Turpin

R (Turpin) v Commissioner for Local Administration [2002] JPL 326

BAILII judgment

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Parties and outcome

Claimant
David and Lynda Turpin
Defendant
Commissioner for Local Administration
Outcome
The Turpins won: the Commissioner’s decision was quashed.

Citations in this work

Bradford

R v Local Commissioner for Administration, ex p Bradford Metropolitan City Council [1979] QB 287

Paragraph 33

33. The meaning of maladministration has been considered in R v Local Commissioner for Administration, ex parte Bradford Metropolitan City Council [1979] QB 287 . Lord Denning in that case, at page 311, stated that parliament had deliberately left it to the Ombudsman to interpret the word as best he could but indicated that it would cover “bias, neglect, inattention, delay, incompetence, ineptitude, perversity, turpitude, arbitrariness and so on”.

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