Local Government

R (Adams) v Commissioner for Local Administration [2011] EWHC 2972 (Admin)

R (Robin Murray & Co) v Lord Chancellor [2011] EWHC 1528 (Admin), [2011] ACD 103

R (Vale of Glamorgan Council) v Lord Chancellor [2011] EWHC 1532 (Admin)

LS v Lambeth LBC [2010] UKUT 461 (AAC)

R (Devon CC) v SSCLG [2010] EWHC 1456 (Admin)

R (Forest Heath v Boundary Committee / SSCLG [2010] PTSR 1205, [2009] EWCA Civ 1296 (overturning Foskett J, [2009] EWHC 1682 (Admin), [2009] 28 EG (CS))

Bell v HMRC [2009] STI 3171

Re Kendrick, Valuation Officer [2009] RA 145, Lands Tribunal

Chilton-Merryweather v Hunt and ors [2008] EWCA Civ 1025, [2009] Env LR 16, [2008] RA 357

Refson v HMRC [2008] STC 64, [2009] BTC 195, [2008] EWHC 1759 (Admin)

Reeves (Valuation Officer) [2007] RA 168

R (Greenwich) v Secretary of State for Health [2007] 10 CCL Rep 60

Jorgensen (Listing Officer) v Gomperts [2006] EWHC 2393 Admin, [2006] RA 300

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QUALIFICATIONS

Tim was a scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

He studied law at City University, London, and subsequently undertook an LL.M in Public Law at King’s College, London, achieving distinctions in public law and jurisprudence.

He is joint editor, with Richard Drabble QC and James Maurici, of Local Authorities and Human Rights (OUP, 2004) and a contributor to Supperstone, Goudie and Walker: Judicial Review (3rd Ed, Butterworths, 2005, 4th Ed, 2010). He has contributed articles to the journal “Judicial Review”.

Tim is a regular speaker on all his areas of practice. He was a speaker in the plenary session in the prestigious Public Law Project 2011 judicial review conference, and also gave seminars at both the 2010 and 2011 conferences. He is also due to speak at PLP’s 2012 Wales conference. He has been a main speaker at HJT’s annual immigration judicial conference in every year since 2005, and gives seminars and talks for the Immigration Law Practitioners Association (including at its 2011 AGM). He has been a speaker at ALBA conferences, and has been the main author of a number of ALBA’s responses to various government consultations on reforms to administrative justice.
Tim is on ALBA’s Executive Committee and is a member of PEBA, ILPA, the HRLA, Liberty, JUSTICE, the Environmental Law Foundation and the Bar Pro Bono Unit. Prior to commencing practice he was a Research Assistant for the Bar Human Rights Committee, and undertook voluntary work for Interrights, FRU, and as an election observer in Eastern Europe.

CASES

21 Jun 2011

R (Cart) v. Upper Tribunal [2011] 3 W.L.R. 107 (Supreme Ct); [2011] Q.B. 120 (CA & Div Ct)

Key constitutional case concerning whether the Upper Tribunal is amenable to judicial review in cases where no statutory appeal is available, as was the case with the previous tribunals that the Upper Tribunal replaced.

08 Jul 2008

R (YG (Cambodia)) v SSHD [2008] EWHC 1735 Admin

The Administrative Court has ordered the release of the Claimant in this case, following 16 ½ months administrative detention under immigration powers.

01 Jan 2007

R (Imade) v SSHD

01 Jan 1998

Zarine Rentia v SSHD

INQUIRIES

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PUBLICATIONS