Administrative and Public Law Notes

Tribunal holds that regulator must take proactive steps to investigate impact of COVID-19

In JD Sports Fashion plc v Competition and Markets Authority [2020] CAT 24, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (“CAT”) quashed the Competition and …

Challenge to lockdown regulations heard by the Court of Appeal – Judgment

Challenge to lockdown regulations heard by the Court of Appeal

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

Public Law Horizon-Scanning Podcast Series

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?

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 …

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

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. …

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. …