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Swire v Canterbury City Council: EIA screening, park and ride capacity, and the limits of cumulative assessment

High Court dismisses judicial review of A2 slip road planning permission — [2026] EWHC 478 (Admin)

Shah Ali v General Medical Council: erasure upheld following persistent lack of insight

A doctor's removal from the medical register was confirmed after successive tribunals identified an entrenched failure to accept responsibility for two serious matters.

XY, Re: welfare deputyship, internet use and the court's ultimate authority

Internet and social media decisions fall outside standard welfare deputyship authority; the Court of Protection retains ultimate best interests jurisdiction regardless of deputy appointment.

Secretary of State for the Home Department v AB: subjective fear and the limits of deportation appeals

Deportation, Article 8, and the weight of subjective fear in relocation assessments

Zinda v Ark Schools: fraud claim to set aside judgement fails where evidence was always in claimant's possession

Setting aside a judgement for fraud requires new evidence, conscious dishonesty, and materiality — none of which were established here.

Re A, B and C: Court of Appeal upholds mother as perpetrator of non-accidental fracture in care proceedings

Witness credibility and delayed medical attention central to perpetrator finding

Employment tribunal delays are reshaping litigation strategy

Prolonged Tribunal backlogs are transforming employer strategy, settlement dynamics, and case management

Aksahin v London Borough of Enfield: passengers, car cruising injunctions and contempt of court

A passenger in a car cruising vehicle can be found in contempt of court even where they claim to have discouraged the driver, and good service of an injunction against persons unknown is sufficient to fix a defendant with knowledge of its terms.