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Today is the first day of a three-day hearing before a Divisional Court to determine human rights challenges against the Government’s policy to impose VAT on private school fees. One of the challenges is brought by independent school pupils with special educational... Read more
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Tom Ogg has been ranked as a leading junior for commercial in the Legal 500 EMEA Guide 2025. This section covers commercial disputes in the Middle East, which includes the DIFC courts in Dubai, the ADGM courts in Abu Dhabi,... Read more
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The First-tier Tribunal has handed down an important Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) judgment concerning briefing notes and readouts from meetings in 2021 and 2022 between then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Indian industrialist Gautam Adani. The information from the meetings... Read more
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Millbrook Healthcare Limited v Devon County Council [2025] EWHC 744 (TCC) The High Court (Anneli Howard KC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) held that the automatic suspension should be lifted in respect of a c. £65m public contract ... Read more
Podcasts
The March episode of the 11KBW Employment Podcast is out now, and it is our most hotly anticipated episode ever. In this special extended episode, Andrew Edge and Hannah Slarks discuss the biggest employment judgment of 2025, Higgs v Farmor’s School [2025]... Read more
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We are delighted to announce that Cecilia Ivimy and Tom Cross have today been appointed as King’s Counsel, at a ceremony at the Palace of Westminster. Cecilia practices in public law, with a focus on judicial review, human rights and... Read more
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Trial in the Commercial Court in Public Institution For Social Security v Al Rajaan and others opens today. Amy Rogers KC appears for EFG Bank with Camilla Bingham KC and Harry Stratton, instructed by Susanna Charlwood and Matthew Skinner at A&O... Read more
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On 7 March 2025, the High Court dismissed the claim of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Banking for judicial review of the Financial Conduct Authority’s decision in 2021 not to seek to require banks to provide further redress to... Read more
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The Supreme Court will today and tomorrow hear the appeal in R (on the application of Jwanczuk) (Respondent) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Appellant). The appeal concerns a claim for bereavement support payment (“BSP”). BSP is a... Read more
