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The first hearings of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry commenced yesterday. Previously a non-statutory inquiry, the Inquiry was put on a statutory footing under the Inquiries Act 2005 on 1st June 2021, following the judgment of the Court of Appeal quashing... Read more
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Kellogg Brown & Root Limited v MOPAC & MPS [2021] EWHC 3321 (TCC) The High Court (Joanna Smith J) has ruled that the automatic suspension should be lifted in respect of a c. £400m framework agreement being let for use... Read more
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In R (OK) v The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Doctors of the World; Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2021] EWHC 3165 (Admin) (26 November 2021), the High Court (Ritchie J) dismissed a judicial review test case that... Read more
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The High Court has granted permission to apply for judicial review in respect of legal proceedings arising from the award of substantial public contracts by the Department for Health and Social Care to clients of Tulchan Communications, the lobbying firm... Read more
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On 27 July 2021 the Independent Inquiry published its report on the ‘Children in the care of Lambeth Council’ strand of the Inquiry. ‘Children in the care of Lambeth Council’ examined the scale and nature of the sexual abuse experienced by... Read more
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Biffa Waste Services Limited v Leicestershire County Council [2021] EWHC 1764 (TCC) On 28 May 2021, the High Court (Joanna Smith J) dismissed Biffa’s application for summary judgment on claims under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (“the PCR 2015”) for... Read more
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In R (Schofield) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 902 (Admin) the Divisional Court (Singh LJ and Julian Knowles J) dismissed a root-and-branch challenge to the compatibility of the UK’s statutory ban on the admissibility of... Read more
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The Good Law Project recently obtained permission to bring judicial review proceedings in relation to DHSC’s award of several contracts (worth at least £90m) for the development and supply of lateral flow antibody tests, to a consortium led by Abingdon... Read more
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Daniel Stilitz KC and Joseph Barrett acted successfully for the Secretary of State, defending the scheme of the trade union recognition legislation against a challenge by the IWGB. The union had argued that the legislation was incompatible with Article 11... Read more
