Public Law weekly highlights—3 April 2025
This week's edition of Public Law weekly highlights includes the Public Law case law quarterly for Q1 2025 and expert analysis of the decision in Merck Serono v Comptroller-General, in which the Court of Appeal considered the law of precedent and the court’s power to deviate from assimilated EU case law. Also in this edition, a reminder of upcoming court fee increases, emergency legislation to prevent new Sentencing Council guidelines from taking effect, further draft legislation revoking legacy public procurement regulations, launch of the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority, publication of eight draft codes of practice under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, plus discussion of developments in UK statutory interpretation principles. Case updates include a recent decision to lift the automatic suspension in a public procurement challenge, a successful human rights challenge against a decision by the Director of Legal Aid Casework, plus a number of judicial review and freedom of information cases. The highlights include further updates on Brexit SIs, Post-Brexit transition guidance, constitutional and administrative law, Coronavirus (COVID-19), judicial review, equality and human rights, public procurement, state accountability and liability, subsidy control and State aid, information law and other Public Law news.
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