Andrew Sharland KC was instructed by the Surveillance Camera Commissioner in the high profile judicial review challenge to South Wales Police’s use of face recognition…
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Supreme Court upholds revised benefit cap: it was not ‘manifestly without reasonable foundation’ to introduce it
In R (on the application of DA) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions/ R (on the application of DS) v Secretary of State…
Read MoreJoseph Barrett successful in NHS charging ECHR challenge
In R (ERA) v Basildon Hospital NHS Trust & Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2019] EWHC 1249 (Admin) the High Court (Kerr…
Read MoreR (Friends of the Earth) v SoS Transport [2019] EWHC 1070 (Admin)
One of five claims challenging the Airports National Policy Statement (ANPS), which gives policy support to a third runway at Heathrow, that were heard together…
Read MoreSupreme Court refuses permission for State aid appeal
The Supreme Court has today refused permission to appeal in R (Sky Blue Sports & Leisure Ltd) v Coventry City Council (No. 2) [2018] EWCA Civ 2252. …
Read MoreHigh Court hands down important judgment on local authority funding reductions
In R (AD & Ors) v London Borough of Hackney [2019] EWHC 943 (Admin), Mr Justice Supperstone rejected a multi-faceted challenge to Hackney’s provision of…
Read MoreDivisional Court dismisses challenge to local authority budget setting
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…
Read More11KBW’s Peter Oldham KC and Jen Coyne successful in resisting claim under the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
Peter Oldham KC 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 KC and Sean Aughey, together with David Anderson KC, 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…
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