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East Riding Of Yorkshire Council, R (on the application of) v Joint Committee For Purpose Of Making Appointments To Humberside Police Auority, Court of Appeal - Administrative Court, December 19, 2000, [2000] EWHC Admin 434



Case No: CO/3470/2000
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION
ADMINISTRATIVE COURT

Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Tuesday 19th December 2000

B e f o r e :

THE HON MRS JUSTICE RAFFERTY


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Mr T Straker QC and Mr R Palmer (instructed by Sharp Pritchard Solicitors for the Appellant)
Mr A Pardoe QC (for the Respondent)
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Judgment
As Approved by the Court
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MRS JUSTICE RAFFERTY:
1. This is an application for judicial review of the 4th September 2000 decision of the Joint Committee for the purpose of making appointments to the Humberside Police Authority ("the joint committee") to appoint members of the police authority and/or to resolve that it was entitled to disregard independent councillors in the exercise of its duty to ensure that the members it appoints to the Humberside Police Authority reflect the balance of parties for the time being prevailing among the members of the relevant councils taken as a whole. The relief sought is certiorari to quash the decision, and a stay of the implementation of any decision purportedly made on the 4th.
2. On the 1st May 1996, Humberside County Council and the District Councils within that area were replaced by 4 unitary authorities, who assumed responsibility for the County District Councils' functions. Those authorities are the East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston Upon Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire. Because the...
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