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Law digests: 21 May 2021

21 May 2021
Issue: 7933 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Costs

Re Good Law Project Ltd v Minister for the Cabinet Office [2021] EWHC 1083 (TCC), [2021] All ER (D) 24 (May)

The claimant company not-for-profit organisation successfully applied for a cost capping order, pursuant to s 88 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 in proceedings concerning a challenge by the defendant Cabinet Office, by way of judicial review, to the court’s decision that the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care had acted unlawfully by failing to comply with procurement law and policy in relation to the publication of contracts for goods and services awarded following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (see [2021] All ER (D) 27 (Mar)). The Technology and Construction Court held that, among other things, there was a matter of general public importance raised by the proceedings for the purposes of s 88(7)(a) of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 Act, and therefore the proceedings constituted public interest proceedings for the purposes of s 88(6)(a) of the Act.


European Union

Lipton and another

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

Group partner joins Guernsey banking and finance practice

Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

London labour and employment team announces partner hire

Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly

Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly

Double partner appointment marks Belfast expansion

NEWS
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Boris Johnson’s 2019 attempt to shut down Parliament remains a constitutional cautionary tale. The move, framed as a routine exercise of the royal prerogative, was in truth an extraordinary effort to sideline Parliament at the height of the Brexit crisis. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC dissects how prorogation was wrongly assumed to be beyond judicial scrutiny, only for the Supreme Court to intervene unanimously
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