Patrick Halliday is a highly regarded specialist in procurement and employment law. His practice also covers public law; pensions law (focusing on public sector schemes, discrimination and public law aspects of pensions); and commercial disputes involving former employees and directors.

Patrick is a member of the Attorney General’s “A Panel” of counsel.

He is recommended by the legal directories in four practice areas: procurement (tier one); employment (tier one); administrative & public; and pensions. In June 2021, he was named “Barrister of the Week” in the Lawyer magazine.

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Patrick has acted in dozens of multi-day trials and numerous appeals to the EAT and the Court of Appeal. Much of his recent work has involved discrimination and whistleblowing claims in the financial services and health sectors; and industrial relations work.

In the High Court, Patrick regularly makes and resists applications for interim relief against current and former employees and directors. He has acted in various team move disputes, including multi- jurisdictional litigation in both the English and Welsh courts and in the DIFC (where he is registered).

Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 both place Patrick in “tier one” out of six tiers of leading employment practitioners.

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  • Patrick Halliday is always impressive and completely in control of his cases. Patrick is also excellent with lay clients.

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  • Patrick Halliday is always willing, keen to get stuck in, hands-on, and good on his feet.

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  • Patrick Halliday is an all-round exceptional barrister with extremely acute advocacy skills.

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  1. Triton Investment Advisors LLP & others v Lapinsksi

    (2025, EAT)

    Ongoing appeal in the EAT concerning employment tribunals’ international jurisdiction in relation to overseas respondents.

  2. Leeks v Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

    [2024] EAT 178 EAT

    Successful appeal concerning limitation rules in the NHS ‘whistleblower’ regulations (the Employment Rights Act 1996 (NHS Recruitment – Protected Disclosure) Regulations 2018).

  3. Manning v Walker Crips

    [2023] IRLR 729 (EAT), [2023] ICR 1265

    employment status of stockbroker (sole counsel).   

  4. Franklin v NHS England and Issar

    (ET judgment of 5 April 2023)

    successful defence of NHSE England and its Chief People Officer against high profile discrimination claims made by NHS England’s Head of Diversity (sole counsel).

  5. Consulting Firm A v Consulting Firm B

    (2021, HC and DIFC)

    multinational, multi-jurisdictional, multi- party, high value team move and restrictive covenants dispute, in the London High Court and in the DIFC (led by James Laddie KC).

  6. Consulting Firm A v Consulting Firm B

    2021

    multinational, multi-jurisdictional, multi- party, high value team move and restrictive covenants dispute, in the London High Court and in the DIFC (led by James Laddie KC).

  7. Fitzmaurice v Luton Irish Forum

    [2021] 9 WLUK 529 (EAT)

    whistleblowing, ‘causation’ test (sole counsel).

  8. Curless v Shell International

    [2020] EWCA Civ 1710, [2020] ICR 431, [2020] IRLR 36 (CoA)

    lawyer’s email advising an employer in relation to disabled employee’s possible redundancy was protected by legal advice privilege (sole counsel).

  9. X v Y Ltd

    [2019] IRLR 516 (EAT)

    lawyer’s advice on how to use a genuine redundancy exercise as a cloak to dismiss an employee for making disability discrimination complaints fell within the ‘iniquity’ exception to legal advice privilege (sole counsel).

  10. Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley

    [2021] UKSC 10

    Whether female retail staff are entitled to compare themselves with male employees at distribution depots for the purposes of an equal pay claim.

  11. Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley

    [2019] ICR 118 (CoA)

    in the largest ever claim for equal pay in the private sector (20,000 claimants), workers in ‘stores’ were able to compare their pay with workers in separate ‘establishments’, i.e. ‘warehouses’ (led by Christopher Jeans KC).

  12. Wollenberg v Global Gaming Ventures (Leeds) Ltd

    [2018] 4 WLUK 14 (EAT)

    successful appeal against refusal of interim relief in whistleblowing claim (sole counsel).

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Patrick is a well-known and highly regarded specialist in procurement law. He regularly appears in high value procurement cases, either as sole counsel or as part of a larger team. He acted in one the first subsidy control cases to come before the courts (the ‘Bulb’ case), and has advised numerous clients on the new subsidy control regime.

