Posts by James Neill

  • UK Government announces settlement of the Magnox procurement litigation

    On 27th March 2017 the Energy Secretary Greg Clark announced that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority had settled the long-running damages claim brought against it by Energy Solutions and Bechtel arising out of the procurement competition for the £14bn contract to decommission the UK’s  12 Magnox reactors. 

  • Third party funding of judicial review – what lies beneath?

    Andrew Denny and James Neill, Allen & Overy LLP consider the government’s consultation on the proposed  rules which will require individuals to produce financial information at the outset of a judicial review claim. This post will be of interest to all those advising on the funding of judicial review claims.