Practice area
Judicial review of public bodies, human rights claims, regulatory and disciplinary decisions, public procurement challenges, and environmental and information law.
The claimant, Rifat Mehmet, was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court in 1983 to 18 years' imprisonment for armed robbery and possession of a firearm. He escaped from prison in 1987 and remained unlawfully at large for some six…
The Gambling Act 2005 introduced a new licensing regime for casinos, dividing them into regional, large and small categories and capping the number of premises licences at one regional, eight large and eight small. Casinos in…
The appellant, an Afghan national born on 1 January 1979, entered the United Kingdom illegally on 2 May 2002 and claimed asylum the same day. He said he had joined Hezb-e-Islami in early 1999 as bodyguard to a Commander, a group…
The two claimants, Samantha Ramsden and Paul Naylor, were determinate-sentence prisoners released early on licence under the home detention curfew scheme in section 246 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, and each was then recalled…
The claimant, referred to as W, is a severely autistic child aged 16 who brought judicial review proceedings by his father, Mr S, a solicitor acting in person, as his litigation friend. Whitefield School in Walthamstow, a school…
Glen Bennett travelled with two companions, Andrew Eades and Hector Walters, from their homes in Sheffield to Dover, took a ferry to France and then went on to Adinkerke in Belgium to buy tobacco goods, returning through Calais…
The appellant, Dynamic Construction Ltd, appealed against a review decision of the Commissioners dated 8 August 2005 offering restoration of a Ford Transit van, registration R636 OAD, on payment of a fee of £1,150. On 16 May 2005…
On 5 December 2003 Karen Bennett and her travelling companion, Richard Grimes, arrived at Dover on a ferry from France, and Customs officers seized 24.95 kg of hand rolling tobacco, 400 cigarettes and Mrs Bennett's car, which was…
Richard Carr was a director and chief executive of TransTec Plc from November 1994 until his resignation on 23 December 1999. A chartered accountant by training, he pursued an ambitious acquisitions programme for the engineering…
The appellant traded as The Vintry, the trading name of The Vintry Wine Company Limited, a small UK wine merchant with a turnover at the relevant time of about £500,000 a year, which produced a loss in 2004 and a small profit in…
The appellant, Konstantin Darscht, was an owner-driver of a tractor unit and trailer who worked for a company called Seifert Logistics. On 4 July 2005 he collected loads at Schalchen in Austria, Ulm and Oberkirch, loading pallets…
The appellant, Ian Walton Dalziel, was stopped by H M Customs and Excise at Newcastle Airport on 26 August 2004 as he returned by air from Spain, and 7,000 cigarettes were seized from him on the footing that they were being…
The appellant, Mr H E Manning, was born on 19 April 1938 and attained the age of 65 on 19 April 2003, shortly after the start of the 2003-04 tax year. He was self-employed throughout the period from 6 April 2003 to 5 April 2004…
The appellant, Perthshire Fine Wines Ltd, applied to the Commissioners for approval of premises at 202 High Street, Auchterarder, Perthshire as a trade facility warehouse, which would permit goods to be held there in duty…
Continental Wine and Food Limited manufactured "Bali Tropical Alcoholic Drink with Caribbean Rum & Coconut flavour", a beverage made by fortifying a fermented made-wine base derived from concentrated grape juice with neutral…
The appellants were James Ashley Gibbons ("JG") and his son Richard Lee Gibbons ("LG"), both self-employed lorry and truck drivers working in and near Newport, Wales, who lived at the family home and ran their businesses…
Mr Alan Fagg, a disabled Plymouth resident living on benefits and a heavy smoker, took advantage of a newspaper offer of cheap day-trips by ferry from Plymouth to Santander in Spain, making five such journeys in early 2005. On 13…
The appellant, Prudential Assurance Company Limited, the representative member of the Prudential UK VAT group, entered into a joint venture with the South African insurer Discovery Holdings Limited and its UK subsidiary Discovery…
The appellant, In Health Group SA, is a company incorporated in Luxembourg which carries on business in the UK as the representative member of a VAT group. Its subsidiary, Lister In Health Limited, provides diagnostic imaging…
The appellant, Gareth Carroll, trades as Home Improvement Co., supplying and installing conservatories from an address in Maidenhead. He was registered for VAT with effect from 1 May 2004, although he did not formally apply for…