, Lewis Atkins, was an approved driving instructor whose name the Registrar of Approved Driving Instructors removed from the Register by a decision of 23 February 2026, on the ground that he was no longer a fit and…
The subject child, A, was born in 2025 and is represented through his children's guardian, B. Warrington Borough Council issued care and placement order proceedings on 11 December 2025, following a period of PLO pre-proceedings…
The appellant, referred to as the Father under the cipher ROE, is the non-resident parent of a child (ULY) for the purposes of the Child Support Act 1991, and the second respondent, the Mother (IAL), is the person with care. The…
TES claimed personal independence payment on 4 April 2022. Following a telephone medical assessment on 18 June 2022, the Department for Work and Pensions, acting for the Secretary of State, awarded him no points and refused the…
Mr Y and his wife, Mrs Z, have six children, referred to as A to F in decreasing order of age. The London Borough of Croydon had recorded concerns about the family for some years, but took no substantive action even after A left…
The claimant, Mr Glory Osarenren Otabor, a litigant in person, challenged a decision of the Student Loans Company Limited refusing his application for postgraduate funding. In 2023 he had enrolled as an undergraduate and received…
OLB was awarded child benefit for her child NOV in 2015. On 14 September 2023 a decision maker for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs revised that award, deciding it had been made in ignorance of a material fact — that OLB was…
The appellant, Mr A Jankauskas, claimed Personal Independence Payment on 28 June 2023. He submitted a PIP2 questionnaire dated 21 July 2023 and underwent a telephone assessment on 25 September 2023. On 29 October 2023 the…
The appellant, Ellis Coulson, was 20 years old when, late in the evening on 3 November 2023, he attacked two strangers at a BP petrol station in Leicester. In an entirely unprovoked assault captured on CCTV, he slashed Toyton…