UTIAC (i) Neither s.18, nor any other provision in the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (‘the 2007 Act’), nor any provision in the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008 gives the Upper Tribunal a discretionary power to transfer to the High Court a case which has been begun in the Upper Tribunal. Where a … Continue reading B, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for The Home Department (Rule 33A Jr Amendments and Transfers) (IJR): UTIAC 15 Mar 2016
The decision of the First-tier Tribunal did not involve the making of an error on a point of law under section 12 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007. Citations: [2020] UKUT 152 (AAC) Links: Bailii Jurisdiction: England and Wales Health Updated: 31 December 2022; Ref: scu.652185
The appeal is allowed. The decision of the First-tier Tribunal on the papers on 31 October 2019 under reference EH935/1900089 involved the making of an error of law and is set aside. Acting under section 12(2)(b) of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, I remake the decision in terms that the claim is to … Continue reading F v Responsible Body of School W: UTAA 6 Apr 2020
G was a prisoner who was refused permission by the Home Secretary to consult a solicitor with a view to bringing libel proceedings against a prison officer. The court construed article 6 of ECHR, which provides that ‘in the determination of his civil rights . . everyone is entitled to a fair . . hearing’, … Continue reading Golder v The United Kingdom: ECHR 21 Feb 1975
UTTC TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007COMPENSATION – compulsory purchase – value of land taken – severance and injurious affection – valuation – comparables – disturbance – Land Compensation Act 1961 section 5, rules (2) and (6); Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 section 7 – compensation determined at pounds 544,400 Citations: [2011] UKUT 18 (LC) Links: … Continue reading East Cheshire Council, Re Heawood Hall Cottage: UTTC 14 Jan 2011
UTAA The claimant’s appeal to the Upper Tribunal is allowed. The decision of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne First-tier Tribunal dated 30 January 2009 involved an error on a point of law and is set aside. It is appropriate for the Upper Tribunal to re-make the decision on the claimant’s appeal against Newcastle City Council’s decisions dated 8 … Continue reading SD v Newcastle City Council: UTAA 17 Aug 2010
The court was asked as to the lawfulness of the Secretary of State making deductions from ongoing social security benefit to recover the overpayment of incapacity benefit and the repayment of a social fund budgeting loan during the moratorium period of a debt relief order. Held: The Secretary of state could not deduct the sums … Continue reading Payne and Another, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: Admn 26 Jul 2010
The statutory mechanism for commercial rent arrears recovery was not the equivalent of the old common law right to distrain for arrears of rent. Levying distress under the old common law right was an unequivocal recognition that the lease was continuing on the day of distress itself. Whether the exercise of the new statutory mechanism … Continue reading Thirunavukkrasu v Brar and Another: ChD 24 Sep 2018
COMPENSATION – COSTS – certificate of appropriate alternative development – whether the Upper Tribunal has power to award costs in an appeal under s.18, Land Compensation Act 1961 – whether proceedings for compensation for compulsory purchase – s.29, Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 – rule 10(6)(a), Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) (Lands Chamber) Rules 2010 … Continue reading Leech Homes Ltd v Northumberland County Council: UTLC 26 Nov 2020
UTLC LANDLORD AND TENANT – APPOINTMENT OF MANAGER – enforcement of FTT’s order requiring provision of documents and computer records – whether order complied with – whether order should be set aside – jurisdiction of Upper Tribunal in relation to enforcement of final orders of FTT – s.24(4), Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 – s.25, … Continue reading Coates v Marathon Estates Ltd: UTLC 1 Feb 2018
LANDLORD AND TENANT – FTT PROCEDURE – whether applicant entitled to appoint a lay representative to conduct tribunal proceedings on its behalf – whether ‘conduct of litigation’ before the FTT a reserved legal activity – whether lay representative an exempt person – s.22, Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 – ss. 13, 14, 18 Legal … Continue reading Buttercup Buildings Ltd v Avon Estates (London) Ltd and Others: UTLC 10 Dec 2020
The claimants said that they had been tortured by Saudi police when arrested on false charges. They sought damages, and appealed against an order denying jurisdiction over the defendants. They said that the allegation of torture allowed an exception to state immunity. Held: The Kingdom’s appeal succeeded. The protection of state immunity was essentially a … Continue reading Jones v Ministry of Interior for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and others: HL 14 Jun 2006
Preserving findings of fact (1) Whether and, if so, when the Upper Tribunal should preserve findings of fact in a decision of the First-tier Tribunal that has been set aside has been considered by the Higher Courts in Sarkar v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWCA Civ 195, TA (Sri Lanka) v … Continue reading AB (Preserved FTT Findings; Wisniewski Principles) Iraq: UTIAC 11 Aug 2020
No Condemnation Without Opportunity For Defence Ridge, a Chief Constable, had been wrongfully dismissed without being given the opportunity of presenting his defence. He had been acquitted of the charges brought against him, but the judge at trial had made adverse comments about his behaviour. He now accepted that he should leave, but sought to … Continue reading Ridge v Baldwin (No 1): HL 14 Mar 1963
Citations: [2018] ScotCS CSIH – 6 Links: Bailii Jurisdiction: Scotland Scotland Updated: 05 April 2022; Ref: scu.605899