He is named as a leading practitioner for procurement in Chambers & Partners, Who’s Who Legal and the Legal 500 (placing him in “tier 1”, as one of the top four non-KCs in the country).

Patrick edits (with Jason Coppel KC and Joseph Barrett) 11KBW’s Procurement & State Aid Briefing.

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  • Tenacious, very much in demand and just very good.

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  • Patrick was really excellent on his feet at the hearing. He had a very good approach with clients and was a very good advocate all round.

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  1. R (British Gas and others) v SoS for ESNZ

    [2025] EWCA Civ 209 (‘Bulb’)

    the first subsidy control case to reach the Court of Appeal, in which the Court upheld the dismissal of a claim concerning subsidisation of the sale of Bulb’s energy business.

  2. R (British Gas and others) v SoS for ESNZ

    [2023] EWHC 737 (Admin) [2023] EWHC 737 (Div Ct) (‘Bulb’)

    acting for Secretary of State in successful defence of highly expedited judicial review challenge to subsidies granted in the course of the sale of Bulb Energy.

  3. One Medicare t/a One Primary Medicare LLP v NHS Northamptonshire ICB

     [2025] EWHC 63 (TCC)

    acted for winning bidder in successful application to lift automatic suspension in procurement claim.

  4. Practice Plus Group Ltd v NHS Commissioning Board

    [2022] EWHC 2082 (TCC)

    Successful application to lift automatic suspension on contracts for healthcare in prisons.

  5. R (Good Law Project) v Minister for the Cabinet Office

    [2022] PTSR 933

    emergency award (during the pandemic) of contract to friends of Dominic Cummings was not unlawful for apparent bias.

  6. R (Good Law Project) v Minister for the Cabinet Office

    [2022] PTSR 933

    Emergency award (during the pandemic) of contract to friends of Dominic Cummings was not unlawful for apparent bias.

  7. R (Good Law Project) v Minister for the Cabinet Office

    [2022] PTSR 933

    Represented claimant in challenge to award of contract for market research services without competition to “friends” of the Minister and Dominic Cummings.

  8. Stagecoach & Others v Secretary of State for Transport (“2019 Rail Franchising Litigation”)

    [2020] EWHC 1568 (TCC)

    Disqualification of bidders from rail franchise procurement competitions (because they had proposed amendments concerning pension risks) was lawful and had not breached EU law on proportionality, transparency and equal treatment.

  9. Department of Transport v West Coast Trains Partnership

    [2019] EWCA Civ 2259, [2020] All ER 948, [2020] 1 P&CR 17, 188 Con LR 31

    Six-year limitation period for procurement claims under EU law which are not governed by the Public Contracts Regulations.

  10. Circle Nottingham Ltd v NHS Rushcliffe Clinical Commissioning Group

    [2019] EWHC 3635 (TCC)

    In a claim that an NHS procurement process was unfair on the basis of (inter alia) alleged receipt of state aid by NHS hospital trusts, the Court restricted the scope of expert evidence.

  11.  AEW Europe LLP v Basingstoke and Deane BC

    [2019] EWHC 2050 (TCC), [2020] PTSR 21

    No grounds for declaration of ineffectiveness, even assuming a development agreement was a materially varied contract which was not actually the subject of the tender process.

  12. Abbvie Ltd v NHS Commissioning Board

    [2019] EWHC 61 (TCC)

    Court rejected challenge to £1bn procurement of Hepatitis C treatments, finding that a sophisticated procurement process did not breach principles of transparency and equal treatment.

  13. R (Wylde) v Waverley BC

    [2017] EWHC 466 (Admin); [2017] ACD 167

    leading decision on the restrictions on ‘standing’ for judicial review challenges to procurement decisions.

  14. R (Wylde) v Waverley BC

    [2017] EWHC 466 (Admin); [2017] ACD 167

    Claim that variation of development agreement amounted to new contract which could not be awarded without new procurement competition; leading decision on the restrictions on ‘standing’ for judicial review challenges to procurement decisions.

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Patrick has been a member of the Attorney General’s ‘A’ panel since March 2021 (having previously been on the ‘B’ and ‘C’ panels),

He is recommended as a leading practitioner for Administrative & Public Law in Chambers & Partners.

He has acted in numerous claims for judicial review across a range of areas, including prisons, immigration, social security, libraries, human rights and the public sector equalities duty. He has a particular focus on claims for judicial review involving procurement and pensions issues.

