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The Court of Appeal has made a test-case ruling that limits the powers of local authorities to reject accommodation applications from homeless refugees.

A traveller who claims to have a cultural aversion to bricks and mortar, despite previously owning a house for 10 years, has failed in her High Court bid to remain…

Plans for the radical redevelopment of Oxford’s Westgate Shopping Centre may now go ahead after the High Court ordered the First Secretary of State to rethink his refusal of permission…

A Fritton farm owner has failed in his challenge to the High Court’s rejection of his damages claim against Lord Somerleyton and others in respect of the flooding of his…

The residents of two villages near Abergavenny and Wrexham today won a High Court ruling that they should have sewers installed near their homes for the first time.

The future of an Oxford shopping complex is at the centre of a High Court dispute between Oxford City Council and the deputy prime minister, John Prescott.

The proprietors of Folkestone Harbour today won a test-case challenge to a High Court ruling that they were 25% liable, under the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1984, for an incident in…

An objector to a waste landfill near Wareham, Dorset, has brought a High Court challenge, claiming that a number of protected species in the area are under threat.

Estate agent Day Morris Associates has won its appeal for commission of £17,500 for selling a £700,000 London property jointly owned by Carol and Rodney Voyce.

A Newham landlord has failed in his challenge to a compulsory purchase order by Newham London Borough Council. The council had ordered that Terry Peart’s vacant, derelict property should be…

The Court of Appeal has given permission for an Ealing landlord to challenge a Brentford County Court preliminary ruling made in September 2002.

The High Court has given new guidance relating to the required burden of proof for a conviction of felling trees without a licence issued by the Forestry Commission under section…