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About
Provided by Patrick Halliday
Practice Areas
Procurement; employment; public; pensions; commercial.
Career
Called 2005, Gray's Inn. Former pupil to Philip Sales (now Lord Sales). Specialist in procurement, employment (including High Court claims against former employees), pensions (especially JR claims, public sector schemes and discrimination) and public law.
Recent cases include:
R. (British Gas Trading Ltd) v Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero [2023] EWHC 737 (Admin) (subsidy control); Manning v Walker Crips Investment Management Ltd [2023] EAT 79 (employment/worker status); Practice Plus Group Ltd v NHS Commissioning Board [2022] EWHC 2082 (TCC) (procurement, automatic suspension); R (Efthimiou) v City of London [2022] EWHC 1588 (Admin) (public/discrimination, charges at Hampstead Ponds); R (Gardner) v SoS for Health and Social Care [2022] PTSR 1338 (public, care homes deaths during pandemic); R (Good Law Project) v SoS for Health [2022] PTSR 644 (procurement, unlawful ‘VIP’ lane); R (Enterprise Managed Service Ltd) v SoS for Housing, Communities and Local Government [2021] Pens LR 15 (pensions, LGPS exit credits); Lloyds Banking Group Pensions Trustees Ltd v Lloyds Bank Plc [2021] Pens LR 10 (pensions, equalisation of GMPs, transfers out); R (BT plc) v HM Treasury [2020] EWCA Civ 1 (pensions, indexation); Curless v Shell International Ltd [2020] ICR 431 (employment, privilege).
Professional Memberships
ELBA; ELA; ALBA; PLA; UKSALA; Combar.
Publications
Joint editor of 11KBW's Procurement Law Newsletter.
Personal
Pembroke College, Cambridge (first class degree in Social and Political Sciences, Foundation Scholar); City University (CPE, Distinction).