R ( GOULD ) v DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL (2026) EWCA Civ 687 concerns decisions by the Council to close non-statutory drop-in centres. The Court of Appeal holds that that the Council had been no legal obligation to refer in the Officers Report to obligations in the Care Act 2014 which were not alleged to have been breached. An authority does not have in every case to have regard to a wide range of statutory duties which were (or arguably were) relevant in a broad sense, although not identified in the governing legislation.
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