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…
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Deliveroo riders are not workers
In the Deliveroo case the Central Arbitration Committee (“CAC”) had decided that meal delivery riders were not “workers” because they could use substitutes to do…
Read MoreHigh Court upholds legality of the UK’s new Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme
The High Court has handed down judgment in Elliott-Smith v Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy [2021] EWHC 1633 (Admin), a significant…
Read MoreEmployment Appeal Tribunal hands down important judgment on protected beliefs under the Equality Act 2010
In a significant judgment in Forstater v CGD Europe & others UKEAT/0105/20/JOJ, 10 June 2021, the EAT has overturned the Employment Tribunal’s finding that the…
Read MoreJason Coppel KC and Patrick Halliday succeed in Good Law Project challenge to award of contract to friends of Dominic Cummings
In R (Good Law Project) v Minister for the Cabinet Office [2021] EWHC 1569 (TCC) (the “Public First” case), the High Court has ruled that…
Read MoreChristopher Knight in Appeal finding that Data Protection Exemption for Immigration Processing Breaches the GDPR
In R (Open Rights Group & the3million) v Secretary of State for the Home Department & Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport [2021]…
Read More25 May 2021: judgment given by Grand Chamber of ECtHR in Big Brother Watch and ors v United Kingdom: Julian Milford KC of 11KBW for the UK Government
The Grand Chamber of the ECtHR has today (25 May 2021) given a 203-page judgment in the important Big Brother Watch case, in which the…
Read MoreJulian Blake and Rupert Paines in Drones FOIA challenge
The Financial Times (here) and Guardian (here) have reported on a challenge concerning the release of the Ministry of Defence’s Targeting Policy (Joint Services Publication…
Read MoreJoanne Clement acts in important case on diplomatic immunity and Article 3 and 6 of the ECHR
Diplomatic immunity does not breach Article 3 or 6 of the ECHR In London Borough of Barnet v The Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth…
Read MoreRobin Hopkins, Christopher Knight, and Rupert Paines act in Lloyd v Google Supreme Court interventions
The much-anticipated appeal in Google LLC v LLoyd will be heard next week by the Supreme Court. The appeal raises two issues: · Is it legitimate to bring…
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