(1) What emerges from the guidance in Cancino (costs – First-tier Tribunal – new powers) [2015] UKFTT 59 (IAC) is that the power to award costs in rule 9 of the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Rules 2014 and rule 10 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008 is to be … Continue reading Thapa and Others (Costs: General Principles; S9 Review): UTIAC 16 Jan 2018
Citations: [2018] ScotCS CSIH – 60 Links: Bailii Jurisdiction: Scotland Immigration Updated: 01 April 2022; Ref: scu.622435
(1) Before it has re-made the decision in an appeal, pursuant to section 12(2)(b)(ii) of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, the Upper Tribunal has jurisdiction to depart from, or vary, its decision that the First-tier Tribunal made an error of law, such that the First-tier Tribunal’s decision should be set aside under section … Continue reading AZ (Error of Law: Jurisdiction; PTA Practice): UTIAC 5 Jul 2018
Application for permission to appeal from a decision of the Upper Tribunal Lands Chamber, itself on appeal from a decision of the Land and Leasehold Valuation Tribunal for the Wales Rent Assessment Committee. There are two issues on this application. First, does the second appeal test set out in the Appeals from the Upper Tribunal … Continue reading Clarise Properties Ltd v Rees and Another: CA 29 Jul 2015
1. By virtue of rules 45 and 46 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008 a condition precedent to a review is an application for permission to appeal against the decision of the Upper Tribunal. 2. Pursuant to s.10 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, rules 45 and 46 make no provision … Continue reading AA (Upper Tribunal – Review Power) Uzbekistan: UTIAC 1 Jun 2015
The First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) (‘the FTT’) does not itself have enforcement powers, but its decisions can potentially be enforced through Court mechanisms, notably pursuant to section 176C of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (‘the 2002 Act’) or section 27 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (‘the 2007 Act’). The issue … Continue reading Termhouse (Clarendon Court) Management Ltd v Al-Balhaa: CA 10 Dec 2021
The union appellant challenged the validity of the imposition of fees on those seeking to lay complaints in the Employment Tribunal system. Held: The appeal succeeded. The fees were discriminatory and restricted access to justice. The consequence of the order had been very substantially to reduce the number of cases coming before the tribunal, and: … Continue reading Unison, Regina (on The Application of) v Lord Chancellor: SC 26 Jul 2017
Costs — s 29 Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 — Tribunal Procedure Rule 10 — Refusal by HMRC of Appellant’s request to call two named HMRC officials as witnesses — Whether HMRC thereby ‘acted unreasonably in . . defending . . the proceedings’ — In the circumstances of the case, no — Application for … Continue reading Letts v Revenue and Customs: FTTTx 22 Jul 2014
Same Sex Partner Entitled to tenancy Succession The protected tenant had died. His same-sex partner sought a statutory inheritance of the tenancy. Held: His appeal succeeded. The Fitzpatrick case referred to the position before the 1998 Act: ‘Discriminatory law undermines the rule of law because it is the antithesis of fairness. It brings the law … Continue reading Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza: HL 21 Jun 2004
Discrimination – Shifting Burden of Proof (Preliminary Ruling) A woman was employed as a speech therapist by the health authority. She complained of sex discrimination saying that at her level of seniority within the NHS, members of her profession which was overwhelmingly a female profession, were appreciably less well paid than members of comparable professions … Continue reading Enderby v Frenchay Health Authority and Another: ECJ 27 Oct 1993
Equitable Interpleader Equitable Interpleader – Enforcement – controlled goods – interpleader – equity – common law – Civil Procedure – Rules of Supreme Court – title to goods – third party – Writ – High Court Enforcement Officers Victoria McCloud M [2018] EWHC 219 (QB) Bailii Civil Procedure Rules 85.4 85.5, Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement … Continue reading Celador Radio Ltd v Rancho Steak House Ltd (Equitable Interpleader – Enforcement): QBD 16 Feb 2018
The appellant’s daughter had been stopped entering the country with andpound;150,000 in cash. The police sought an order for its forfeiture, suspecting a link with terrorism. The magistrates found no evidence of such, and declined to make the order, but equally refused to award the defendant her costs. She now appealed against the refusal to … Continue reading Perinpanathan, Regina (on The Application of) v City of Westminster Magistrates Court and Another: CA 4 Feb 2010
The respondent had issued bonds but in 2001 had declared a moratorium on paying them. The appellant hedge fund later bought the bonds, heavily discounted. Judgment was obtained in New York, which the appellants now sought to enforce against assets in the UK. They argued that the terms of issue waived state immunity. Held: The … Continue reading NML Capital Ltd v Argentina: SC 6 Jul 2011
The claimant appealed against the refusal of the defendant to remove his name from the list of those barred from working with children. He had been a GP. Though not priosecuted for any criminal offence the Professional Conduct Committee had found his misconduct proved and he had been suspended from the Medical register for twelve … Continue reading Sarfraz v Disclosure and Barring Service: CA 22 May 2015
LRA Costs : Parties Without Representation – Litigants in person – entitlement to costs and expenses; Litigants in Person (Costs and Expenses) Act 1975, s 1(1), (2); Civil Procedure Rules: CPR 2.3(3), 48.6(1) – . .
The court was asked whether the supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court, exercisable by way of judicial review, extends to such decisions of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) and the Upper Tribunal (UT) as are not amenable to any . .
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