Cook v Southend-on-Sea Borough Council: 1989

The council had public duties to perform in the maintenance of a suitable taxi service and a policy that it was seeking to implement.
Held: It could feel aggrieved by a decision adverse to the stand it was attempting to enforce in respect of the grant of a licence. It was not essential that a legal burden should be placed upon a person by a decision for him to ‘feel aggrieved’: it was sufficient if there was a decision ‘against’ him.

Judges:

Woolf LJ

Citations:

[1990] 2 QB 1, (1989) 88 LGR 408, [1989] RVR 215, (1989) 154 JP 145, [1990] 2 WLR 61, [1990] 1 All ER 243

Cited by:

CitedWalton v The Scottish Ministers SC 17-Oct-2012
The appellant, former chair of a road activist group, challenged certain roads orders saying that the respondent had not carried out the required environmental assessment. His claim was that the road had been adopted without the consultation . .
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Administrative

Updated: 06 May 2022; Ref: scu.470548