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Local government legal highlights: judicial review, planning reforms (PIA 2025, s106/s73), NNDR multipliers, procurement, education, social housing, social care, taxi licensing, highways—15 January 2026

Published on: 15 January 2026

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Children's social care
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Children's social care

Court of Appeal allows appeal regarding interim relief in age assessment case (DCC v R (on the application of UYR)

In Derby City Council v R (on the application of UYR), the Court of Appeal upheld Derby City Council’s (DCC’s) challenge to an interim relief order made within judicial review proceedings. Although the first ground was dismissed, the second ground succeeded. The court determined the judge had erred ‘in considering that the provision of accommodation by Manchester City Council was precarious, and [the judge] ought to have held there was no real risk that the claimant would cease to be accommodated as a child pending resolution of the judicial review proceedings’, with the result that the balance of convenience did not favour granting interim relief against DCC. The decision delivers a detailed examination of the governing principles and case law on interim relief in judicial review, with particular emphasis on interim relief in age assessment matters...

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