R (Public Law Project) -v- The Secretary of State for Justice [2014] EWHC 2365 (Admin) 15 July 2014
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPOA) 2012 Part 1 Schedule 1 lists those areas of law that remain in scope for legal aid. The Lord Chancellor proposed by the LASPOA 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2104 (‘the Order’) to introduce a residence test. All those who failed the test would be removed from the scope of Part 1 Schedule 1.
R (Gudanaviciene & ors) v Director of Legal Aid Casework and The Lord Chancellor [2014] EWHC 1840 (Admin), 13 June 2014
When the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill was passing through Parliament the Government frequently emphasised that there would be a safety net provided with regard to those areas that were going out of scope for legal aid, namely ‘exceptional funding’ (EF).
Manchester Ship Canal Developments Ltd, Peel Investments Limited -v- Persons Unknown, Crane and Others [2014] EWHC 645 CH, 10 March 2014
This is not a Gypsy or Traveller case.
An organisation called Igas proposed to carry out drilling activity on a piece of land. This drilling activity was to be investigatory and was for the purpose of establishing whether there were hydro carbon deposits underneath the land that were capable of being exploited using a technique known as “fracking”.
Re R [2014] EWHC 643 (Fam), 3 March 2014
This is not a Gypsy or Traveller case but a family law case.
Most (if not all) legal aid firms and organisations who provide legal aid, since the setting up of the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) in April 2013, have encountered enormous difficulties in dealing with the LAA. This case makes reference to such difficulties.
Summit Navigation v Generali Romania Asigurare [2014] EWHC 391, 21 February 2014
This case is not about Gypsy or Traveller matters but is important from the point of view of the line of cases following on from the Mitchell judgment on the question of compliance with Court Orders.
Most people will have heard of Andrew Mitchell MP and the ‘Plebgate’ controversy when he was alleged to have called a police officer at the gates to Downing Street a “ f*****g pleb”. Following the Sun publishing an article about this, Mr Mitchell took a defamation action.
Peace Emezie -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 733 26 June 2013
This is not a Gypsy or Traveller case but it is an important reminder on the question of costs in judicial review cases.