CA-2024-000740 - [2025] EWCA Civ 1375

The claimant applied for judicial review of, amongst other things, the decision of 7 November 2023. Permission was refused on the papers by a deputy High Court judge and again, following an oral hearing, by a different deputy High Court judge on 21 March 2024.

The claimant applied for permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal. Nugee LJ adjourned the application to an oral hearing. He granted permission to apply for judicial review (pursuant to CPR 52.8(5)) on two grounds, as set out at paragraph 3 above, and, subsequently, clarified that he was directing that the claim for judicial review proceed in the Court of Appeal rather than in the High Court as would normally be the case (see CPR 58(6)).