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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
  • Planning-law
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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
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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
  • 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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