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R(Gallaher) v Competition and Markets Authority and the Search for the Principle of Equal Treatment
Fred Allen
10 May 2019
KN Green Week: Can law help save the world?
We have seen in recent months various and different attempts by those who want to change the course of government policy on the issue of climate change.
3 April 2019
Court finds approach by DWP to Universal Credit ‘odd in the extreme’
The High Court judgment of R (Johnson, Woods, Barrett and Stewart) v SSWP [2019]EWHC 23 (Admin) involved a judicial review challenge to the method of calculating universal credit. The claimants successfully demonstrated that the DWP’s method of calculation was an incorrect interpretation of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 (the Regulations) as it failed to account for circumstances where workers’ pay dates do not converge with the fixed assessment periods under the universal credit scheme.
1 April 2019
Judicial Review costs – a missed opportunity to extend access to justice
In its consultation “Extending Fixed Recoverable Costs in Civil Cases: Implementing Sir Rupert Jackson’s proposals”, which was launched on 28 March 2019, the Ministry of Justice has failed to take forward a proposal that could have had a significant impact on the ability of individuals to hold public bodies to account through judicial review proceedings.
7 January 2019
“A sorry state of affairs” – Lazarov v Bulgaria and R (Lazarov) v Westminster Magistrates’ Court
In the case of Lazarov v Bulgaria the High Court found itself in some legal difficulty as it sought to deal with an appeal against an extradition judgment from Westminster Magistrates’ Court that was replete with mistakes.
12 December 2018
Judicial review and secondary legislation: What power does the court have to fix broken legislation?
In the fourth post in our Public Law team’s blog series, Emily Carter examines the powers of the court to review the hundreds of pieces of secondary legislation being swiftly created in preparation for Brexit.
