Local government case law

R v Barnes BC, ex p Conlan [1938] 3 All ER 226 applied.

Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corp [1947] 2 All ER 680, [1948] 1 KB 223, CA, 45 Digest (Repl) 215, 189.
Manton v Brighton Corp [1951] 2 All ER 101, [1951] 2 KB 393, 33 Digest (Reissue) 23, 71.
[removal of committee member before a year is up]
R v Barnes BC, ex p Conlan [1938] 3 All ER 226, 16 Digest (Reissue) 362, 3839.
[court case, councillor cannot have documents without good reason]

R v Southwold Corp, ex p Wrightson (1907) 97 LT 431, DC, 16 Digest (Reissue) 362, 3838.

R v All Saints, Wigan (Churchwardens) (1876) 1 App Cas 611; 16 Digest 277, 899, 35 LT 381, affg SC sub nom R v Wigan (1874) LR 9 QB 317.
R v Southwold Corpn, Ex p Wrightson (1907) 97 LT 431; 16 Digest 316, 1288.
R v Hampstead Borough Council, Ex p Woodward (1917) 116 LT 213; 13 Digest 302, 341.

The position is not altered by the fact that in the instant case the council delegated its adoption functions to its social services committee. As was pointed out by Slade J in Manton v Brighton Corp [1951] 2 All ER 101, [1951] 2 KB 393, and as was emphasised by Donaldson LJ in his judgment, delegation by a principal to an agent does not deprive the principal (in the words of the Lord Justice) of 'a residual responsibility for the activities