CA-2024-002382 - [2025] EWCA Civ 1041

Fecha: 30-Jul-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWCA Civ 1041

Case No: CA-2024-002382

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)

ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KING’S BENCH DIVISION

PLANNING COURT

MRS JUSTICE LIEVEN

[2024] EWHC 2024 (Admin)

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 30/07/2025

Before :

LORD JUSTICE LEWIS

LADY JUSTICE FALK
and

LORD JUSTICE HOLGATE

Between :

The King (on the application of Smar Holdings Limited)

Claimant/

Respondent

- and -

Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	Defendant/Appellant

Zack Simons KC and Edward-Arash Abedian (instructed by Government Legal Department) for the Appellant

Hugh Richards and Jessica Allen (instructed by Jury O'Shea LLP) for the Respondent

Hearing dates : 18 June 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.00am on 30 July 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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