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11 July 2025
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Law digests: 11 July 2025

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Administrative law

R (on the application of Matthew Campbell) v HM Attorney General for England and Wales [2025] EWHC 1653 (Admin)

The Administrative Court ruled on whether the Attorney General’s decision to refuse consent under s 13(1)(b) of the Coroners Act 1988 for judicial review proceedings was justiciable. The court determined that the Attorney General's function, falling within public interest functions akin to gatekeeping legal proceedings, is immune from review under established legal precedents. Even if justiciable, the grounds advanced by the claimant were deemed insufficient to challenge the decision.

Constitutional law

R (on the application of Al-Haq) v Secretary of State for Business and Trade [2025] EWHC 1615 (Admin)

The Administrative Court refused the claimant, a human rights organisation, permission to bring a judicial review claim of the decision of the secretary of state to exclude components for F-35 combat aircraft from the suspension of military exports to Israel (the ‘F-35 carve out’) from the export of items that might be used in carrying out or facilitating Israeli military

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NLJ this week: Renters’ Rights revolution begins—brace for tribunal chaos
he abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
NLJ this week: Civil procedure gets a spring overhaul
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
NLJ this week: Why GP complaints are going nowhere
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
NLJ this week: Prenups meet a jurisdictional brick wall
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
NLJ this week: Has Rylands v Fletcher come back from the dead?
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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