Between 2008 and 2011 Patrick was junior counsel to the Baha Mousa Inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa in British Army custody in Iraq in 2003 and into the use of ‘conditioning’ techniques by British soldiers. During approximately 100 days of witness evidence Patrick cross-examined various witnesses on behalf of the Inquiry.

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  • Patrick is brilliant on public cases with a procurement element. His attention to detail is first-class.

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  • Paddy is brilliant. He is committed and works very hard until the job is done. He is alarmingly bright and incredibly diligent. A pleasure to work with.

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  • Patrick's drafting is precise, succinct and persuasive. He can see past the extraneous to focus on the key issues.

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  1. R (British Gas and others) v SoS for ESNZ

    [2023] EWHC 737 (Admin) [2023] EWHC 737 (Div Ct) (‘Bulb’)

    acting for Secretary of State in successful defence of highly expedited judicial review challenge to subsidies granted in the course of the sale of Bulb Energy.

  2. R (British Gas and others) v SoS for ESNZ

    [2025] EWCA Civ 209 (‘Bulb’)

    the first subsidy control case to reach the Court of Appeal, in which the Court upheld the dismissal of a claim concerning subsidisation of the sale of Bulb’s energy business.

  3. R (Gardner) v (1) Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (2) NHS Commissioning Board (NHS England) (3) Public Health England

    [2022] PTSR 1338 (Div Ct)

    deaths in care homes during the pandemic; successful defence of NHS England against claim for breach of Article 2 ECHR and other public law duties.

  4. R (Efthimiou) v Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London

    [2022] EWHC 1588 (Admin); [2022] LLR 804

    the charging policy imposed by the municipal governing body of the City of London for swimming at a ladies’ bathing pond was lawful

  5. R (Good Law Project) v Minister for the Cabinet Office

    [2022] PTSR 933

    Represented claimant in challenge to award of contract for market research services without competition to “friends” of the Minister and Dominic Cummings.

  6. R (Good Law Project) v Minister for the Cabinet Office

    [2022] PTSR 933

    Emergency award (during the pandemic) of contract to friends of Dominic Cummings was not unlawful for apparent bias.

  7. R (Good Law Project) v Minister for the Cabinet Office

    [2022] PTSR 933

    emergency award (during the pandemic) of contract to friends of Dominic Cummings was not unlawful for apparent bias.

  8. R (Good Law Project) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

    [2022] PTSR 644

    ‘VIP’ lane for government procurement of PPE contracts during the pandemic was unlawful.

  9. R (Good Law Project) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

    [2021] EWHC 1237 (TCC), [2021] EWHC 997 (TCC)

    specific disclosure of WhatsApp and text messages concerning the ‘VIP lane’ for PPE procurement; grant of costs capping order.

  10. R (Enterprise Managed Service Ltd) v SoS of Housing, Communities and Local Government

    [2021] EWHC 1436 (Admin), [2021] Pens LR 15, [2021] 1 WLR 5062

    removal of absolute entitlement to ‘exit credits’ for employers exiting Local Government Pension Scheme did not breach Article 6 or A1P1 of ECHR.

  11. R (Hughes) v Board of the Pension Protection Fund

    [2020] EWHC 1598 (Admin), [2021] Pens LR 2

    compatibility of UK’s system for protecting pensions in event of employer insolvency with EU law.

  12. R (British Telecommunications Plc) v HM Treasury

    [2020] EWCA Civ 1, [2020] Pens LR 12

    indexation of guaranteed minimum pension payable to members of public service pension schemes was lawful notwithstanding knock-on effects on BT’s pension scheme.

  13. R (Harvey) v Haringey LBC

    [19] ICR 1059, [2019] Pens LR 3

    exclusion of unmarried cohabiting partners from survivor’s pensions available to spouses did not breach Article 14 of ECHR.

  14. R (DSD) v Parole Board for England and Wales

    [2018] EWHC 695 (Admin), [2019] QB 285

    challenge to Parole Board’s release of John Worboys; rules on secrecy of Parole Board proceedings ultra vires.

  15. R (Wylde) v Waverley BC

    [2017] EWHC 466 (Admin); [2017] ACD 167

    leading decision on the restrictions on ‘standing’ for judicial review challenges to procurement decisions.

