England and Wales Case Law

Geocare Services Ltd, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Home Department

Geocare Services Ltd, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Home Department [2025] EWHC 3446 (Admin) (11 December 2025)

Permission for judicial review and interim relief were refused after the High Court upheld the immediate revocation of a sponsor licence for salary underpayment breaches.

• Sponsor licence revocation
• Judicial review
• Public law discretion
• Salary requirements for sponsored workers
• Compliance with immigration rules
• Sponsor-licence-revocation

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Band, R. (On the Application Of) v The Secretary of State for Work And Pensions

Band, R. (On the Application Of) v The Secretary of State for Work And Pensions [2025] EWHC 3108 (Admin) (25 November 2025)

Judicial review of a child support reimbursement decision. The High Court held the CMS failed to consider supersession properly, but relief was refused under s31(2A).

• Judicial review
• Child support
• Supersession of decisions
• Reimbursement of overpayments
• Public law discretion
• Judicial-review

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Robles, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Lewisham

Robles, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Lewisham [2025] EWHC 2745 (Admin) (24 October 2025)

The High Court refused judicial review of Lewisham’s housing allocation decision, holding the council lawfully reassigned the claimant’s Band 4/3 date under its 2022 scheme.

• Housing allocation schemes
• Statutory overcrowding
• Judicial review of local authority decisions
• Public law discretion
• Housing-allocation-schemes
• Statutory-overcrowding

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North Yorkshire Council v Boyce & Anor

North Yorkshire Council v Boyce & Anor [2025] EWHC 611 (KB) (14 March 2025)

The High Court held that income from harbour land, including car parks and leases, must be credited to the harbour account, and that the disputed plots form part of the harbour undertaking.

• Harbour authority accounting
• Statutory undertakings
• Public law discretion
• Revenue allocation
• Incidental powers
• Ring-fencing of municipal port income

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Phillip Brian Higgs & Ors v The Commissioners for HMRC

The Upper Tribunal dismissed a tax appeal, holding it was bound by Hoey and lacked jurisdiction over PAYE credit entitlement and HMRC’s section 684(7A)(b) discretion.

• Paye credits
• Jurisdiction of tax tribunals
• Statutory appeals
• Public law discretion
• Retrospective application of statutory powers
• Paye-credits

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Dinjan Hysaj v The Secretary of State for the Home Department

The Upper Tribunal upheld deprivation of citizenship on fraud grounds, rejecting delay, legitimate expectation, historic injustice, and Article 8 challenges.

• Deprivation of citizenship
• Delay and procedural fairness
• Legitimate expectation
• Historic injustice
• Article 8 echr
• Public law discretion

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Morris, R (on the application of) v Health Service Commissioner & Anor

Morris, R (on the application of) v Health Service Commissioner & Anor [2014] EWHC 4364 (Admin) (02 December 2014)

The High Court held that the Ombudsman reasonably treated a complaint about missing medical records as limited to obtaining the documents, so judicial review failed.

• Judicial review of ombudsman decisions
• Access to health records
• Interpretation of complaints
• Public law discretion
• Costs in judicial review
• Judicial-review

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W & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

The court upheld a policy allowing limited NHS debt data to be shared with government for immigration sanctions, rejecting confidentiality and fettering challenges.

• Statutory powers
• Confidentiality
• Data sharing
• Immigration sanctions
• Public law discretion
• Judicial-review

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The Police Superintendents Association of England and Wales & Ors v The Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police

The Police Superintendents Association of England and Wales & Ors v The Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police [2013] EWHC 2173 (Admin) (25 July 2013)

The High Court upheld Bedfordshire Police’s Regulation A19 policy for compulsory retirement, holding it could be used in response to budget cuts if individual circumstances were considered.

• Compulsory retirement
• Police pensions
• Public law discretion
• Statutory interpretation
• Redundancy
• Efficiency of public services

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Francis, R (on the application of) v West Midlands Probation Board

Francis, R (on the application of) v West Midlands Probation Board [2010] EWCA Civ 1470 (21 December 2010)

The Court of Appeal upheld the refusal to transfer a life prisoner’s probation supervision, holding the board could assess release-plan viability and did not breach Article 8.

• Probation supervision transfer
• Judicial review
• Article 8 echr (right to family life)
• Parole board functions
• Public law discretion
• Judicial-review

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