Public Law Notes

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. …

COVID-19 Pressure Points: The Right to Property

The current pandemic has led to an extraordinary level of state action. In many cases this has involved interference with the private rights of …

Covid-19 Pressure Points: Coronavirus Act formally on the statute books

Following our briefing paper of Monday 23 March 2020 (see here), the Coronavirus Bill has now passed through all stages in both the House of Commons and …

Covid-19 Pressure Points: UK Coronavirus Bill – Constitutional law implications