  16. R (Clulow) v Secretary of Work and Pensions

    [2013] EWHC 3241 (Admin), [2013] All ER (D) 320 (Oct)

    the system for community care grants did not breach Article 14 of the ECHR.

  17. R (Manning) v Secretary of State for Justice

    [2013] EWHC 1821 (Admin), [2013] All ER (D) 43 (Jul)

    lawful reversal of recategorisation decision.

  18. R (Williams) v Surrey County Council

    [2012] Eq LR 656

    library services and the public sector equalities duty.

  19. R (Moyse) v Secretary of State for Education

    [2012] ELR 551

     the only reported case on academy conversions under the Academies Act 2010.

  20. R (Hurst) v London North District Coroner

    [2007] UKHL 13

    Article 3 ECHR, coroners’ inquests and application of the Human Rights Act 1998 to deaths pre- dating the Act.

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Patrick’s commercial work focuses on claims against former employees and directors, including applications for urgent injunctive relief. He has acted in various ‘team move’ disputes, both in this jurisdiction and in the DIFC (where he is registered).

Patrick regularly represents both claimants and defendants in applications for interim relief in the Chancery Division and in the Queen’s Bench Division.

  1. Aon UK Limited and others v Howden Group Holdings Limited and others

    (ongoing in 2025)

    acting for individual defendant in major team move litigation.

  2. Mercia Underwriting Solutions v Simon Careless

    (2024, KB-2023-BHM-000226)

    contested application for interim relief and subsequent trial of claims for breaches of restrictive covenants (claimant withdrew claim against Patrick’s client and agreed to pay his costs on day one of trial).

  3. Lonmar Global Risks Ltd & another v Wordsworth & others

    (2024, KB-2024-000540)

    contested application for springboard relief.

  4. Consulting Firm A v Consulting Firm B

    (2021, HC and DIFC)

    multinational, multi-jurisdictional, multi- party, high value team move and restrictive covenants dispute, in the London High Court and in the DIFC (led by James Laddie KC).

  5. Consulting Firm A v Consulting Firm B

    2021

    multinational, multi-jurisdictional, multi- party, high value team move and restrictive covenants dispute, in the London High Court and in the DIFC (led by James Laddie KC).

  6. Universal Lifting & Moving Services Ltd v Kavanagh

    2018

    acting for claimant company in claim against its former managing director that he destroyed its business by resigning without sufficient notice, diverting business to a competitor and soliciting other employees to join a competitor (sole counsel).

  7. OCS Group Ltd v Ahitan & others

    2017

    acting for defendant employee in claim in Chancery Division for alleged misuse of confidential information (sole counsel).

  8. Bridge McFarland v Jones

    2016

    obtaining urgent interim relief against a law firm’s ex- employee, injuncting him from using or selling various domain names and websites, and obliging him to provide an affidavit describing his dealings in the same (sole counsel).

  9. Wolverhampton City Council v Mitie Property Services (UK) Ltd

    2015

    multi-million pound pensions claim in Chancery Division involving allegations of conspiracy (led by Tim Kerr KC).

  10. Wolverhampton City Council v Mitie Property Services (UK) Ltd

    2015

    multi-million pound claim in Chancery Division by which the administering authority of a LGPS fund sought to recover an ‘exit debt’ from a transferee admission body.

  11. LS Systems v Scott

    [2015] EWHC 1335 (Ch)

    successful claims arising out of £1.4m misappropriation of company funds (breach of fiduciary duty, declaration of constructive trust, and proprietary orders over properties into which trust funds were traced).

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Patrick has a specialist pensions practice which focuses on public sector schemes; discrimination in pension schemes; and public law issues in pensions litigation. He is named as a leading pensions practitioner by the Legal 500.

  1. R (Enterprise Managed Service Ltd) v SoS of Housing, Communities and Local Government

    [2021] EWHC 1436 (Admin), [2021] Pens LR 15, [2021] 1 WLR 5062

    removal of absolute entitlement to ‘exit credits’ for employers exiting Local Government Pension Scheme did not breach Article 6 or A1P1 of ECHR.

  2. R (Enterprise Managed Service Ltd) v SoS of Housing, Communities and Local Government

    [2021] EWHC 1436 (Admin), [2021] Pens LR 15, [2021] 1 WLR 5062

    removal of absolute entitlement to ‘exit credits’ for employers exiting Local Government Pension Scheme did not breach Article 6 or A1P1 of ECHR.

