16 July 2024
(Another) legal duty of candour on public servants and authorities?
Labour’s manifesto promises a ‘Hillsborough Law’ which will place a legal duty of candour on public servants and authorities. But what are the implications?
24 June 2024
Supreme Court clarifies the law on 'downstream' emissions and Environmental Impact Assessments
A year on from hearing a ground-breaking challenge concerning the duty on planning authorities to consider “downstream” emissions when deciding planning applications, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in R(Finch) v Surrey County Council and ors [2024] UKSC 20 on Thursday morning (20 June 2024).
3 June 2024
Identity matters
In his leading judgment in Secretary of State for the Home Department and another v R (on the application of IAB & others) [2024] EWCA Civ 66, [2024]All ER (D) 128 (Mar), Lord Justice Bean
branded the government’s routine practice of redacting civil servants’ names from documents for disclosure in judicial review proceedings ‘inimical to open government and unsupported by authority’.
9 May 2024
The Rwanda Act: a constitutional crisis?
We are in unprecedented territory, writes Lord (Harry) Carter of Haslemere. So what will our courts do next?
17 April 2024
Landmark ECtHR judgment turns the dial on climate change litigation
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has delivered its much-awaited judgments in three high-profile climate change cases.