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On Friday 31 July 2026 Mr Justice Chamberlain refused permission in the High Court for a judicial review challenging the regulatory approvals granted to the PATHWAYS clinical trial, and refused an application for interim relief seeking to prevent the trial... Read more
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On Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 July 2026 the High Court (Chamberlain J) is holding an unusual two-day permission hearing to decide whether a legal challenge to the authorisation of the PATHWAYS clinical trial of puberty blockers can proceed. The... Read more
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On 7 July 2026 the High Court (Sweeting J) granted permission for a judicial review claim to proceed against Transport for London concerning London’s minicab drivers (Mugabo v Transport for London). In 2025 TfL’s licencing system for minicab drivers, which... Read more
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We are pleased to announce that following the competition earlier this year we have had five new appointments to the Attorney General’s Panels of Counsel. Rupert Paines and Zoe Gannon have been appointed to the A Panel, Juliet Wells and Ben... Read more
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The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in Aubrey Weis v Greater Manchester Combined Authority [2026] EWCA Civ 825. The proceedings concern a challenge under the Subsidy Control Act 2022 (the Act) to £120 million of loans given by Greater Manchester Combined... Read more
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Samuel Willis gave oral evidence to the House of Lords Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee in connection with its inquiry into Article 2 of the Northern Ireland Protocol / Windsor Framework, the non-diminution of rights provision. In particular, Samuel gave evidence on... Read more
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On 23 June 2026, the Court of Appeal (Coulson, Baker and Holgate LLJ) handed down a unanimous judgment in R (Aina Khan Law Ltd) v Legal Ombudsman [2026] EWCA Civ 773. Stephen Kosmin acted for the successful appellant, the Legal Ombudsman, in the Court... Read more
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In Zenobe Limited v GEMA [2026] CAT 53 the Competition Appeal Tribunal (the CAT) has dismissed judicial review claims brought under the Subsidy Control Act 2022 (the Act) and on vires grounds to the Gas and Electricity Market Authority’s (GEMA) long duration electricity storage... Read more
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On 19 June 2026, the High Court (Murray J) handed down judgment rejecting an application to strike out the first representative action brought under Article 80 UK GDPR. The Good Law Project, on behalf of various individuals who submitted data... Read more
