LATEST CASES

Cambridge Associates in Management v Ofsted
9 May 2013
Monckton Chambers' Ben Lask has successfully defended Ofsted in a claim for judicial review against a decision to take regulatory action against a childcare provider. The claim raised issues as to the ambit of an expert regulator's discretion, procedural fairness, and the circumstances in which regulatory action might engage a ...

High Speed Rail judgment given
15 March 2013
Mr Justice Ouseley handed down judgment today on a number of judicial review challenges to the Government's decision to proceed with a high speed rail link from London to Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. The Judge held that the Government's consultation on the property compensation scheme was flawed and the Government will have to carry out a ...

Kassie Smith in Supreme Court for air pollution appeal
7 March 2013
Kassie Smith will be appearing in the Supreme Court today acting for Defra on an appeal concerning the breach of air quality limits for nitrogen dioxide in Greater London and other zones in the UK. ClientEarth is appealing against the Court of Appeal's ...

Victims of the Magdalene Laundries finally receive a full apology
1 March 2013
The Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, has formally apologised on behalf of the State for its role in the Magdalene Laundries. Raymond Hill of Monckton Chambers has been acting pro bono for the survivors of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, seeking an apology and redress from the Irish State for its failure to prevent four Religious Orders ...

Victory for part-time judges seeking pensions
7 February 2013
O'Brien v Ministry of Justice (Council of Immigration Judges intervening) 6 February 2013 [2013] UKSC 6 (SC No 2) [2010] UKSC 34; [2010] 4 All E.R. 62 (SC No 1) [2012] 2 C.M.L.R. 25 (CJEU) The Supreme Court has delivered judgment in the long-running case about a fee-paid part-time judge seeking a pension ...

Tim Ward QC steers Iceland to Euro court victory in bank collapse dispute
29 January 2013
Monckton Chambers' Tim Ward QC has successfully steered the Icelandic Government to victory in the European courts, with a ruling yesterday (28 January) meaning that the country is not obliged to repay Britain and the Netherlands for rescuing savers in the collapsed Icesave bank. A European Free Trade Association (EFTA) court in ...

AG's Opinion in Abdulrahim in favour of the Appellant
22 January 2013
Case C-239/12 P Abdulrahim v Council The General Court of the European Union has recently adopted a number of orders declaring that there is no need to adjudicate on applications for annulment in terrorist sanctions listing cases on the basis that the names of the applicants have been removed from the lists ...

Dispute over the sale of Liverpool FC settles
11 January 2013
The high profile dispute over the sale of Liverpool FC has settled, averting a 50 day trial. The claimants, former owners Hicks and Gillett, attempted to delay the start of the trial and vary the security for costs order. They argued that they could not raise the funds to pay for the case should the trial begin in April and that the ...

CAT hands down judgment in cheese price fixing appeal
9 January 2013
On 20 December 2012, the Competition Appeal Tribunal ("CAT") handed down judgment in the case of Tesco v OFT. Tesco had appealed against a decision of the Office of Fair Trading that Tesco had participated in two separate concerted practices, referred to as the 2002 and 2003 cheese initiatives, which had as their object the restriction of ...