R v Secretary of State ex parte Kirkstall [1996] 3 All ER 304
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The chairman of a planning committee had a shareholding in a rugby club that applied for planning permission.
Slade J
Held that the rules as to the disqualification of a decision maker for bias were not limited in scope to judicial decisions.
Thus they applied here too and the decision was overturned.
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