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Administrative law [2025] JRC 139

Neville v Bray and Ors (Royal Court : Hearing

Neville v Bray and Ors (Royal Court : Hearing (Civil) : Mowschenson : Planning) [2025] JRC 139 (23 May 2025)

The Jersey Royal Court dismissed a misfeasance in public office claim arising from planning enforcement and prosecution over unauthorized window replacements.

  • Misfeasance in public office
  • Malfeasance in public office
  • Planning permission
  • Enforcement notice
  • Retrospective application
  • Vicarious liability
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Planning law [2023] JRC 147

Brigham Young, Sovereign Hire Cars v Minister for Environment

Brigham Young, Sovereign Hire Cars v Minister for Environment [2023] JRC 147 (14 August 2023)

The Royal Court dismissed a planning appeal over a proposed car park in St Helier, holding that the scheme was a change of use and not irrationally refused.

  • Change of use
  • Planning permission
  • Policy interpretation
  • Irrationality
  • Island plan policies
  • Planning-law
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Administrative law [2022] JRC 160

W. E. (Jersey) Limited v Minister for the Environment

W. E. (Jersey) Limited v Minister for the Environment [2022] JRC 160 (08 August 2022)

The Royal Court set aside the Minister’s call-in of planning applications for a public inquiry, holding that the reasons did not satisfy Article 12(1)(a) of the Planning Law.

  • Judicial review
  • Planning permission
  • Ministerial discretion
  • Public inquiry
  • Threshold for intervention
  • Judicial-review
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Administrative law [2022] JRC 044

WE (Jersey) Limited v Minister for Environment

WE (Jersey) Limited v Minister for Environment [2022] JRC 044 (18 February 2022)

The Royal Court granted WE (Jersey) Limited leave to seek judicial review of a ministerial decision calling planning applications in for public inquiry.

  • Judicial review
  • Planning permission
  • Public inquiry
  • Procedural impropriety
  • Pre-determination
  • Judicial-review
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Administrative law [2021] JRC 173

Sutton v The Connetable of St Brelade

Sutton v The Connetable of St Brelade [2021] JRC 173 (15 June 2021)

Interim mandatory relief was refused in a judicial review over kiosk trading and a parish car park, because the balance of convenience favoured allowing development to continue.

  • Judicial review
  • Interim relief
  • Procedural fairness
  • Public law injunctions
  • Planning permission
  • Public contracts
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Administrative law

Shinzo (jersey) Limited v. Minister For The Environment

Shinzo (jersey) Limited v. Minister For The Environment [2020] 2 JLR_Note 6 (09 November 2020)

Judicial review concerning whether the Minister for the Environment lawfully dealt with planning permission under the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002.

  • Planning permission
  • Environmental regulation
  • Judicial-review
  • Planning-permission
  • Environmental-regulation
  • Administrative-law
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Administrative law [2018] JRC 098

Therin -v- Minister for Planning and Warwick

Therin -v- Minister for Planning and Warwick [2018] JRC 098 (01 June 2018)

The Royal Court remitted a planning appeal for reconsideration, finding no error in heritage, landscape, biodiversity, or Article 6 analysis, but a failure to apply policy GD1 properly.

  • Judicial review
  • Planning permission
  • Listed buildings
  • Green backdrop zone
  • Heritage protection
  • Biodiversity
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Planning law [2015] JRC 189

Whitworth -v- Minister for Planning and Environment

Whitworth -v- Minister for Planning and Environment [2015] JRC 189 (15 September 2015)

Third-party planning appeal allowed: the Royal Court held there was no sufficient justification to depart from Green Zone policy and quashed permission, except for a fence extension.

  • Change of use
  • Domestic curtilage
  • Green zone policy
  • Agricultural land protection
  • Planning permission
  • Enforcement notice
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Administrative law [2015] JRC 176

Bougeard -v- Minister for Planning and Environment

Bougeard -v- Minister for Planning and Environment [2015] JRC 176 (26 August 2015)

Third-party planning appeal over a Green Zone extension was dismissed. The court held the Minister’s grant of permission was not unreasonable.

  • Planning permission
  • Green zone policy
  • Island plan
  • Privacy
  • Amenity
  • Human rights
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Planning law [2015] JRC 111

Herold -v- Minister for Planning and Sea View Investments Ltd

Herold -v- Minister for Planning and Sea View Investments Ltd [2015] JRC 111 (21 May 2015)

The Royal Court allowed Mrs Herold’s third-party planning appeal, holding that the Minister unlawfully approved development that failed to preserve Seymour Cottage’s setting under Policy HE1.

  • Listed buildings
  • Planning permission
  • Development control
  • Interpretation of planning policy
  • Unreasonableness in administrative decisions
  • Planning-law
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