Practice area
Judicial review of public bodies, human rights claims, regulatory and disciplinary decisions, public procurement challenges, and environmental and information law.
The claimant, Wayne Truter, a serving prisoner acting in person, was convicted of sexual offences against children in 2014 and given an extended determinate sentence, later reduced on appeal to an 11-year custodial term, and was…
The appellant, Martina Hogg, requested from Cheshire East Council (the second respondent) on 8 February 2024 copies of all current dog breeding and pet selling licences. The Council responded substantively on 15 March 2024…
The appellant, referred to as LAL, claimed personal independence payment on 31 October 2023 and was assessed by telephone on 25 January 2024. On 5 February 2024 the Department for Work and Pensions, acting for the Secretary of…
The appellant, anonymised as TRJ under a rule 14 order, claimed Personal Independence Payment on 10 November 2022. On 3 October 2023 a decision-maker for the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions scored her at nil points for…
Mr Yitzchok Feiner and his partner were joint claimants for Universal Credit. They had eight children, one of whom, Z, received the middle rate of the care component of disability living allowance. Mr Feiner provided Z's care and…
Car Service Hamzaj Ltd appealed to the First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber), Pensions jurisdiction, against a decision of the Pensions Regulator. The appeal was lodged using the GRC1 form on 26 May 2026, but the…
The claimant, SA, is an asylum seeker who claims to have been a child at the time of his application, and who brought a claim for judicial review against Pembrokeshire County Council. His personal circumstances are intimately…
The claimant, AHA, is an asylum seeker who applied for judicial review against the City and County Council of Cardiff. Two Home Office officers had independently assessed the claimant's age, treating him as an adult in accordance…
The claimant, Mr Peart, is a sheep farmer who holds grazing rights, known as "stints", over Burnhope Moor, an area of rough upland grassland in County Durham designated as a Special Area of Conservation and a Special Protection…
The appellant, Jerzy Wesolowski, traded as "Uslugi Transportowe", a Polish transport business. On 3 April 2017 Border Force officers stopped a 7.5 tonne lorry owned by the appellant at Dover Eastern Docks, driven by his employee…
The claimants — Bayswater Support Group, a company limited by guarantee representing some 800 parents and guardians of children who identify as trans or non-binary, Keira Bell, who has personal experience of treatment for gender…
The claimant, born in 1985, is a Category A prisoner at HMP Whitemoor serving life imprisonment for the murder of a police officer in November 2005, with a minimum tariff not expiring until November 2040, and a concurrent…
The claimant, Dr Dean Patterson, is a consultant general physician with an interest in cardiology, registered with the GMC and based in Guernsey, where he provided secondary care through the Medical Specialist Group LLP. He is of…
The appellant, Patrice Vernon, became a registered nurse in March 2015. In January 2019 she began a 12-month postgraduate Specialist Community Public Health Nursing course at Buckingham New University, placed with and employed by…
The Council of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne obtained an injunction against the defendant, Mr Peter Hellens, on 1 May 2026. Its material term prohibited him from entering the area outlined in red on the map attached to the…
The claimants are passengers and crew of British Airways flight BA149, who allege they were detained and mistreated by Iraqi troops following the invasion of Kuwait on 1–2 August 1990. They sued the Cabinet Office, the Foreign…
The claimant, Maidstone Borough Council, applied to commit the defendant, Fred King, for contempt of court arising from breaches of two injunctions concerning land known as Warren Lands at Sandway, Maidstone, whose lawful use is…
Oxfordshire County Council is the highway authority for most highways in the county, in which the surface of the highway vests under section 263 of the Highways Act 1980. From August 2025 individuals, some identified and some…
The Royal Mint Court Residents' Association ("RMCRA") represents the families and businesses occupying the 100 leasehold properties at St Mary Graces Court, built in 1987 for key workers and lying within the same freehold title…
Greystoke CB Limited applied to Cherwell District Council for outline planning permission for up to 140,000 sqm of employment floorspace (use class B8), with ancillary offices, servicing and infrastructure, on agricultural land…