From time to time I read comments about the amount of taxpayer money wasted by legally defending Council decisions. A recent example was the decisions over the Bridge Park Centre. I think that decision was really poorly handled and there really was no need to escalate it to a court case, but if you think of a valid decision, and it is legally challenged, what reaction do the complainants expect? Is a local authority just supposed to fold instantly the moment some one takes them to Court. If it did, it would become vulnerable to all sorts of actions just to stop the Council from working.
Of course some of these cases are also funded via legal aid so that they are actually subject to a double layer of tax payer funding, for both sides of the argument.
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