Our Public Law team were recently awarded ‘Public Law Team of the Year’ at the 2020 Wales Legal Awards.

Here are a few of their reported cases:

• Re Sarika Angel Watkins-Singh v The Governing Body of Aberdare Girls’ High School & Rhondda Cynon Taf Unitary Authority – [2008] EWHC 1865 (Admin) – School Uniform
• R (on the application of Roberts) v The Welsh Ministers (2011) EWHC 3416 (admin) – School Closure.
• R (on the application of Flatley) v Hywel Dda UHB  [2014] EWHC 655 (Admin) – Hospital closure/downgrade
• R (On the application of Thomas) v Hywel Dda University Health Board [2014] EWHC 4044 (Admin); (2015) PLLR 018 – Hospital closure/downgrade
• R (On the application of Tilley) v Vale of Glamorgan Council [2015] All ER (D) 64 (Nov) – Library Closure.
• R (On the application of Edwards) v Flintshire County Council [2016] EWHC 459 (Admin) (2016) E.L.R 208 – School Closure
• R (On the application of Tilley 2) v Vale of Glamorgan Council (2016) EWHC 2272, Law Society Gazette, 16 January 2017 – Library Closure
• R (On the application of LB) v Independent Appeals Panel of Newport City Council (2017) EWHC 2216 (Admin) – School Exclusion
• Page, R (On the Application Of) v Darlington Borough Council (2018) EWHC 1818 – Library Closure
• WX, R (On the Application Of) v Northamptonshire County Council, QBD – Administrative Court [2018] EWHC 2178 (Admin) – Library Closures
• R (on the application of DJ) v Welsh Ministers QBD (2018) EWHC 2735 (Admin) – Specialist Further Education
• R on the application of Shane Williams v Caerphilly County Borough Council [2019] EWHC 1618 (Admin); [2019] 6 WLUK 352- Leisure Centre Closure
• R (DJ) v Welsh Ministers [2019] EWCA 1349- Court of Appeal- Specialist Further Education
• R (Driver) v Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council [2020] EWHC 2071 (Admin)- School & Sixth Form Closures/Reorganisation
• R (ZK) v London Borough of Redbridge [2020] EWCA Civ 1597, [2020] 12 WLUK 2 – Court of Appeal – Special Educational Needs