Raphael Hogarth

1. Apple Inc v Secretary of State for the Home Department 

   [2025] UKIPTRIB 1

   Acted for Apple, in a claim relating to the Secretary of State’s powers to issue technical capability notices under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, successfully resisting an application for all details of the case to be private.

2. R (Wikimedia Foundation and BLN) v Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology

   [2025] EWHC 2086

   Acted for the provider of the Wikipedia service, and an anonymous Wikipedia editor, in the first case brought under the Online Safety Act 2023.

3. R (Thompson and Carlo) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis

   [2025] EWHC 2355

   Acting for the Met Police in a challenge to the use of live facial recognition in London.

4. Abbasi v Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

   [2025] UKSC 15

   Acted for an NGO intervening in a Supreme Court appeal about injunctions preventing the identification of clinicians in end-of-life cases.

5. R (Shashikanth) v NHS Litigation Authority and NHS England

   [2025] 1 WLR 2333

   Acted for NHS England in this appeal concerning the amenability to judicial review of a contractual adjudicator.

6. R (DF) v Essex County Council

   [2025] PTSR 806

   Acted for the Council in the Court of Appeal in a case concerning the relationship between housing legislation and the Children Act.

7. R (GB News) v Ofcom

   [2024] EWHC 2658 (Admin)

   Acted for Ofcom, successfully resisting an application for interim relief in a challenge by GB News to a decision that a Q&A Programme with Rishi Sunak MP breached impartiality rules.

8. R (IWGB) v Central Arbitration Committee (IP: Deliveroo)

   [2024] 2 All ER 1

   Acted for Deliveroo in a Lawyer ‘Top 10’ Supreme Court appeal about whether collective bargaining legislation breaches riders’ rights under Article 11 ECHR.

9. R (West Coast Railway Company Ltd) v Office of Rail and Road

   [2024] 4 WLR 12 

   Acted for the UK’s largest heritage railway company, operator of the so-called ‘Hogwarts Express’ Jacobite service, in a judicial review of a certification decision by the rail regulator.

10. R (London Borough of Islington) v Secretary of State for Education

    [2024] EWCA Civ 951, [2024] EWHC 1798 (Admin)

    Acted for the Claimant in proceedings before the High Court and Court of Appeal to challenge to a ‘forced academisation’.

11. Arkorful v Social Work England

    [2024] EWHC 73 (Admin), [2025] EWHC 1456 (Admin)

    Acted for the successful regulator in two joined High Court appeals of adjudicators’ decisions in fitness to practise proceedings.

12. R (Good Law Project) v Prime Minister & Others 

    [2023] 1 WLR 785

    Acted for the Claimant before the High Court and Court of Appeal in a challenge to the use of private email accounts and phones for government business.

13. R (Gardner & Harris) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

    [2022] EWHC 967 (Admin)

    Acted for the successful Claimants in a Lawyer ‘Top 20’ challenge to the government’s policies on care homes during the first wave of the pandemic.

14. R (A) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

    [2022] EWHC 360 (Admin)

    Acted for the successful Home Secretary in a challenge to the government’s flagship asylum reforms.

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

    [2022] EWHC 2888 (TCC)

    Successfully obtained a costs-capping order in a challenge to the award of a high-value PPE contract to a firm with links to the former chair of the Conservative Party.

16. Governors of St John the Divine Primary School v Lambeth Council

    STP659

    Acted unled for the governors before the Office of the Schools Adjudicator in their successful challenge to the Council’s decision to close their school.

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1. Clearview AI v Information Commissioner

   [2025] UKUT 319 (AAC)

   Acted for a US facial recognition company in this high-profile challenge to enforcement and penalty notices issued by the Commissioner for alleged breaches of the GDPR and UK GDPR.

2. R (Wikimedia Foundation and BLN) v Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology

   [2025] EWHC 2086

   Acted for the provider of the Wikipedia service, and an anonymous Wikipedia editor, in the first case brought under the Online Safety Act 2023.

3. Apple Inc v Secretary of State for the Home Department 

   [2025] UKIPTRIB 1

   Acted for Apple, in a claim relating to the Secretary of State’s powers to issue technical capability notices under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, successfully resisting an application for all details of the case to be private.

