This afternoon the Divisional Court handed down its long-awaited judgment in R (Hollow) v Surrey County Council [2019] EWHC 618, which was headline news when…
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11KBW’s Peter Oldham QC and Jen Coyne successful in resisting claim under the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
Peter Oldham QC and Jen Coyne appeared for the local authority in R (B) v Neath Port Talbot CBC on 12th March 2019 in which…
Read MoreJason Coppel QC and Sean Aughey, together with David Anderson QC, have advised the People Vote’s Campaign on the legal effect of the measures announced by the Government and the EU late on 11 March 2019
Their Opinion, cited by Dominic Grieve MP, on the Today Programme this morning, considers those measures against the previous advice of the Attorney General on the Northern Ireland backstop,…
Read MoreJoseph 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…
Read MoreHigh 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…
Read MoreChristopher 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…
Read MoreCourt 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…
Read MoreDissenting 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…
Read MoreNHS 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…
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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…
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