Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2009] All ER (D) 101 (Dec)
Neutral Citation: [2009] EWHC 3283 (Admin)
Court: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (London)
Judge:

Owen J
Representation The claimant appeared by its representative.
  The defendant did not appear and was not represented.
  David Matthias QC appeared for the interested party.
Judgment Dates: 10 December 2009

Catchwords

Rates - Payment of rates - National non-domestic rates - Company being made subject to liability orders relating to unpaid national non-domestic rates - Request to state a case being refused by district judge - Whether judge erring in respect of his refusal to state a case - Whether substantive grounds forming part of company's case made good - Pt III - Non-Domestic Rating (Collection and Enforcement) (Local Lists) Regulations 1989, SI 1989/1058.

The Case

Rates Payment of rates. The Administrative Court held, in dismissing the instant application for judicial review, that the decision of the district judge in the defendant court to make three liability orders, under PtIII of the and the Non-Domestic Rating (Collection and Enforcement) (Local Lists) Regulations 1989, SI1989-1058, against the claimant company, in respect of its fibre optic network, and the judge's decision not to state a case in relation to that matter, was not in error.

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