Recent weeks have seen a number of notable developments concerning new or proposed legislation which could have a wide-ranging impact on aspects of public and administrative law. In particular: The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 has recently received Royal Assent and introduces, amongst other things, changes to remedies in judicial review. The Queen’s Speech, … Read more

In R (Gardner and Harris) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and others [2022] EWHC 967 (Admin) the Divisional Court has found that arrangements by the Department of Health for discharging patients from hospitals to care homes during the pandemic were unlawful. Key points Article 2 of the European Convention on Human … Read more

The High Court has clarified that complaints of unfair consultation relating to the introduction of primary legislation cannot found a ground of challenge by way of judicial review (R (on the application of A) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWHC 360). Key points The principles on which the law of Parliamentary … Read more

The main window for response to the Government’s consultation paper on the reform of the Human Rights Act 1998 (“HRA“) has now closed. The consultation paper proposed an overhaul of the existing human rights regime in the UK by replacing the HRA with a new Bill of Rights. The proposals involved giving greater legislative guidance … Read more