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Coronavirus restrictions: local authority enforcement powers
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Coronavirus, local authority meetings and development management
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Coronavirus, public health and coercive powers
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Coroner calls for legally binding targets for particulate matter based on WHO guidelines, urges range of bodies to take action on air quality
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Coroner highlights “Inadequate support” from council social services team in report on boy’s death
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Coroner to issue report to Government after two-year-old boy dies following mould exposure, as housing provider admits to allowing legal disrepair process “to get in the way”
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Corporate Director and Monitoring Officer who came to UK as asylum seeker in 1980s retires after 37 years at city council
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Corporate peer challenge recommends council conduct monthly ‘golden triangle’ meetings
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Cory-Wright and Harwood named new Joint Heads of 39 Essex Chambers
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Cost awards in Environmental Protection Act 1990 prosecutions
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Cost of investigations into complaints at Handforth Parish Council of Zoom fame reaches more than £85,000
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Cost of tackling homelessness putting some local authorities under “unsustainable” financial pressure, at risk of s114 notice: National Audit Office
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Costs and s21A applications
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Costs and Telecoms Code disputes
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Costs awarded against council after failed ‘secondary ticketing’ prosecution
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Costs in discrimination claims brought by litigants in person
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Costs in statutory review and judicial review claims
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Costs to councils for providing care and support for working age adults could grow to reach £17bn by end of the decade: CCN
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Could this be the end for local authority-provided residential care?
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Council "had power to indemnify" director of public health in legal claim against blogger, external auditors conclude
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