Charity
Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and others v Derby City Council and others (Charity Commission for England and Wales intervening) [2019] EWHC 3436 (Ch), [2020] All ER (D) 58 (Jan)
The lead claimant, an NHS foundation trust, was not established for charitable purposes under the definition of ‘charity’ in both the Local Government Finance Act 1988 and the Charities Act 2011. Accordingly, the Chancery Division found that the claimants could not reduce their liability to pay non-domestic rates in the properties they occupied, by one fifth, under s 43 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988.
Child
L (a child) (special guardianship order: reasons) [2020] EWCA Civ 20, [2020] All ER (D) 98 (Jan)
The judge had been entitled to make a special guardianship order in favour of the maternal grandmother and reject the application of the local authority, supported by the children’s guardian, for a care plan for adoption. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissing the guardian’s appeal, held that the judge had carried out a thorough evaluation of the relevant evidence and his decision could not be described
