Tag: Chris Buttler QC

CPA failed to explain ‘mitigation’ in Boggy Sand case

CPA failed to explain ‘mitigation’ in Boggy Sand case

| 19/05/2023 | 30 Comments

(CNS): The Central Planning Authority did not give an adequate explanation as to how the conditions it imposed on planning approval for the redevelopment of a seawall and cabana on Boggy Sand Beach would address the list of environmental concerns raised by the project, a lawyer argued in court this week. Chris Buttler KC represented […]

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Jackson argues DoE had no authority to direct CPA

Jackson argues DoE had no authority to direct CPA

| 17/06/2022 | 127 Comments

(CNS): Local attorney Sammy Jackson, a planning law expert who regularly successfully advocates on behalf of developers before the Central Planning Authority, represented the CPA in court on Wednesday. Jackson argued that the Department of Environment had no authority to tell the board to refuse planning permission for a structure and seawall on Boggy Sand […]

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NCC’s lawyer says CPA failed to consider environment

NCC’s lawyer says CPA failed to consider environment

| 14/06/2022 | 56 Comments

(CNS): Chris Buttler QC told a court on Tuesday that the Central Planning Authority “strikingly” failed to record any consideration of technical submissions made to it about the negative environmental impact of a planning application it approved that is now the subject of a court challenge. In the first case of its kind, where government […]

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QC argues hospital case has no business in court

QC argues hospital case has no business in court

| 22/04/2022 | 50 Comments

(CNS): Doctors Hospital has brought an academic question to the court challenging the government’s deals with two medical tourism facilities but it has no standing to bring any legal case, Tom Hickman QC argued on Wednesday. The British lawyer has been hired by the Attorney General’s Chambers to respond to the judicial review brought by […]

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Hospital argues that deals can’t fetter tax collection

Hospital argues that deals can’t fetter tax collection

| 21/04/2022 | 41 Comments

(CNS): A lawyer representing Doctors Hospital made a comprehensive argument in court on Wednesday that the contracts signed by the UDP government with Health City Cayman Islands in 2010 and by the Unity government with Aster Cayman Medcity weeks before the 2021 election, both of which waived fees, cannot legally bind other administrations’ collection of […]

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