Article by Jonathan Lewis: Public procurement judicial review—disclosure and expert evidence

Lexis Nexis Public Law analysis written by Jonathan Lewis.

The Good Law Project (GLP), a not-for-profit campaign organisation, judicially reviewed the award of certain contracts by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (SSHCS) to the Interested Party (Abingdon) for the manufacture and supply of rapid coronavirus (COVID-19) antibody tests. As regularly occurs with procurement judicial reviews, this claim was transferred from the Administrative Court to the Technology and Construction Court (TCC). The case came before Mr Justice Fraser on an interlocutory basis to deal with case management issues. He ordered the SSHCS to pro-vide further disclosure and refused to allow him to rely on an expert report which did not comply with the requirements of CPR 35.

This article was first published by Lexis®PSL on 8 October 2021

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