Attached is the text of the judgement. The judgement is a repeat annulment of blocking sanctions against the applicant within JR process. It is an important example of a situation when repeated annulments of listing (and re-listing) of blocked persons by the General Court do not result in a positive action of the Council to remove such persons from the blockings lists. The previous annulment judgements are here and here.
The judgement is further authority as to (among other matters): (i) the lawfulness of the Council amending listing criteria and re-listing a person under such a new criteria; (ii) the unlawfulness of listing a person on the basis of evidence which was not available to the Council at the time when the relevant initial listing decisions (or a decision to continue listing) were made; and (iii) that prior positions of a listed person (which such person resigned from at the time of renewing restrictive measures) are not a good justification to continue to list such a person. The judgement also sets out the rigour of evidence review and the application of leading businessmen / businessmen criterion in listing individuals to blocking sanctions.