Administrative and Public Law Notes

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 …

The Commercial Court holds contract with public body to be ultra vires and void

In School Facility Management Ltd & Others v Governing Body of Christ The King College & Isle of Wight Council [2020] EWHC 1118 (Comm), the High …

COVID-19: Pressure Points: Learning lessons from the crisis – a COVID-19 inquiry?

Statutory guidance must remain within the purpose of the primary legislation

In R (on the application of Palestine Solidarity Campaign Ltd) v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government [2020] UKSC 16, the …

Public Procurement Podcast Series

COVID-19: Pressure Points: The UK's legislative response to the crisis

In this special episode of our Public Law Podcast, Andrew Lidbetter and Nusrat Zar discuss the UK's legislative response to the COVID-19 crisis. …

Supreme Court confirms broader scope for challenging deportation under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights

The Supreme Court this week handed down judgment in AM (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 17, clarifying the scope for …

Court of Appeal considers the legality of policies

In Bayer Plc v NHS Darlington Clinical Commissioning Groups [2020] EWCA Civ 449 the Court of Appeal had to consider the legality of a policy issued by …

Navigating Public Procurement in the COVID-19 era

As with almost all areas of commercial activity, public procurement across all sectors is currently experiencing varying degrees of extreme disruption. …

COVID-19 Pressure Points: The Right to Property

The current pandemic has led to an extraordinary level of state action. In many cases this has involved interference with the private rights of …