Time’s up: judicial review claim for super-sewer dismissed

From the London Evening Standard 22/01/15: A council was today accused of being “totally incompetent” after the legal challenge against London’s controversial super-sewer collapsed because it submitted court papers late. Southwark’s leader today sought to explain the cock-up by blaming “ambiguous” rules setting out deadlines for submitting papers.Don’t snigger. However much you might want to. Lib Dem opposition leader at Southwark Anood Al-Samerai said: “We all trusted the council to represent our community in court. “Now the case for a judicial review has been thrown out all because the council couldn’t manage to submit its paperwork on time. The council explained it had been working to a time-frame which would have been acceptable had new reforms currently being discussed in Parliament been passed. But with the new rules yet to come into full force, the judge applied existing rules which deemed the council’s court papers to be late.On the face of it, this sounds unforgivable.…