Listed below is a sample of cases in which members of chambers have been involved:

Hughes v Borodex Limited [2009] All ER (D) 15 (Apr) (QBD) – Landlord and Tenant – Rent Act 1977 – Long leases – statutory interpretation – Housing Act 1988 – tenant’s improvements – Leasehold Valuation Tribunal

R (on the application of A and others) v Newham London Borough Council [2009] 1 FCR 545 – Judicial Review - Adoption – Independent review panel – Suitability and matching – Local authority's adoption panel deciding claimants not suitable as adopters – Independent review panel unanimously recommending approval – Local authority decision-maker ratifying adoption panel's decision – Whether decision irrational – Adoption and Children Act 2002, s 1 – Adoption Agencies Regulations 2005, SI 2005/389, Pts 4, 5.

Re: E [2009] EWHC 597 (Admin) QBD, Admin. Court 4 March 2009 – costs in terrorism control order cases

Falmouth House Ltd and another v Rahmizadeh and others - [2008] All ER (D) 162 (Feb) (Ch.D.) – Landlord and Tenant – long leases - Leasehold Enfranchisement – valuation – estoppels

R (on the application of Chavda and others) v Harrow London Borough Council, [2008] LGR 657 Community care - Decision of local authority to restrict adult care services to people with critical needs unlawful because taken without decision-makers knowing seriousness and extent of duties which authority owed to disabled under Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

Dix v Townend and Frizzell [2008] EWHC 90117 (Costs), [2008] APP.L.R. 06/30
Costs judgment on issues of Champerty, maintenance, public policy and the definition of Insurance under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. 

Finster v Arriva [2007] EWHC 90070 (Costs), [2007] ADR.L.R. 02/07 - Costs judgment on issues in relation to alleged exaggeration of claim and proportionality.

R (Johnson and others) v Havering LBC (SS for Constitutional Affairs and another intervening) [2007] 2 WLR 1097 (CA) - Human rights - Public authority - Functions of public nature - Local authority under duty to provide accommodation for claimants - Local authority arranging for accommodation to be provided by private care home - Whether private care home exercising functions of public nature in providing accommodation - Whether transfer of local authority care home to private organisation unlawfully depriving residents of Convention rights

B Borough Council v S [2006] EWHC 2584 (Fam) [2007] 1 FCR 574 - Local authority seeking without notice relief in respect of husband's hospitalisation in home for elderly mentally infirm - Whether authority correct to issue without notice proceedings

Birmingham City Council v H and H [2006] Family Law 227 (Fam) - Test on reconsideration of earlier court findings

Rachel Gunther v South West Staffs Primary Care Trust [2005] BMLR 60 (Admin Ct) - PCT powers under the National Health Service Act 1977 to establish IUT

R (Moore and others) v Care Standards Tribunal and Commission for Social Care Inspection [2005] 1 WLR 2979 (CA) - Legal test of care home establishment

Re A Local Authority (Inquiry: Restraint on Publication) [2004] Fam 96 [2004] 1 All ER 480 [2004] 2 WLR 926 (Fam) - Inherent jurisdiction and restraint on publication of inquiry report

R(W) v NCSC Bailii 2004 ACD (Admin Ct) - Statutory appeal to court against decision of Registered Homes Tribunal - Adequacy of reasons

McKellar v Hounslow LBC Lawtel 2003 BMLR (QBD) - Registered home closure - Freestanding HRA claims - Interlocutory relief

R (Dudley) v East Sussex County Council [2003] CCLR 18 Lawtel TLR (Admin Ct)
Registered home closures - Consultation - Human rights

Re P (Parental Dispute: Judicial Determination) [2003] 1 FLR 286 (CA) - Dispute over parental selection of schools

Cowl v Plymouth City Council Times Law Report 08/01/02 [2002] 1 WLR 803 (CA)
Judicial review and alternative dispute resolution in social services cases

Cowl v Plymouth City Council [2001] 4 CCLR (Admin Ct) - Closure of residential homes - Legitimate expectation - Human rights - Judicial review

R (NAGALRO) v CAFCASS [2002] 1 FLR 255 [2001] FL 877 (Admin Ct) - Statutory procedure on introduction of terms and conditions for children’s guardians - Judicial review

R (L), R (R) v Manchester City Council Times Law Report 29/12/01 [2001] FL 923 [2002] 1 FLR 43 (Admin Ct) - Fostering allowances - Human rights - Judicial review

R v Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council ex p Watson [2001] QB 370, CA - Judicial review - local government - mental health aftercare - charges for services under s 117 Mental Health Act 1983

Greenwich London Borough Council v Grogan [2001] 33 HLR 140, CA - Secure tenancy - nuisance - suspension of order

R v Local Authority and Police Authority in the Midlands ex p LM [2000] 1 FLR 612, QBD - Judicial review - local government - disclosure of criminal allegations - human rights

R v Bath Mental Healthcare NHS Trust and Others ex p Beck [2000] 3 CCLR 5, CA
Judicial review - NHS and social services

O v Wandsworth London Borough Council: Bhika v Leicester City Council [2000] 4 All ER 590, [2000] 1 WLR 2359, CA - Immigration - human rights - s 21 National Assistance Act 1948

R v Cumbria County Council ex p Cumbria Professional Care Ltd [2000] 3 CCLR 79, QBD - Judicial review - mixed economy of community care

A National Health Service Trust v D [2000] 2 FLR 677, FD - Medical treatment - resuscitation - inherent jurisdiction - human rights

Re F (Adult: Court's jurisdiction) [2000] 2 FLR 512, CA - Mental incapacity - harm to adult - inherent jurisdiction - declarations