  3. Lloyds Banking Group Pensions Trustees Limited v (1) Lloyds Bank Plc (2) HBOS PLC (6) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (8) Ivan Walker

    [2020] EWHC 3135 (Ch), [2021] Pens LR 10

    pension trustees’ duty to ‘equalise’ benefits (to eliminate discrimination resulting from GMPs) applies to historical ‘transfers out’ of a scheme.

  4. R (Hughes) v Board of the Pension Protection Fund

    [2020] EWHC 1598 (Admin), [2021] Pens LR 2

    compatibility of UK’s system for protecting pensions in event of employer insolvency with EU law.

  5. R (Hughes) v Board of the Pension Protection Fund

    [2020] EWHC 1598 (Admin), [2021] Pens LR 2

    compatibility of UK’s system for protecting pensions in event of employer insolvency with EU law.

  6. R (British Telecommunications Plc) v HM Treasury

    [2020] EWCA Civ 1, [2020] Pens LR 12

    indexation of guaranteed minimum pension payable to members of public service pension schemes was lawful notwithstanding knock-on effects on BT’s pension scheme.

  7. R (British Telecommunications Plc) v HM Treasury 

    [2020] EWCA Civ 1, [2020] Pens LR 12

    indexation of guaranteed minimum pension payable to members of public service pension schemes was lawful notwithstanding knock-on effects on BT’s pension scheme.

  8. Sanderson v NHS Business Services Authority

    [2019] EWHC 2900 (Ch), [2020] ICR 905

    qualification for ‘death in service’ benefits under NHS pension scheme; whether locum practitioner in pensionable employment between contracts.

  9. R (Harvey) v Haringey LBC

    [19] ICR 1059, [2019] Pens LR 3

    exclusion of unmarried cohabiting partners from survivor’s pensions available to spouses did not breach Article 14 of ECHR.

  10. R (Harvey) v Haringey LBC

    [19] ICR 1059, [2019] Pens LR 3

    exclusion of unmarried cohabiting partners from survivor’s pensions available to spouses did not breach Article 14 of ECHR.

  11. Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester v Butterworth

    (Chancery Division, 10th November 2016)

    appeal against a determination by the Pensions Ombudsman that a member of the LGPS should be paid a pension equivalent to the full amount of an unreduced pension from the age of 55, raising issues of contractual estoppel, enforceability of ultra vires promises and legitimate expectations;

  12. Wolverhampton City Council v Mitie Property Services (UK) Ltd

    2015

    multi-million pound pensions claim in Chancery Division involving allegations of conspiracy (led by Tim Kerr KC).

  13. Wolverhampton City Council v Mitie Property Services (UK) Ltd

    2015

    multi-million pound claim in Chancery Division by which the administering authority of a LGPS fund sought to recover an ‘exit debt’ from a transferee admission body.

  14. Stokes v Oxfordshire County Council

    [2014] EWHC 2177 (Ch), [2014] Pens LR 631

    in the Firemen’s Pension Scheme, the calculation of “pensionable pay for the year ending with the relevant date” did not include arrears of pay for work which had been performed in previous years but had been paid in the year ending with the relevant date.

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Between 2008 and 2011 Patrick was junior counsel to the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa in British Army custody in Iraq in 2003 and into the use of “conditioning” techniques by British soldiers. During approximately 100 days of witness evidence Patrick was responsible for examining a number of witnesses on behalf of the Inquiry.

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  1. R (British Gas and others) v SoS for ESNZ

    [2025] EWCA Civ 209 (‘Bulb’)

    the first subsidy control case to reach the Court of Appeal, in which the Court upheld the dismissal of a claim concerning subsidisation of the sale of Bulb’s energy business.

  2. R (British Gas and others) v SoS for ESNZ

    [2023] EWHC 737 (Admin) [2023] EWHC 737 (Div Ct) (‘Bulb’)

    acting for Secretary of State in successful defence of highly expedited judicial review challenge to subsidies granted in the course of the sale of Bulb Energy.

  3. One Medicare t/a One Primary Medicare LLP v NHS Northamptonshire ICB

     [2025] EWHC 63 (TCC)

    acted for winning bidder in successful application to lift automatic suspension in procurement claim.

