Goodenough Ring Solicitors

The judicial review of our client, Peter Barclay, Chair of GACC, against Gatwick Airport expansion will be heard over 4 days starting 20 Jan 2026. This will be the first NSIP case under the new expedited court procedure.

GACCgatwick on X: "Peter Barclay, Chairman of the Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign (GACC), has one week ago today filed a claim for judicial review seeking permission to overturn the Secretary of State’s decision approving the expansion of Gatwick Airport. https://t.co/GN1ei34RxA" / X Peter Barclay, Chairman of the Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign (GACC), has one week ago today filed a claim for judicial review seeking permission to overturn the Secretary of State’s decision approving the expansion of Gatwick Airport. https://t.co/GN1ei34RxA

We are instructed in this important climate claim by Peter Barclay, Chair of Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign challenging the expansion of Gatwick Airport. Alex Goodman KC and Gethin Thomas also instructed. See also GACC's press release www.gacc.org.uk/resources/Pr...
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Thanks to Flora Curtis @39essexchambers.bsky.social for her hard work incl impressive closing subs for R6 Party: towerhamlets.app.box.com/s/a4o9devw2x... We amplified the community's concerns that most pressing need is affordable housing respecting culture & heritage of Brick Lane & Banglatown.

The Court of Appeal has now refused the local residents permission to appeal so this draws a line under this long running saga as to whether these school playing fields are a village green.

Inquiry Truman Estates Planning Inquirynames, dates and documents An overview of the planning applications is here with links to the planning portal and officers reports You can write to the planning insp...

Goodenough Ring Solicitors acting for the R6 Party Save Brick Lane Campaign (SBL) in a planning inquiry starting today. Counsel Flora Curtis of 39 Essex Chambers is instructed. Links to live streaming and core documents available here: sites.google.com/view/savebri...

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High Court orders the deletion of school playing… - Landmark Chambers Explore 'High Court orders the deletion of school playing fields from village green register' at Landmark Chambers for in-depth analysis and expert…

We acted for Bristol inner city state school Cotham School whose playing field was registered as a village green by local residents. That has now been overturned. Ashley Bowes of Landmark did a fantastic job in Court in this challenging case. www.landmarkchambers.co.uk/news-and-cas...

Our client was successful in the Brockwell Park claim; Richard Harwood KC and Jacqueline Lean appearing for the Claimant at short notice. Judgment is here: caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/2...

There is to be an urgent consideration of this case via rolled up hearing in the Royal Courts of Justice, the Strand on Thursday 15 May 2025 - Richard Harwood KC of 39 Essex Chambers appearing for the Claimant.

We are acting for a member of Protect Brockwell Park in this judicial review and are instructing barristers Douglas Edwards KC of FTB and Jacqueline Lean of Landmark Chambers www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...

R (on the application of The Spitalfields Historic Building Trust) (Appellant) v London Borough of Tower Hamlets and another (Respondents) - UK Supreme Court Is it lawful for a local authority's constitution to restrict voting by members on a deferred application for planning permission to those who had been present at the meeting(s) at which the applicati...

We acted for the Spitalfields Historic Building Trust - voting rights - standing orders - only 3 councillors entitled to vote at a committee meeting on controversial development on Brick Lane as a result of standing orders supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...

We acted for objectors to street tree felling in Coventry; application for urgent injunction to stop the felling was unsuccessful; the Court allowed a restrictive interpretation of the s.115 EA 2021 duty to consult before felling street trees.
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A welcome outcome for our client, Send Parish Council, protecting the River Wey and its surrounds.
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Public Service (Ethics, Integrity and Independence) Bill [HL] - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament Current version of Public Service (Ethics, Integrity and Independence) Bill [HL] with latest news, sponsors, and progress through Houses

My private member’s Bill received its first reading today in the House of Lords: you can find it here. bills.parliament.uk/bills/3924

Be warned: Deliveroo’s victory over its riders shows just how vulnerable British workers are | Callum Cant Why is the UK establishment so much more hostile to gig economy rights than other parts of Europe, asks the sociologist and author Callum Cant

Lord Hendy KC, Katharine Newton KC, Madeline Stanley of Old Square Chambers appeared for IWGB

Be warned: Deliveroo’s victory over its riders shows just how vulnerable British workers are | Callum Cant of The Guardian
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We acted for the Appellant IWUGB in the shortlisted case of the year: R (on the application of Independent Workers Union of Great Britain) v Central Arbitration Committee (Roofoods Ltd t/a Deliveroo, interested party) [2023] UKSC 43)

Para 4 bang on: 'Getting away with ‘egregious’ mistakes sets an appalling example – as does going to Court & trying – unsuccessfully as it happened – to persuade the Judge that they had consulted adequately when they manifestly hadn’t... compulsory.. conciliation & arbitration should be necessary'

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Read our update about how Plymouth City Council have decided to take themselves to court to quash the Wilmot Gardens planning permission!

Yes you read that right!

But it's not over yet, Classic Builders & PCC still want to build on the community green

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Judgment in Corby warehouse cause celebre:
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/2... Council consulted wrong residents so no objections recd to erection of storage & distribution centre at end of residents' gardens. No extension of time for j.r. Press release. hgrlaw.egnyte.com/dl/LTee4hTOrl

“We write in support of the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill 2024. Our current law does not serve to safeguard the sanctity of life. By criminalising assisted suicide, it can cause people to end their lives before they require help to do so. Our law does not protect weak and vulnerable people: it requires people to take decisions about their end of life out of sight, alone and without the help of professionals. It encourages dangerous and traumatic attempts at suicide and denies many people dignity and autonomy in how they live out their final months of life. The bill will protect the vulnerable and the sanctity of life much more effectively than our current law. It will allow terminally ill people in the last six months of their life to make free, informed and settled decisions about their end of life through a robust process involving two doctors and a judge. The bill will strengthen the role of the criminal law: assisting suicide will remain an offence other than where assistance is offered through the new formal process. New offences will also be created. There is no reason to suppose litigation will broaden the ambit of the bill: every decision of the European court of human rights and of our domestic courts has said that this is an area which is a matter for parliament in which courts will not interfere. It is time for the sake of the vulnerable, for the sake of safeguarding the primacy of human life, and for the sake of constitutional good order that the law is reformed, and that decisions about end of life are brought out of the shadows.” Screenshot from this letters page, also includes names of signatories for which I have run out of character space in this alt text - apologies (https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/theobserver/2024/nov/24/the-assisted-dying-bill-safeguards-are-essential-to-prevent-suicide)

Important intervention from senior lawyers in support of the #AssistedDying bill 👏

Including
- The Rt Hon. The Lord Etherton GBE KC (former Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice)
- Lord Falconer PC KC (former Lord Chancellor)
- Lord Ken Macdonald KC & Sir Max Hill KC (former DPPs)

U.S. blocks imports from former doTERRA frankincense supplier over forced labor The U.S. has issued a ban on imports of frankincense from a Somaliland company over forced labor practices exposed by a Fuller Project investigation.

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GRS welcomes a critical step forward for our client, Horn of Africa Charity Organisation, seeking to protect frankincense harvesting communities and the forests on which they rely from abusive practices in the supply chain of essential oil giant, doTERRA.

Thank you!

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