4. R (Thompson and Carlo) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis

   [2025] EWHC 2355

   Acting for the Met Police in a challenge to the use of live facial recognition in London.

5. Advice and representation on data breaches

   Acted for several controllers in the public and private sector in relation to regulatory or civil proceedings arising from cyber-attacks.

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1. Cabinet Office v IC and Good Law Project

   [2025] UKFTT 00306 (GRC)

   Acted for GLP in an appeal against an Information Notice issued by the Commissioner, relating to a request by a GLP journalist for the name of the fund operating Rishi Sunak’s ‘blind trust’ while he was Prime Minister.

2. Cabinet Office v IC and Tommy Sheppard MP

   [2024] UKUT 76 (AAC)

   Acted for Tommy Sheppard, then the SNP’s Spokesman on Scotland, in an Upper Tribunal appeal concerning a request for polling information on attitudes to the Union. The hearing was front-page news in the Scottish press.

3. SoS for Energy Security and Net Zero v IC

   [2024] UKFTT 184 (GRC)

   Acted for the successful Information Commissioner in an environmental information appeal relating to official advice on a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project.

4. Murray-Smith & ors v IC and Transport for London

   [2024] UKFTT 001064 (GRC)

   Acted for the successful public authority in five joined appeals concerning information about cameras in London and the public safety, national security, course of justice and manifest unreasonableness exemptions under the EIR.

5. Tarcy v IC and Transport for London

   [2024] UKFTT 778 (GRC)

   Acted for the successful public authority in an appeal concerning graffiti damage and the law enforcement exemption under FOIA.

6. Williams v IC

   [2023] UKUT 312 (AAC)

   Acted for the successful Information Commissioner in an Upper Tribunal appeal concerning vexatious requests under s.14 FOIA.

7. Ingle v IC and Cambridgeshire County Council

   [2023] UKUT 80 (AAC)

   Acted for the successful Information Commissioner in an Upper Tribunal appeal concerning the personal information exemption under FOIA.

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1. R (IWGB) v Central Arbitration Committee (IP: Deliveroo)

   [2024] 2 All ER 1

   Acted for Deliveroo in a Lawyer ‘Top 10’ Supreme Court appeal about whether collective bargaining legislation breaches riders’ rights under Article 11 ECHR.

2. Boydell v NZP Ltd

   [2023] EWCA Civ 373

   Acted for the successful employer in proceedings to restrain a departing employee from breaching non-compete, non-deal and non-solicit clauses.

3. Employment Tribunal litigation

   Acted for a wide range of employers in claims for unfair dismissal, discrimination and other statutory and contractual claims before the Employment Tribunal.

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1. iPlato Healthcare Limited v NHS England

   HT-2024-000041

   Acted for the Claimant in a High Court challenge to an exclusion decision relating to a major NHS framework.

2. Consultant Connect Limited v NHS Bath ICB & ors

   [2022] EWHC 2037 (TCC)

   Acted for the successful Claimant in this wide-ranging public procurement challenge, in which the Court made the first ever contract shortening order upon finding several breaches of the Public Contract Regulations 2015.

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

   [2022] EWHC 2888 (TCC)

   Acted for the Claimant in a judicial review of the award of a high-value PPE contract to a firm with links to the former chair of the Conservative Party.

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

   UKSC 2022/0082 (public settlement reached)

   Acted for the Appellant in this Supreme Court appeal about extending time in a claim for breaches of the Public Contract Regulations 2015

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1. Proceedings before a UN agency

   Advising on proceedings before the supervisory body of one of the United Nations’ specialised agencies.

2. Advice on CRPD

   Advising on the role of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in claims for disability discrimination contrary to Article 14 ECHR.

3. Clearview AI v Information Commissioner 

   [2023] UKFTT 00819 (GRC)

   Domestic privacy appeal regarding a US facial recognition company, raising issues of territorial jurisdiction, state immunity and foreign acts of state.

4. R (IWGB) v Central Arbitration Committee (Interested Party: Deliveroo)

   [2024] 2 All ER 1

   Domestic ‘gig economy’ appeal raising international labour law issues, including the application of International Labour Organization Recommendation 198 on the employment relationship.

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