  4. Leeks v Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

    [2024] EAT 178 EAT

    Successful appeal concerning limitation rules in the NHS ‘whistleblower’ regulations (the Employment Rights Act 1996 (NHS Recruitment – Protected Disclosure) Regulations 2018).

  5. Manning v Walker Crips

    [2023] IRLR 729 (EAT), [2023] ICR 1265

    employment status of stockbroker (sole counsel).   

  6. Practice Plus Group Ltd v NHS Commissioning Board

    [2022] EWHC 2082 (TCC)

    Successful application to lift automatic suspension on contracts for healthcare in prisons.

  7. R (Efthimiou) v Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London

    [2022] EWHC 1588 (Admin); [2022] LLR 804

    the charging policy imposed by the municipal governing body of the City of London for swimming at a ladies’ bathing pond was lawful

  8. R (Gardner) v (1) Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (2) NHS Commissioning Board (NHS England) (3) Public Health England

    [2022] PTSR 1338 (Div Ct)

    deaths in care homes during the pandemic; successful defence of NHS England against claim for breach of Article 2 ECHR and other public law duties.

  9. R (Good Law Project) v Minister for the Cabinet Office

    [2022] PTSR 933

    Represented claimant in challenge to award of contract for market research services without competition to “friends” of the Minister and Dominic Cummings.

  10. R (Good Law Project) v Minister for the Cabinet Office

    [2022] PTSR 933

    Emergency award (during the pandemic) of contract to friends of Dominic Cummings was not unlawful for apparent bias.

  11. R (Good Law Project) v Minister for the Cabinet Office

    [2022] PTSR 933

    emergency award (during the pandemic) of contract to friends of Dominic Cummings was not unlawful for apparent bias.

  12. R (Good Law Project) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

    [2022] PTSR 644

    ‘VIP’ lane for government procurement of PPE contracts during the pandemic was unlawful.

  13. R (Good Law Project) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

    [2022] PTSR 644

    ‘VIP’ lane for government procurement of PPE contracts during the pandemic was unlawful.

  14. R (Good Law Project) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

    [2021] EWHC 1237 (TCC), [2021] EWHC 997 (TCC)

    specific disclosure of WhatsApp and text messages concerning the ‘VIP lane’ for PPE procurement; grant of costs capping order.

  15. R (Enterprise Managed Service Ltd) v SoS of Housing, Communities and Local Government

    [2021] EWHC 1436 (Admin), [2021] Pens LR 15, [2021] 1 WLR 5062

    removal of absolute entitlement to ‘exit credits’ for employers exiting Local Government Pension Scheme did not breach Article 6 or A1P1 of ECHR.

  16. R (Enterprise Managed Service Ltd) v SoS of Housing, Communities and Local Government

    [2021] EWHC 1436 (Admin), [2021] Pens LR 15, [2021] 1 WLR 5062

    removal of absolute entitlement to ‘exit credits’ for employers exiting Local Government Pension Scheme did not breach Article 6 or A1P1 of ECHR.

  17. Lloyds Banking Group Pensions Trustees Limited v (1) Lloyds Bank Plc (2) HBOS PLC (6) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (8) Ivan Walker

    [2020] EWHC 3135 (Ch), [2021] Pens LR 10

    pension trustees’ duty to ‘equalise’ benefits (to eliminate discrimination resulting from GMPs) applies to historical ‘transfers out’ of a scheme.

  18. Stagecoach & Others v Secretary of State for Transport (“2019 Rail Franchising Litigation”)

    [2020] EWHC 1568 (TCC)

    Disqualification of bidders from rail franchise procurement competitions (because they had proposed amendments concerning pension risks) was lawful and had not breached EU law on proportionality, transparency and equal treatment.

  19. R (Hughes) v Board of the Pension Protection Fund

    [2020] EWHC 1598 (Admin), [2021] Pens LR 2

    compatibility of UK’s system for protecting pensions in event of employer insolvency with EU law.

  20. R (Hughes) v Board of the Pension Protection Fund

    [2020] EWHC 1598 (Admin), [2021] Pens LR 2

    compatibility of UK’s system for protecting pensions in event of employer insolvency with EU law.

