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Why I Wanted to Explore Intensity of Review Across the UK and New Zealand

Why I Wanted to Explore Intensity of Review Across the UK and New Zealand

Jack Trevella shares his experience of the difference in UK vs New Zealand courts on the doctrine of reasonableness.

April 01, 2026

Why I Wanted to Explore Intensity of Review Across the UK and New Zealand

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Passenger fails in appeal over finding he had breached car-cruising injunction

March 19, 2026

Police and Crime Commissioner launches legal challenge after police and crime panel censure

March 11, 2026

Go beyond public sector equality duty to strengthen community cohesion, LGA tells councils

March 11, 2026

High Court agrees car cruising injunctions should remain in Black Country and Birmingham

Mar 03, 2026

Council to use public space protection orders to tackle car cruising rather than rely on Black Country-wide High Court injunctions

Mar 03, 2026

Grooming gangs whistleblower pursues judicial review over failure by government to implement recommendations of independent inquiry

Mar 03, 2026

High Court refuses anti-abortion protester permission for judicial review over conviction

Feb 24, 2026

Councillors should be barred from sitting on Safety Advisory Groups in light of flawed football ban, MPs say

Feb 23, 2026

Institute of Licensing publishes guidance on Martyn’s Law

Feb 17, 2026

LGA calls for consolidated legal safeguards for police use of facial recognition and biometric technologies

Feb 04, 2026

Chief constable to build costs of ASB lawyers into force budget after successful pilot

Jan 26, 2026

Ombudsman criticises London borough for failure to use powers to tackle anti-social behaviour

Jan 19, 2026

City council ditches cumulative impact zone for ‘city safe area’ in new licensing approach, introduces ‘good operator policy’

Jan 16, 2026

Planning Court quashes experimental traffic regulation order intended to tackle anti-social behaviour

Jan 15, 2026

Home Secretary names chair of Grooming Gangs Inquiry and publishes terms of reference

Dec 09, 2025

London borough launches legal action against Met Police and Mayor’s Office over police front counter closure

Dec 03, 2025

Ex-Director of Public Prosecutions to lead independent review of existing public order and hate crime legislation

Nov 17, 2025

Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales, with roles to be absorbed by regional mayors

Nov 14, 2025

Council sends pre-action protocol letter to Mayor of London and Met Police over counter closure

Nov 07, 2025

Stirling University professor named Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner

Nov 03, 2025

FDAC is facility that should be “taken seriously” in Government campaign focussing on violence against women and girls: President of the Family Division

Oct 30, 2025

Fire services should be statutory consultees for major developments: council

Oct 20, 2025

Government departments issue guidance on information sharing between police and taxi licensing authorities

Oct 15, 2025

Judge backs continuation of ‘final’ injunction over protests at oil terminal after first annual review

Sep 25, 2025

Council scraps controversial Public Spaces Protection Order banning foul language in public spaces

Sep 05, 2025

Court of Appeal refuses Epping Forest permission to appeal to Supreme Court over asylum hotel interim injunction

Sep 03, 2025

High Court refuses local authority application for extension of deprivation of liberty order for 16-year-old convicted offender

Sep 02, 2025

Home Office to appeal Epping asylum hotel decision

Aug 22, 2025

Met Police use of facial recognition technology must comply with human rights law, warns EHRC

Aug 21, 2025

Car meet attendees fined nearly £15k over public space protection order breach

Aug 18, 2025

Council seeks injunction to shut down asylum seeker hotel in bid to ease community tension

Aug 13, 2025

Police should be removed from non-policing roles in schools: Liberty

Aug 06, 2025

Many local authority staff unaware of ‘first responder’ responsibilities in tackling modern slavery, report warns

Jul 28, 2025

Councillors at Epping Forest pass motions calling for end to asylum hotels in rural areas and small towns

Jul 25, 2025

Council puts forward Public Spaces Protection Order including ban on foul language

Jul 18, 2025

Best value inspection launched at fire authority with specific focus on governance

