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Hillingdon v Springwell Lane Metal Recycling: High Court grants final injunction to halt unlawful scrap yard

Deputy judge orders a Green Belt scrap metal operation to cease after repeated enforcement failures.

Gable Insurance v Dewsall: Court of Appeal upholds finding that a director's excess payments were not dishonest

Appeal judges decline to disturb a trial ruling that certain payments involved no dishonesty.

Irama v Formark: High Court refuses permission to appeal and imposes a civil restraint order

Griffiths J dismisses a costs appeal as totally without merit and restrains further applications.

Goldsmith: High Court declines to compel fresh open-prison decision before Parole Board review

Deputy judge quashes refusal to move prisoner to open conditions but refuses a 21-day deadline.

R (Manby) v Hackney: planning permission quashed over failure to apply the 45-degree rule

The Planning Court quashes a Hackney extension permission after officers noted but never applied the 45-degree rule.

easyGroup v Cubico: IPEC dismisses trade mark claim against Easy Bathrooms and rejects 'easy' family of marks

IPEC dismisses easyGroup's infringement and passing off claims against Easy Bathrooms and rejects its pleaded family of marks.

R (LMN and EFG) v Work and Pensions Secretary: Court of Appeal upholds two-child limit exceptions against discrimination challenge

The Court of Appeal finds the universal credit two-child limit exceptions justified and compatible with Article 14.

GMC v Tripathi: High Court quashes GP's suspension over sexual misconduct but declines to order erasure

The Administrative Court finds serious irregularities in a tribunal's sanction but remits rather than erasing.