Another High Court victory against the scumbag 'nasty party' !!!

The High Court has granted permission for our legal challenge to the “Levelling Up Fund”1. The huge £4.8bn fund pretends to be the centrepiece of a levelling up agenda – but we think it’s just a way to funnel money into constituencies of political benefit to the Conservative Party2.

This permission decision means the Government will have to defend itself in Court. It’s the latest in a string of permission decisions that have gone in Good Law Project’s favour. Of the 14 cases we have issued since the start of 2020, the Court has granted permission in 11 at the first time of asking. Since 20103, official statistics show that this has only happened in 17% of all judicial reviews. Good Law Project's success rate on the other hand is a staggering 78%. Judges clearly agree that the Government is acting in ways that deserve closer scrutiny and they see the importance of the cases we bring.

Building a judicial review that makes it to Court is no easy feat. It takes weeks, often months, of painstaking effort to identify the right legal point and gather evidence and witness statements to build a powerful case. We can only do this work because of monthly donations from people across the UK. Those contributions help to pay for the salaries of our small team of in-house lawyers and paralegals, our computers, and our office space. They help to keep Good Law Project going.

 

Several examples of austerity and funding cuts being used as a stick to punish constituencies and councils that dare to be critical of government policy, or even just not have a Tory MP. My constituency in the West Midlands have received more funding for development projects since December 2019 than it did throughout the entire previous parliament; the difference now? We returned a Tory MP in December 19 for the first time since 1997.

Groups like the Good Law Project fight a very important fight.

 

Yes, Pete matey, supported by me, amongst a host of others.