Administrative and Public Law Notes

Government's terms of reference for review of the judicial review process

Judicial reviews of inquiries

Upper Tribunal considers what constitutes a public authority under the Environmental Information Regulations

The Upper Tribunal (the “UT”) in Information Commissioner v Poplar Housing Association and Regeneration Community Association [2020] UKUT 182 (AAC) …

Government launches panel to consider the judicial review process

On the afternoon of Friday 31 July the Government announced that it had appointed a panel of experts (the “Panel”) to examine if there is a need to …

Judicial Review – Strategies for Pharmaceutical Companies

In the latest episode of HSF's webinar series on the pharmaceutical sector, Andrew Lidbetter, Sanam Zulfiqar Khan, Mark Smyth and Lourdes Fraguas discuss …

Prime Minister commits to a future independent inquiry into Government's handling of the COVID-19 crisis

Public Law Horizon-Scanning Podcast Series

Supreme Court challenge succeeds on the basis of unlawful delegation by a Minister

In R v Adams [2020] UKSC 19 the Supreme Court considered the nature and application of the principle established in Carltona Ltd v Commissioners of Works …

Administrative Court refuses permission to legal challenge to the UK Government’s lockdown regulations

Dolan & Ors v Secretary of State for Health And Social Care & Anor [2020] EWHC 1786 (Admin) A claim brought by the entrepreneur Simon Dolan and …

COVID-19: Pressure Points: Regulatory tolerance in an age of COVID-19 – Can regulators revise concessions they have offered?

Regulatory disputes in the consumer sector

Businesses who deal with consumers will generally wish to have a good relationship with Government, regulators and other public authorities. However, …

Emerging from the lockdown – significant changes introduced to the key regulations

As the UK moves to the next phase of its COVID-19 response, the Government has increasingly started looking at ways to lift the lockdown and restart the …