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,…
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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…
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…
Read MoreAileen 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…
Read MoreJonathan Auburn and Zoe Gannon appeared for the successful local authority in religious rights case in the Divisional Court
The Division Court, Lord Justice Singh and Mrs Justice Carr, today handed down judgment in The Queen (o.a.o Atta Ul Haq) v Walsall Metropolitan Borough…
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