Mahendra Maharaj v Liverpool City Council
Decision date: 21 June 2022
Neutral citation: [2022] UKUT 162 (LC)
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Short overview
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This appeal concerns whether the Upper Tribunal should grant permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal or review its own decision in proceedings about two fixed penalty notices. The Tribunal refused permission to appeal and declined to review, holding there were no arguable errors of law, no subsequent binding authority, and no compelling reason to revisit its decision; it also rejected that the First-tier Tribunal’s handling of FPN 1 tainted its findings on FPN 2.
Ratio decidendi
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The Tribunal’s ratio is that permission to appeal will be refused where the proposed appeal raises no important point of principle or practice and no arguable error of law, and that a tribunal may properly refuse to review its own decision where no overlooked legislative provision or subsequent binding authority could have materially affected the outcome.
Obiter dicta
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The judgment suggests, obiter, that disagreement with a lower tribunal’s reasoning on one issue does not necessarily impugn separate factual findings on another issue, and that criticisms of time-barred or unpleaded allegations do not automatically undermine unrelated credibility assessments.
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