OPINION
— Fourteen years of Tory rule have caused incalculable harm. This morning we can breathe a sigh of relief. But Labour won’t be able to fix all the problems. We’ve been thinking hard about our work under a new government.
Good Law Project
Good Law Project is a not-for-profit campaign organisation that uses the law to protect the interests of the public.
Environment
— The Government has announced a consultation on expanding its plan to reduce sewage dumping in coastal and estuarine waters, in response to a legal challenge supported by Good Law Project and other environmental groups.
Pollution
— Good Law Project are supporting three legal challenges to protect our coastline and rivers from pollution.
Good Law Project
— The Cabinet Office have finally published the remaining COVID Ventilator Challenge contracts – and the waste is shocking.
Environment
— The High Court has ordered Ministers to update their plan and demonstrate how policies will achieve Net Zero climate targets by March 2023. Despite this, the Government is only “considering the next steps”.
Environment
— Many of our vital environmental laws and protections are being put at risk by the long and dark shadow of Brexit. It beggars belief that this comes at a time when the Government should be urgently strengthening and expediting our response to the ongoing climate emergency.
COVID-19 Government Contracts
— After breaching transparency guidelines, the UK government commits to publishing £248 million worth of missing COVID-19 contracts.
COMMENT
— Has Rishi Sunak benefitted from Government contracts during the pandemic? A hedge fund, where the Prime Minister was a founding partner, has seen its profits more than double in a year.
Investigation
— For 17 months, the FCDO refused to answer our questions regarding Dominic Raab’s WhatsApp use. But, following an intervention from the ICO, they’ve finally come clean.
COMMENT
— Introductions from just six Conservative Party politicians led to ‘VIPs’ being awarded contracts worth an eye-watering £5 billion.
COMMENT
— Water companies dumping sewage poses a serious threat to a 300-year-old oyster family business and to marine life if they are allowed to continue.
COMMENT
— A £4.5 million Government contract has been handed to a company headed up by a major Conservative Party donor to dispose of unused PPE, Good Law Project can reveal.
Online Safety
— Frankie took her own life after months of being served up self-harm content. Her parents pleaded with the platform for information; for months all they got were automated responses.
COMMENT
— Attempts to enforce new Voter ID requirements could lead to many thousands of voters being turned away. Here is why it is going to be tough to challenge the Government's ruse to stop young people voting.
COMMENT
— Giving the green light to water firms to routinely discharge sewage for decades to come is not only dangerous, but unlawful.
COMMENT
— Lawyers have uncovered conduct by a 55 Tufton Street charity which appears to breach charity law. A cross-party group of MPs has written to ask the Charity Commission why it is allowing Tufton Street dark money to pretend to be for the public good – and claim top ups from the public purse.
