Louise Venn told me that she believes the judgement confirms that "local plans are not worth the paper they are written on, as they cannot be upheld equally for poor and rich".
Catriona Stewart, education and children's services chairwoman, said the judgement confirmed communities were treated fairly and the comhairle acted in accordance with the law.
"The High Court's judgement confirms what HMRC has always said: that while we made errors in settling the Goldman Sachs dispute, we made the right settlement in the circumstances, and that our decision was both proper and lawful," he added.
The General Medical Council, which brought the case against her, says the judgement confirms that this was not about the scientific debate around shaken baby cases, but about the manner in which Dr Squier had given her evidence.
Keith Best of Freedom from Torture, a charity that helps victims, said: "Today's judgement confirms the argument we have made for years about the systemic failings in the operation of Rule 35.
Diagnosis of CIP was based on clinical judgement confirmed by electrophysiologic evaluation.
In pronouncing a guilty verdict upon Timothy Evans, the court passed what was believed to be its final judgement, thereby confirming the official narrative of Ten Rillington Place as the site of family breakdown and domestic homicide.
And surprisingly, this judgement was confirmed by none other than Michel Camdessus, the former managing director of the IMF, when he stated that "we created the conditions that obliged President Suharto to leave his job" (David E. Sanger, "Longtime IMF Director Resigns In Midterm," The New York Times, Nov. 10, 1999).
As we set out in that paper, a number of recent legal judgements have confirmed that when considering IFR cases, commissioning organisations do not have to take account of 'social factors' in their assessment of exceptional circumstances, but this legal position is frequently interpreted, as here, as meaning that they cannot take social factors into account.
The current developments in British planning would appear to display elements confirming this judgement.
