| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2003] All ER (D) 268 (Apr) |
| Neutral Citation: | [2003] EWHC 764 (Admin) |
| Court: | Administrative Court |
| Judge: | Richards J |
| Representation | Robert McCraken and Gregory Jones (instructed by Richard Buxton) for the claimant. |
| Timothy Straker QC and Paul Greatorex (instructed by Catherine Whitehead) for the first defendant. | |
| Philip Sales and James Maurici (instructed Treasury Solicitor) for the second defendant. | |
| Thomas Hill (instructed by Walker Morris) for the interested party. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 15 April 2003 |
Catchwords
Local government - Local authority - Members - Personal interest in matter under consideration - Exclusion from meeting - Legality of decision.
The Case
Where a local councillor had an interest in an application for planning permission relating to quarrying of gravel, his attendance at a meeting of a committee of which he was not a member would amount to conducting the business of the office to which he had been elected and accordingly, he was excluded from attending such a meeting.
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