The inspector as inquisitor? some reflections on dyason and informal hearings

Journal of Planning and Environment Law

Volumn , Issue SEPT., 1998, Pages 825-835

  Crow, Stephen ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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1. Department of the Environment Circular 15/96, Planning Appeal Procedures, Annex 2, paragraph 18.
2. Town and Country Planning Act 1990, s.79(2).
3. But not, as yet, the other way round, though that wis proposed in the Department of the Environment's 1997 Consultation Paper, Planning Appeals.
4. Information kindly provided by the Planning Inspectorate.
5. Headline in "Manning [19981 1256, p. 5.
6. J.P.L. 64.
7. "Inquiry", "inquisition" and also "inquest" all have their etymological origin in the Latin inqujerere, or inquirae. "Inquisitio" is nothing more than one of the words for a judicial type of inquiry, 'llie Concise Oxford Dictionary, Oxford University Press 1987, and Cassells Compact Latin llnglish Dictionary, Casscll, London, 1927.
8. J. II. Baker,/In Introduction to lînglish Legal History (3rd cd. London, Buttcrworths, 1990); at p. 86.
9. Sir William Holdsworth, A History of linghsh Law (edited A. L. Goodhan and H. G. Hanbury) (7th cd. Mcthucn 1956).
10. Hooker, 7ïif Description of the Citie ofllxcester, edited 1919-47. The writer thanks Mr Nicholas Hammans for his research in the Exeter City Library' in this regard.
11. Emmanuel Lc Roy Laduric (translated by Barbara Bray): Montaillou-Cauiars and Catholics in a french Village 1294-1324. London, Scolar Press, 1978. Those involved with the current Hcathrow Inquiry may take encouragement from the fact that the inquiry which is the subject of this work sat for 370 days over seven years (1318-1325) and heard 578 witnesses. An account of procedure at ecclesiastical inquisitions is also tobe found in James B. Given, Inquisition and Medieval Society: pourr, discipline and resistance in Languedoc, Cornell University Press, 1997.
12. R. E. Wraith and G. B. Lamb, Public Inquiries as an Instrument of Government. London, AUcn and Unwin, 1971, chapter 2.
13. Report of the Local Government Board for 1910-1911, Appendix to Part I.
14. Malcolm Spcncc Q.C., Keiler practice-past and futurr, (1996) Planning Inspectorate Journal, Issue 4 p. 6.
15. H. W. R. Wade, and C. F. Forsyth, Administrative Law, 7th ed.
16. ibid. p. 931.
17. Consultation Paper "Planning Appeals" Department of the Environment 1997.
18. Planning and Environmental Law Association, Handbook 1997/8; Introduction by Malcolm Spcncc Q.C. and Nigcl MacLcod Q.C.
19. A.C. 75 at 116.
20. This was before 1991.
21. Federated LsUla Ltd v. Stattmy cf Suit for the 1-nnronment |1983]J.P.L. 812.
22. Secretary of Stale for l-diuation v. Tamaide Metropolitan Borough Council (1997J A.C. 1014 it 1065B.
23. Modernising Planning: A Policy Statement fey the Minister/or the Regions, Régénération and Planning, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, January 1998.
24. Planning and Environmental Law Association, op. cit.
25. Hazel Gcnn and Yvette Gcnn, The Effeaivencss of Representation at Tribunals; Report to the Lord Chancellor; Lord Chancellor's Department, 1989, p. 241.
26. Stephen Crow, Alison Brown. Sue Essex, I luw Thomas ind Chris Ycwlctt, Slimmer and Suifer, a nititd txamuatim ofdislria uidt hat plans and VDl's; London, the Royal Town Planning Institute, 1997, p. 17.
27. cp. cit.