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We are delighted that the Marine Conservation Society has now joined as a co-claimant in our legal case to protect our coastal waters from sewage dumping.     

Good Law Project is delighted to announce the opening of its Scotland office. We have a proud history of litigating in the Scottish courts and we believe Scotland is an important jurisdiction from which to hold power to account. But our expansion is forward looking.

When the Government intervened to introduce the Energy Price Guarantee, capping costs at a lower rate, we paused our Ofgem challenge to assess what the Guarantee meant for our legal arguments.

Charity Commission are reviewing our evidence and investigating the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

Good Law Project is concerned about how the Elections Act 2022 could specifically disenfranchise young people. The vast majority of voter IDs approved by the Government are available to older people, whilst very few are targeted at people under 60.

We’ll be in court at the end of the month to challenge NHS England over long-standing, lengthy and unlawful delays to meeting the trans community’s healthcare needs.

We’re pleased to share with you the first phase of our work to re-imagine Good Law Project. We have a new website and you will have noticed that our logo, font and colour scheme have all changed.

In September 2020 – and then again in August 2021 – Government handed huge sums of public money over to a company called Immensa to carry out Covid testing: first £119m and then a further £50m.

Over the last two days, Good Law Project has been in the Court of Appeal to challenge the High Court’s decision to allow the widespread use of personal phones, private emails and instant messaging by Ministers, their advisors and senior civil servants, to conduct important Government business.

Good Law Project will be in the Court of Appeal on Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th November to challenge the High Court’s decision to allow the Government’s wide-scale use of private emails and messaging apps to conduct official business.

We’ll be in court next week for the final stage of the hearing of Mermaids versus the Charity Commission regarding the charity status of LGB ‘Alliance’. After witness evidence was concluded in September 2022, the Tribunal will hear legal arguments in the case on November 7 and 8. A judgment can be issued at any point from next week, but we expect a delay possibly of months. 

We have just heard that the Supreme Court has given us permission for our appeal to be heard in regards to the service error made by external solicitors in one of our cases. The case relates to £100m+ worth of public contracts and evidence that Ministers and an ex-adviser to the Prime Minister actively helped favoured bidders to win the contracts.

Good Law Project has commissioned ground-breaking polling from YouGov to gauge the level of trust different segments of society have in the judiciary.

For over a year, we have worked to uncover the identities of the politically-connected companies who received preferential access to a priority route to the contracts awarded as part of the Government’s multi-billion pound Test and Trace programme.

Rishi Sunak has performed a screeching u-turn to attend COP27.

On Saturday 5th November, the National Trust, beloved by many across the country and internationally, will decide on its new council members.