Once the Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020, SI 2020/392, which permitted local authority meetings to be held remotely (in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic), ceased to apply, such meetings had to take place at a single, specified geographical location; attending a meeting at such a location meant physically going to it; and being ‘present’ at such a meeting involved physical presence at that location. Accordingly, the Administrative Court, in dismissing a judicial review claim, ruled that Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government had been correct, in November 2016 and July 2019, to say that primary legislation would be required to allow local authority ‘meetings’ under the Local Government Act 1972 to take place remotely. The court considered that it was unlikely that Parliament had intended an updating construction to a