“…y in writing: see Smech Properties Ltd. v Runnymede Borough Council [2016] EWCA 42 at [29] (per Sales LJ), R (Bowen & Stanton) v Secretary of State for Justice [2017] EWCA Civ 2181 at [65-72] (a judgment of my own, with which the Master of the Rolls and Rafferty LJ agreed) and Bawa-Garba v The General Medical Council [2018] EWCA Civ 1879 …”
“…of Sales LJ’s judgment in Smech Properties Ltd v. Runnymede BC[2016] EWCA Civ 42, [2016] J.P.L. 677 approved in Regina (Bowen) v. Secretary of State for Justice[2017] EWCA Civ 2181, [2018] 1 W.L.R. 2170 at paragraphs 70-73 per McCombe…”
“…These paragraphs were approved by the House of Lords in Datec at [46]. In the recent case of R (Bowen and Stanton) v Secretary of State for Justice [2017] EWCA Civ 2181, McCombe LJ explained (at [65]) that, when the appeal is from a trial judge’s multi-factorial decision, “the appeal court’s approach will be conditioned by the…”
“…in mind the comments of Sales LJ in Smech Properties Ltd. v Runnymede BC [2016] EWCA Civ 42 at paragraph 29 (followed in Bowen v Secretary of State for Justice [2017] EWCA Civ 2181) to this effect:…”