This week's edition of Local Government weekly highlights includes: coverage of the UK-India free trade agreement which highlights a landmark deal projected to open access to India’s £38bn public procurement market. Also included in this edition is expert analysis on the decisions in Trower v Elmbridge BC, where the court found a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) prohibiting unauthorised riverbank mooring to be irrational and Laidley v Metropolitan Housing Trust Ltd, where the Court of Appeal upheld the trial judge’s refusal to disclose the nature of the advice provided by a mental health expert appointed under section 63 of the County Courts Act 1984, affirming the appropriateness of maintaining confidentiality around the assessor’s assistance in complex mental health-related proceedings. Case reports include J v Bath and North East Somerset Council (Article 39/Mind and others intervening) in which the court ruled that an LA as an organ of the state cannot provide valid consent to a child’s confinement; Haringey LBC v M and Re A Child,...
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