CA-2024-001773 - [2025] EWCA Civ 1057

ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KING’S BENCH DIVISION

Mr Justice Jay

Before :

LORD JUSTICE UNDERHILL

(Vice-President of the Court of Appeal (Civil Division))

LORD JUSTICE NEWEY
and

LADY JUSTICE WHIPPLE

Between:

Simon Cox and Hannah Smith (instructed by Turpin Miller LLP) for the Appellant

Catherine Rowlands (instructed by Legal Services on behalf of the Vale of White Horse District Council) for the Respondent

Tom Royston and Charles Bishop (instructed by Public Law Project) for the Intervener (1)

Julia Smyth KC, James Cornwell and Zoe Gannon (instructed by Government Legal Department) for the Intervener (2)

Galina Ward KC and Yaaser Vanderman (instructed by Independent Monitoring Authority for theCitizens’ Rights Agreements) for the Intervener (3)

Adrian Berry KC and Desmond Rutledge (instructed by Freshfields LLP)

for the Intervener (4)

Jamie Burton KC and Clíodhna Kelleher (instructed by Allen Overy Shearman Sterling LLP) for the Intervener (5)

Hearing dates: 14, 15 and 16 May 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on [31 July 2025] by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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