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The Green Bank Sale: public law challenges to the auction of state assets

On 7 April 2017, in R (SDC LLP) v Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy [2017] EWHC 771 (Admin), the High Court dismissed a judicial review challenge brought by a disappointed bidder to the decision by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to appoint a rival consortium as … Continue reading The Green Bank Sale: public law challenges to the auction of state assets

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.