- Cited — AKC v Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust 2022-05-10
“…Querying the weight to be attached to Practice Direction 47, Mr Browne cited U v Liverpool City Council [2005] EWCA Civ 475, [2005] 1 WLR 2657, An NHS Trust v Y [2018] UKSC 46, [2019] AC 978 and In re NY (A Child) [2019] UKSC 49, [2020] AC 665. In U v Liverpool City Council, Brooke …”
- Cited — HH Aluminium & Building Products Ltd & Anor v Bell & Anor (Rev 1) 2020-11-09
“…rectly pointed out that Practice Directions have no legislative force and if they misstate the law they “carry no authority at all” (U v Liverpool City Council [2005] EWCA Civ 475 at [48] per Brooke LJ) but it is nevertheless some reassurance to find that a Practice Direction issued by Sir Geoffrey Vos C takes the same view of the 2016 r…”
- Cited — King v City of London Corporation 2019-12-18
“…[2002] 1 WLR 997 at paragraph 11, “at best a weak aid to the interpretation of the rules themselves”. In U v Liverpool City Council [2005] EWCA Civ 475, [2005] 1 WLR 2657, Brooke LJ, giving the judgment of the Court, noted at paragraph 48 that a Practice Direction “has no legislative force” and went on:…”