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This week's edition of Local Government weekly highlights includes coverage of the latest Procurement Policy Notes updates plus expert analysis of the Supreme Court decision in R (Spitalfields Historic Building Trust) v London Borough of Tower Hamlets in which the Supreme Court ruled that a provision in a LA constitution limiting the right to vote on an application to planning committee members who had attended all previous meetings which had considered the application was lawful and did not restrict a councillor’s democratic right to vote; Blackburn With Darwen BC v BM and others in which the High Court confirmed that parents can consent to their child’s deprivation of liberty; R (YVR) v Birmingham CC in which the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal challenging an LA decision to maintain its adult social care charging policy requiring the maximum amount permitted by regulations and clarifies who must discharge the PSED within LA decision making structures; Julie Richardson Ltd v Oxfordshire CC in which the claimant nursing...