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Jane McCafferty appointed Queens Counsel
We are delighted to announce that Jane McCafferty has been appointed to Silk. Members of 11KBW offer her our warmest congratulations.
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Joseph Barrett and Zac Sammour succeed in strike out, specific disclosure and indemnity costs applications in major Defence procurement challenge
On 27 and 28 February 2019, the High Court (Fraser J) gave judgment on two applications arising in proceedings brought by Serco against the Secretary of State for Defence (“the SSD”) under the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011... Read more
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High court rules government’s fracking guidelines ‘unlawful’
Stephenson v Secretary of State for Housing and Communities and Local Government [2019] EWHC 519 (Admin) In a case brought by anti-fracking campaign group Talk Fracking, the court found that the government had purported to consult on the merits of... Read more
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Christopher Knight in UKIP Information Notice Appeal
In the first appellate decision to consider the Information Commissioner’s powers to issue an information notice under the Data Protection Act 1998, the Upper Tribunal upheld the validity of a notice issued against the political party UKIP. The notice was... Read more
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Court of Appeal dismisses Article 50 Brexit challenge
R (Wilson & Ors) v Prime Minister Following a day long oral hearing, the Court of Appeal (Hickinbottom and Haddon-Cave LJJ) has dismissed a wide-ranging crowd-funded claim for judicial review which sought to challenge the outcome of the EU Referendum, the... Read more
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Dissenting director in breach of contractual and fiduciary duties
Today the High Court gave judgment in Stobart Group Ltd v Tinkler [2019] EWHC 258 (Comm), a high profile boardroom dispute at the FTSE 250 company involving its former CEO. As the judge put it: “Reduced to basics, the essential... Read more
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NHS defeats challenge to £1bn drugs procurement
AbbVie Limited v NHS England [2019] EWHC 61 (TCC) The procurement NHSE England sought to procure £1bn worth of treatments for Hepatitis C. It adopted an sophisticated methodology for evaluating bids and awarding contracts, informed by ‘game theory’. A ‘whole... Read more
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Glass houses
Aileen was instructed by Tate in its successful defence of an action brought by neighbours of the Tate Modern who complained that the operation of Tate Modern’s viewing gallery amounted to a nuisance and infringed their rights to private life.... Read more
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Aileen McColgan and Tom Cross in rare and important SEN judicial review
The High Court yesterday handed down judgment in R (An Academy) v Medway Council and Secretary of State for Education. This was a comparatively rare judicial review challenge in the area of special educational needs; many such disputes are dealt... Read more