  21. Curless v Shell International

    [2020] EWCA Civ 1710, [2020] ICR 431, [2020] IRLR 36 (CoA)

    lawyer’s email advising an employer in relation to disabled employee’s possible redundancy was protected by legal advice privilege (sole counsel).

  22. Sanderson v NHS Business Services Authority

    [2019] EWHC 2900 (Ch), [2020] ICR 905

    qualification for ‘death in service’ benefits under NHS pension scheme; whether locum practitioner in pensionable employment between contracts.

  23. Department of Transport v West Coast Trains Partnership

    [2019] EWCA Civ 2259, [2020] All ER 948, [2020] 1 P&CR 17, 188 Con LR 31

    Six-year limitation period for procurement claims under EU law which are not governed by the Public Contracts Regulations.

  24.  AEW Europe LLP v Basingstoke and Deane BC

    [2019] EWHC 2050 (TCC), [2020] PTSR 21

    No grounds for declaration of ineffectiveness, even assuming a development agreement was a materially varied contract which was not actually the subject of the tender process.

  25. Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley

    [2021] UKSC 10

    Whether female retail staff are entitled to compare themselves with male employees at distribution depots for the purposes of an equal pay claim.

  26. Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley

    [2019] ICR 118 (CoA)

    in the largest ever claim for equal pay in the private sector (20,000 claimants), workers in ‘stores’ were able to compare their pay with workers in separate ‘establishments’, i.e. ‘warehouses’ (led by Christopher Jeans KC).

  27. X v Y Ltd

    [2019] IRLR 516 (EAT)

    lawyer’s advice on how to use a genuine redundancy exercise as a cloak to dismiss an employee for making disability discrimination complaints fell within the ‘iniquity’ exception to legal advice privilege (sole counsel).

  28. R (DSD) v Parole Board for England and Wales

    [2018] EWHC 695 (Admin), [2019] QB 285

    challenge to Parole Board’s release of John Worboys; rules on secrecy of Parole Board proceedings ultra vires.

  29. R (Wylde) v Waverley BC

    [2017] EWHC 466 (Admin); [2017] ACD 167

    Claim that variation of development agreement amounted to new contract which could not be awarded without new procurement competition; leading decision on the restrictions on ‘standing’ for judicial review challenges to procurement decisions.

  30. R (Wylde) v Waverley BC

    [2017] EWHC 466 (Admin); [2017] ACD 167

    leading decision on the restrictions on ‘standing’ for judicial review challenges to procurement decisions.

  31. Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester v Butterworth

    (Chancery Division, 10th November 2016)

    appeal against a determination by the Pensions Ombudsman that a member of the LGPS should be paid a pension equivalent to the full amount of an unreduced pension from the age of 55, raising issues of contractual estoppel, enforceability of ultra vires promises and legitimate expectations;

  32. Stokes v Oxfordshire County Council

    [2014] EWHC 2177 (Ch), [2014] Pens LR 631

    in the Firemen’s Pension Scheme, the calculation of “pensionable pay for the year ending with the relevant date” did not include arrears of pay for work which had been performed in previous years but had been paid in the year ending with the relevant date.

  33. R (Clulow) v Secretary of Work and Pensions

    [2013] EWHC 3241 (Admin), [2013] All ER (D) 320 (Oct)

    the system for community care grants did not breach Article 14 of the ECHR.

  34. R (Manning) v Secretary of State for Justice

    [2013] EWHC 1821 (Admin), [2013] All ER (D) 43 (Jul)

    lawful reversal of recategorisation decision.

  35. R (Moyse) v Secretary of State for Education

    [2012] ELR 551

     the only reported case on academy conversions under the Academies Act 2010.

  36. R (Williams) v Surrey County Council

    [2012] Eq LR 656

    library services and the public sector equalities duty.

  37. R (Hurst) v London North District Coroner

    [2007] UKHL 13

    Article 3 ECHR, coroners’ inquests and application of the Human Rights Act 1998 to deaths pre- dating the Act.

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Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel of Counsel (since 2021).

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‘The Remuneration Codes‘ in Conduct and Pay in the Financial Services Industry (2017, Routledge, ed Ogg and Leiper)

‘European Union Law’ in Tolley’s Employment Handbook (2016, LexisNexis)

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Restitution and Public Bodies (Judicial Review Vol 12 Issue 3)

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