Jul 16, 2025

Crime and Policing Bill may not provide sufficient safeguards against inappropriate use of new respect orders, Parliamentary committee warns

Jul 15, 2025

5 Essex Chambers silk named Interim Biometrics Commissioner

Jul 08, 2025

High Court injunction blocks unauthorised encampments at 12 sites

Jun 30, 2025

Borough council secures £57k in costs after defeating two licensing appeals

Jun 18, 2025

Government accepts all 12 recommendations in “damning” report from Baroness Casey on group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse

Jun 17, 2025

Government sets Spring 2026 deadline for decriminalisation of rough sleeping through repeal of 200-year-old law

Jun 11, 2025

ICO launches AI and biometrics strategy

Jun 09, 2025

Features

Social housing, ASB and persons unknown injunctions

Social housing, ASB and persons unknown injunctions

October 30, 2025

Natalie Kidd looks at the potential for social housing providers to tackle anti-social behavoiur by obtaining ‘persons unknown’ injunctions.

The ‘Hillsborough Bill’ – Voices for victims or just more lip service?

The ‘Hillsborough Bill’ – Voices for victims or just more lip service?

October 22, 2025

Jonathan Blunden, Alastair Lewis and Conrad Turnock talk through the recently introduced 'Hillsborough' Bill, aimed at giving victims of state injustice a meaningful voice.

ASB Case Reviews: updated statutory guidance

ASB Case Reviews: updated statutory guidance

October 17, 2025

Daryl Bigwood looks at the key changes to the statutory guidance on ASB Case Reviews and identifies their practical implications for social landlords.

Tackling youth ASB in social housing

Tackling youth ASB in social housing

October 02, 2025

Emily Hope looks at the role of housing providers and the need to balance enforcement with engagement when it comes to tackling youth anti-social behaviour.

Civil protective orders and gangs

Civil protective orders and gangs

Sep 26, 2025

DOLS and the Young Offender: Care or Custody?

DOLS and the Young Offender: Care or Custody?

Sep 17, 2025

Imposing the brakes on car cruising

Imposing the brakes on car cruising

Sep 11, 2025

Epping Forest in the Court of Appeal

Epping Forest in the Court of Appeal

Sep 03, 2025

The Housing Ombudsman on ASB

The Housing Ombudsman on ASB

Aug 01, 2025

Closure orders and the need for fairness

Apr 30, 2025

Closure orders and Article 6 ECHR

Apr 01, 2025

The future of managing and preventing anti-social behaviour

Apr 01, 2025

What the Crime and Policing Bill has in store

Mar 21, 2025

New horizons for selective licensing schemes

Mar 05, 2025

Respect Orders - what do we know?

Mar 05, 2025

Positive requirements in ASB injunctions

Dec 04, 2024

Criminalising thought crime?

Nov 15, 2024

Social housing and contempt of court

Aug 07, 2024

Public disorder and possession

Aug 07, 2024

The meaning of 'anti-social behaviour'

Jun 21, 2024

Body worn camera footage

Feb 23, 2024

Dingers and anti-social behaviour

Feb 08, 2024

ASB qualifying criteria and housing allocation policies

Feb 02, 2024

Public space protection orders and abortion clinic “safe zones”

Dec 20, 2023

Webinars

The A to Z of Housing Discrimination Case Law - Akerman-Livingstone v Aster

Iris Ferber KC and Karolina Zielinska start at “A”: Akerman-Livingstone v Aster Communities, heard by the Supreme Court in 2015.

The A to Z of Housing Discrimination Case Law: Paragon Housing v Neville

The A to Z of Housing Discrimination Case Law: Nightingale v Bromford Housing

The A to Z of Housing Discrimination Case Law: Laidley v Metropolitan Housing Trust

Awaab’s Law and Fitness for Human Habitation – the same, but different?

Homelessness and Social Housing Allocations (Wales) Bill: all change?

The Empty Homes Crisis

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