Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2003] All ER (D) 96 (Jan)
Neutral Citation: [2002] EWCA Civ 02
Court: Court of Appeal, Civil Division
Judge:

Aldous, Scott Baker LJJ and Sir Philip Otton

Representation Martin Westgate QC (instructed by Russell Jones) for the claimant.
  John McGuinness QC and Christopher Johnston (instructed by Winkworth Sherwood) for the defendant.
Judgment Dates: 17 January 2003

Catchwords

Administrative law - Judicial review - Availability of remedy - Police - Claimant seconded to National Crime Squad - Claimant's secondment summarily terminated - Amenability of decision to judicial review.

The Case

There was no sufficient public law element in the decision to terminate the claimant's secondment from his local police force to the National Crime Squad, on operational rather than disciplinary grounds, to warrant the intervention of the court, and the decision was not, therefore, amenable to judicial review.

Practice Areas

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