County councils lose libraries legal battle

The High Court has ruled that plans by Somerset and Gloucestershire CCs to close a total of 21 libraries are unlawful.

By Jamie Hailstone | 17 November 2011

The High Court has ruled that plans by Somerset and Gloucestershire CCs to close a total of 21 libraries are unlawful.

The two councils lost a judicial review at the High Court yesterday after Judge Martin McKenna ruled the local authorities had failed to take into account their equalities duties when pushing through the plans.

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