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Good Law Project judicial review today

Started by Fambo Number Mive, February 15, 2021, 05:58:04 PM

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Fambo Number Mive

@GoodLawProject

QuoteToday is our judicial review hearing over the Government contract awarded to friends of Dominic Cummings at Public First without competition.

We'll be tweeting live from 10.30am.

You can see the tweets from the judicial review here: https://twitter.com/GoodLawProject/status/1361233601426313221

According to the director Jolyon Maughan:

QuoteWe are awed by the astonishing 10,709 donations to our crowdfunder.

However, Government has run up a jaw-dropping bill of an estimated £500-600k defending this one day judicial review of a contract worth £564,000. So we have left the crowdfunder open.

You can see further documents, including an extract from the National Audit Office, at the Good Law Project website: https://goodlawproject.org/case/money-for-dominic-cummings-mates/

Fambo Number Mive

And yes this is a crap opening post to this thread, although it's difficult when most of the information is on Twitter.

Can anyone do any better?

Fambo Number Mive

Good Law Project claim Johnson has misled Parliament:

Quote3 days after the High Court ruled Government had acted unlawfully by failing to publish Covid contracts, Boris Johnson stood up in the House of Commons and reassured MPs and the public that all Covid-related contracts were "on the record". However, the final Order handed down by the Judge today shows that what the Prime Minister told the House was not true.

The Judge confirmed:

"The Defendant has published 608 out of 708 relevant contracts for supplies and services relating to COVID-19 awarded on or before 7 October 2020. In some or all of these cases, the Defendant acted unlawfully by failing to publish the contracts within the period set out in the Crown Commercial Service's Publication of Central Government Tenders and Contracts: Central Government Transparency Guidance Note (November 2017)."

Remarkably, the Judge's Order is based on Government's own figures – so at the same time as Johnson was falsely reassuring MPs, Government lawyers were preparing a statement contradicting him – revealing 100 contracts and dozens of Contract Award Notices were missing from the public record. You can read the final Court Order here and consequential judgment in full here.

Over the course of our judicial review, Government made no less than four attempts to provide an accurate witness statement setting out the number of contracts and Contract Award Notices that had been published late – and they kept getting it wrong. As late as the hearing itself, they said they had published 28% of Contract Award Notices within the 30 day legal limit.

But when asked by the Judge to follow up with evidence of the figures so he could make his final Order, it transpired that Government had actually only published3% of CANs in the legal timeframe...

https://goodlawproject.org/update/johnson-misled-parliament/