Ladd v London Borough of Bromley: CA 4 Oct 2012

The claimant had succeeded in her claim of disability discrimination against the Council in their failure to issue a blue badge for her car parking.
Held: The LA’s appeal suceeded: ‘There can sometimes be a fine dividing line between a commendable desire to vindicate individual legal rights as against a powerful public body on the one hand and intransigent obduracy on the other hand. I say nothing critical at all about the threat to issue judicial review proceedings. But once that threat had resulted in an agreed visit to Mrs Ladd’s home for assessment and the issue of a Blue Badge it seems to me that this claim,when started, falls into the second category. In the result this litigation will not only have been of no profit to Mrs Ladd. It will also have given rise to significant costs both in time and in money to the London Borough of Bromley, which financial costs in part at least will have to be visited upon the luckless local taxpayers.’

Citations:

[2012] EWCA Civ 1586

Links:

Bailii

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Discrimination

Updated: 13 November 2022; Ref: scu.470101