The Secretary of State had the right to take account of a foreign criminal conviction against property, when assessing the fitness of a Estate Agent to act as such, even though the offence also took place before the Act came into effect. The statute had been introduced to protect the public against the activities of fraudulent or dishonest or violent estate agents.
Judges:
Beldam LJ, Kennedy and Aldous LJJ
Citations:
Gazette 17-Sep-1997, Times 03-Oct-1997, [1997] EWCA Civ 2282, [1998] QB 948, [1998] 1 All ER 997
Links:
Statutes:
Estate Agents Act 1979 3(2)(a)
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – General Medical Council v Professor Sir Roy Meadow, Attorney General CA 26-Oct-2006
The GMC appealed against the dismissal of its proceedings for professional misconduct against the respondent doctor, whose expert evidence to a criminal court was the subject of complaint. The doctor said that the evidence given by him was . .
Cited – Wright and Others, Regina (on the Application of) v Secretary of State for Health Secretary of State for Education and Skills Admn 16-Nov-2006
The various applicants sought judicial review of the operation of the Protection of Vulnerable Adults List insofar as they had been placed provisionally on the list, preventing them from finding work. One complaint was that the list had operated . .
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Administrative, Consumer
Updated: 09 November 2022; Ref: scu.77822