Articles tagged "PPE"

Legal Director of Good Law Project, Gemma Abbott, provides a 2 minute update of week's court hearings against Tory government awarding multi-million pound contracts to friends & donors

Today the High Court heard Good Law Project lawyers detail waste, mismanagement - and yet more special treatment for politically connected companies placed in the “VIP” Lane.

Here are three of the most shocking revelations from Court.

On Tuesday 18 May 2021, the Good Law Project's legal challenge to the PPE procurement scandal will be heard in the High Court. It’s the first day of a mammoth 5 day hearing. 

Tory Minister brought a former Chair of the Tory Party, a man who now runs a lobbying firm, into the heart of Government

What Boris Johnson told Parliament was just not true

Good Law Project is now able to reveal the names of four more companies awarded contracts through the VIP lane: Clandeboye Agencies, P14 Medical, Luxe Lifestyle and Meller Designs

Award of Covid-19 contracts are genuine public interest issues, says court. Tory government looses argument for second time.

Explosive emails revealed in a hearing on our legal challenge over direct awards of PPE contracts show civil servants raising the alarm that they were "drowning in VIP requests" from political connections that do not have “the correct certification or pass due diligence”.

In this case Government's apparent amnesia when it comes to its legal obligations has prevented timely public scrutiny of a multi-million pound direct award to a Tory party member and donor

The Greensill/David Cameron scandal has once again exposed cronyism right at the heart of Government. The more we learn, the more shocking the revelations become

We will not be bullied by these costs.