Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2012] All ER (D) 105 (Feb)
Court: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (London)
Judge:

Kenneth Parker J (judgment delivered extempore)
Representation Timothy Jones (instructed by the Community Law Partnership) for the claimant.
  Robin Green (instructed by Legal Services Department, London Borough of Hackney) for the authority.
Judgment Dates: 15 February 2012

Catchwords

Local authority - Caravan sites - Provision of caravan sites - Claimant being Irish traveller - Claimant seeking pitch on authorised traveller site - Claimant experiencing difficulties applying for and remaining on authority's waiting list - Whether authority's policy irrational.

The Case

Local authority Caravan sites. The Administrative Court, in dismissing the claimant's application for judicial review, held that the defendant local authority's policy for the allocation and pitches on sites authorised and designated for use by the traveller community was not irrational.

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