Additional grounds

Regina (Opoku) v Principal and Governors of Southwark College (QBD TLR 7 November)

There is no specific limitation imposed by the CPR on the power of the High Court to grant permission to rely on additional grounds under rule 54.15 where permission has previously been refused on paper and at an oral hearing in an application for judicial review. However, because in this case there was no change in circumstances, no newly available evidence and no change in the law, the judge exercised his discretion to refuse the claimant permission to rely on an additional ground in his application for judicial review.