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With some hesitation I have come to the view that, notwithstanding all that happened between 5 September and 20 October, the failure on the part of the defendant to consult prior to taking a decision in principle on the issue of de-limitation was fatal to their ability to take, on 20 October, a decision to delimit the number of hackney carriage licences with immediate effect. Had they acknowledged what had gone wrong on the 5 September, decided to proceed on the basis that delimitation was one of the options it was considering, albeit a preferred one, and consulted on that basis, then it would have been open to them to decide to delimit. Mr Findlay has not, however, sought to persuade me that the issue is so cut and dried that a decision to delimit is the only one open to the defendant so as to make a further consultation exercise, followed by a decision taken on a proper basis, a foregone conclusion. Accordingly, in my judgment, this application for Judicial Review must succeed. I will hear the parties on the form of the remedy and on any other ancillary matters when this judgment is handed down.

I can't be bothered scrolling through all that legal (s)chit chat, what was the result?

got told today that watford council lost in the high court of judiciary with there efforts to deregulate and have been left with a 1.7million bill