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All the latest updates and news from Good Law Project
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21 March 2023News Water company told its business model is “based on breaching statutory duties” over sewage discharges into Manchester Ship CanalWater company told its business model is “based on breaching statutory duties” over sewage discharges into Manchester Ship Canal
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16 March 2023News REVEALED: Tory donor’s firm lobbied health minister two weeks before landing controversial hotel quarantine contractREVEALED: Tory donor’s firm lobbied health minister two weeks before landing controversial hotel quarantine contract
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13 March 2023News £250m wasted on ‘VIP’ Covid tests£250m wasted on ‘VIP’ Covid tests
An investigation by Good Law Project has revealed the Department of Health and Social Care wasted a staggering £246.6m of taxpayers’ money procuring 126 million “unusable” Covid tests.
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10 March 2023News HMRC and the £600m tax loopholeHMRC and the £600m tax loophole
One of Britain’s most controversial tax loopholes might not even exist at all. It’s time for HMRC to apply the law properly.
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10 March 2023News How we work with partnersHow we work with partners
An update from our Executive Director, Jo Maugham, on our partnership programme.
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9 March 2023News NEW: The Government’s failure to publish an updated list of ministers’ financial interests may be unlawful. We’re taking action.NEW: The Government’s failure to publish an updated list of ministers’ financial interests may be unlawful. We’re taking action.
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7 March 2023Case Update Good Law Project takes legal action to protect unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the UKGood Law Project takes legal action to protect unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the UK
Good Law Project is bringing a set of legal challenges to seek the proper protection of children without any parent or guardian who are seeking asylum in the UK.
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6 March 2023News Environmental Charity, backed by Good Law Project, in the Supreme Court todayEnvironmental Charity, backed by Good Law Project, in the Supreme Court today
The water company, United Utilities, is being challenged in the Supreme Court today over its attempt to escape legal accountability for sewage dumping. The Environmental Law Foundation, supported by us, is intervening with the permission of the Supreme Court.
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3 March 2023News Government finally publishes missing £248m ventilator contracts and reveals it hired a firm to destroy unused equipmentGovernment finally publishes missing £248m ventilator contracts and reveals it hired a firm to destroy unused equipment
The Cabinet Office have finally published the remaining Covid Ventilator Challenge contracts – and the waste is shocking.
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2 March 2023Case Update Victory: Green light given for legal fight against fossil fuel drilling in the Surrey HillsVictory: Green light given for legal fight against fossil fuel drilling in the Surrey Hills
We are delighted that campaigners from Protect Dunsfold- who we have been supporting- have been given permission by the High Court to challenge the Government’s approval of a gas exploration scheme on the edge of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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2 March 2023Case Update Partygate: We cannot appeal the High Court’s decision to reject our legal challengePartygate: We cannot appeal the High Court’s decision to reject our legal challenge
Rules of court mean we cannot appeal the decision of the High Court to bless the Metropolitan Police’s Partygate investigation into former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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1 March 2023Case Update We’re in court tomorrow to continue the fight against fossil fuel drilling in the Surrey HillsWe’re in court tomorrow to continue the fight against fossil fuel drilling in the Surrey Hills
Tomorrow, we will be in the High Court to support a campaigning group in their bid to resume a legal challenge against fossil fuel drilling on the edge of the Surrey Hills.
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1 March 2023News Hancock WhatsApps expose threadbare FOIA regimeHancock WhatsApps expose threadbare FOIA regime
Lawyers acting for Good Law Project have today written to the Information Commissioner’s Office asking it to refer the Department of Health and Social Care to the High Court for potential contempt of court proceedings after the DHSC, once again, failed to release Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages.
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1 March 2023Case Update Supreme Court rules in favour of our landmark park sell-off caseSupreme Court rules in favour of our landmark park sell-off case
The Supreme Court today ruled in favour of a Good Law Project-funded case about whether planning permission should have been granted for a piece of sold-off parkland. The ruling will help set a new precedent for how public green spaces are sold by local authorities in years to come.
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28 February 2023Case Update The Government is still “considering” how to improve its Net Zero Strategy with just a month to goThe Government is still “considering” how to improve its Net Zero Strategy with just a month to go
Last July, we won a legal challenge, brought together with Client Earth, Friends of the Earth and environmental campaigner, Joanna Wheatley, against the Government to force it to improve its inadequate and unlawful Net Zero Strategy.
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27 February 2023News MP’s daughter threatened to sue for ‘VIP lane’ commissionMP’s daughter threatened to sue for ‘VIP lane’ commission
Victoria Aitken claimed “I had it fast-tracked” and demanded commission on “all the contracts that came via [her] connections”. But the Government’s published record of the VIP lane doesn’t mention Victoria Aitken at all.