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UK Public Law Case Update Q1 2025: Key rulings on human rights, citizenship, immigration, policing, media regulation, procurement, state immunity, subsidy control and judicial review

Published on: 28 March 2025

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Editor’s note—Anurag Deb, PhD researcher at the School of Law, Queens University, Belfast

Welcome to the inaugural 2025 issue of the Public Law Case Law Quarterly, bringing together summaries and analysis of pivotal judgments chosen by the Lexis+ UK Public Law team, complemented by expert comment from a range of specialist contributors.

This instalment spans a broad spectrum of public law matters, from human rights to the ongoing effects of Brexit, public procurement, and even State immunity.

Notable among the cases is Department for Justice v JR123, where the Supreme Court endorsed Northern Ireland’s offender rehabilitation regime, holding that the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 strikes a fair equilibrium between Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the public interest.

Also significant is R (GB News Ltd) v Ofcom, in which the High Court overturned Ofcom’s finding that ‘Jacob Rees-Mogg’s State of the Nation’ breached due impartiality rules, marking the first time Ofcom has been unsuccessful in a judicial review concerning the Broadcasting Code...

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