We have written previously on the string of recent cases confirming that in judicial review litigation the duty of candour ordinarily requires the names of junior civil servants to be disclosed in unredacted form when providing disclosure.
In a recent decision – MTA v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Ors [2024] EWHC 553 (Admin) (“MTA”)
Court of Appeal confirms approach to redactions of names of junior civil servants
In a unanimous judgment, the Court of Appeal has dismissed the government’s appeal of a High Court judgment which proscribed the government’s practice of routinely redacting the names of junior civil servants when supplying disclosure in judicial review proceedings.
In a recent blog (please see here), we examined a judgment of the Administrative Court regarding the approach – in the context of judicial review litigation – to redactions of the identities of officials in disclosed documents. As noted in that blog, the Court, in an authoritative judgment, made clear its view that, in general, a litigant in judicial
The Administrative Court Guide (the “Guide”) is an important resource for judicial review practitioners. Whilst the Guide does not have the force of law, it is “essential reading for all those who practice in the Administrative Court” (R (DVP) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 606 (Admin) [8]). Accordingly, all those engaged in
Unlike in most civil claims, the parties in judicial review proceedings are usually not required to give standard disclosure, unless the court orders otherwise. However, judicial review proceedings are different. In judicial review litigation, parties are subject to a ‘duty of candour’ which requires them to co-operate and make candid disclosure of the relevant facts and (so far as they
In a major blow to the Government, new regulations which permitted employers to use agency workers to replace those on strike, has been found to be unlawful and so has been quashed, removing it from the statute books.
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