The Divisional Court (Rabinder Singh LJ and Collins Rice J) will today hear argument in multiple commercial judicial review claims brought by a number of major tech companies in relation to Ofcom’s launch of a new rolling data-gathering regime.
Amy Rogers KC and Rupert Paines act for X, instructed by James Wood and Andrew Lidbetter of Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP.
Christopher Knight KC and Hannah Slarks act for Meta, instructed by Rory Hishon and Jenna Rennie of White and Case LLP.
This is the second judicial review concerning the Online Safety Act 2023 to come to Court. Members of 11KBW also acted in the first such case, R (Wikimedia) v Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology [2026] 1 WLR 964.
