CA-2024-002732 - [2025] EWCA Civ 958

ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KING’S BENCH DIVISION

PLANNING COURT

THE HONOURABLE MRS JUSTICE LANG DBE

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Before:

LADY JUSTICE ANDREWS

LORD JUSTICE LEWIS
and

LADY JUSTICE ELISABETH LAING

Between:

Piers Riley-Smith (instructed by Richard Buxton Solicitors) for the Appellant.

Zack Simons KC (instructed by Government Legal Department) for the First Respondent.

Lord Banner KC and Matthew Henderson (instructed by CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP) for the Second Respondent.

Paul Stinchcombe KC (instructed by Knights Professional Services Limited) for the Third Respondent.

The Fourth Respondent did not appear and was not represented.

Hearing date: 11 July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 23 July 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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