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THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS (Sir Thomas Bingham) LORD JUSTICE SIMON BROWN LORD JUSTICE SWINTON THOMAS ____________________
(Handed Down Judgment of John Larking Verbatim Reporters, Chancery House, Chancery Lane London WC2 Tel: 071 404 7464 Official Shorthand Writers to the Court)
THE HONOURABLE MICHAEL J. BELOFF QC & MR. D HOLGATE (Instructed by Messrs. Knights, Tunbridge Wells ) appeared on behalf of the Respondent MR. M SUPPERSTONE QC & MR. P SALES (Instructed by Messrs. Sharpe Pritchard, London, WC1 agents for J.K. WHITCOTT County Solicitor Taunton) appeared on behalf of the Appellant Somerset County Council ____________________
THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS : The parties to this appeal are, on one side, the Somerset County Council and, on the other, representatives of the Quantock Staghounds ("the Hunt"). The issue which divides them is whether the county council acted lawfully when it resolved, on 4 August 1993, that
The Hunt say that the resolution was unlawful, because based on considerations which members of the county council were not permitted to take into account. Laws J agreed with them, and accordingly quashed the county council's decision. The county council say that the decision was lawful and that the judge erred in holding otherwise. That is the issue now before us.
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