Practice area
Judicial review of public bodies, human rights claims, regulatory and disciplinary decisions, public procurement challenges, and environmental and information law.
The appellants were Colleen McNally and her daughter Amanda McNally, whose appeals were directed to be heard together. On 26 April 2003 excise goods were seized from them at Dover: in Colleen McNally's case 3160 cigarettes, 2…
Mr William Forrest and his wife Barbara were stopped by police on the M25 motorway on 14 December 2001 while driving a Toyota Avensis car towing a trailer. The reason for the stop is not known, but the police searched the car and…
The appellant, Nigel James Watkins, was stopped by Customs officers at Eastern Docks, Dover on 10 March 2002 while driving a Daihatsu vehicle carrying two passengers, Peter Watkins and Richard Watkins. Each traveller had bought a…
The appellant, Raymond Knowles, travelled with his friend Mr Seddon from Dover to Calais in a Transit van to buy drink for the appellant's 40th birthday party and for the christening of Mr Seddon's child. Boarding the ferry late…
BAT (UK and Export) Ltd despatched a consignment of 13,000 kg of "cut rag tobacco" from its Darlington factory to the factory of an associate company in Prague for secondary processing into cigarettes, the goods moving under the…
The appellant, Robert William Batchelar, was the licensee of the Red White and Blue public house in Portsmouth, where he lived with his wife. The couple were invited to a wedding in Madrid on 8 September 2001 and drove there and…
The appellant, Specsavers Optical Group, claimed statutory interest from the Commissioners of Customs and Excise in connection with spectacles apportionment claims. The appeal followed an earlier decision of the same tribunal…
The appellant, Mrs Agnieszka Golebiewska, owned a Mercedes motor car which was stopped by Customs officers at Eastern Docks, Dover on 27 January 2000. The driver was Mr Piotr Terlecki, described by the appellant as her friend…
The appellants, Terence Frederick Hicks and Helen Hicks, carried on business in partnership as Parc Golf Centre near Newport, Gwent. In September 1997 officers visiting the premises noted that income from membership, green fees…
Bond House Systems Limited was a Castleford-based dealer in computer components, principally Intel Pentium 4 processor chips, whose business had been carried on since about 1992 by a partnership of two of its directors before…
The appellant, Mr Matthew Steven Whatnell, had moved to Spain with his wife and three children and lived there for some three months before the marriage broke down and the family decided to return to England. Shortly before…
Colgan Transport Limited owned a Scania freight tractor unit, registration M707 NBE. On 1 March 2002 its driver, Mr Patrick Michael Colgan, was stopped by Customs Officers at the UK Control Zone freight terminal at Coquelles…
The appellant, Jacqueline Cross, was stopped as a foot passenger at the Dover Hoverport on 30 January 2002, travelling with her sister, and declared 2,600 cigarettes, 1½ kilogrammes of tobacco and a case of wine. She had paid…
M was born in January 2000 in Houston, Texas, to A and B, unmarried black African Americans then living in Chicago; A had been moved to Texas by Blessed Trinity Adoptions Inc immediately before the birth for the purpose of the…
Mr Kelly holds a hackney carriage licence in Liverpool. Under section 70 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976, a district council may charge fees for the grant of vehicle licences sufficient to cover the…
Mr Darren Lee Dickinson was driving a Rover 820 off the ferry at Dover Eastern Docks on 1 July 2001 when officers of HM Customs and Excise waved him, together with four or five other cars, into a slip road. He declared tobacco…
Mr K A Frazer appealed against a decision of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, communicated on review by letter of 13 February 2002, refusing to restore to him a Renault Laguna car seized on 25 November 2001. At about 1.25…
The appellant, R J Tilbury & Sons (Devon) Ltd, trading as East Devon Shellfish, processed whelks at Exmouth in Devon, some 200 miles by road from Milford Haven. On 15 February 1996 the Sea Empress grounded at St Ann's Head…
The appellant, Miss B Hill, was the owner and driver of a Toyota Corina which was stopped by officer Bond of Customs and Excise at Dover docks on 31 July 2001 on her return from Calais. Her passenger was Mr William Kessler, an…
Broomco (1984) Ltd, formerly Anchor Foods Ltd, imported butter from New Zealand between 7 March 1994 and 8 December 1997 accompanied by certificates that it satisfied the conditions for preferential access to the European…