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An update on our judicial review of serious shortage protocols.
Yesterday we learned that the High Court had refused permission to appeal. You can read the refusal here d2l6cjylzkj2qa.cloudfront.net/wp-content/upl…
Yesterday we learned that the High Court had refused permission to appeal. You can read the refusal here d2l6cjylzkj2qa.cloudfront.net/wp-content/upl…
We are not in the habit of criticising decisions of the Court but we think the reasoning is very poor and we have asked the Court for an urgent oral permission hearing. We will, of course, keep you updated.
We are also concerned that the permission decision was made on Friday and the Govt seems to have been told on Friday (see this extract from a debate yesterday about serious shortage protocols hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019-0…) but when we spoke to the Court on Friday it refused to tell us. 
We continue to believe it is critically important to establish whether what Government describes as a "thoroughly important measure... to address serious drug shortages... in the event of a no deal Brexit" is lawful.
But we need your financial support. It is highly irresponsible for Govt to choose to take the country off a cliff whilst serious doubts remain about a key plank in its planning to deal with No Deal. crowdjustice.com/case/not-ready…
It has been pointed out to us that the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State may just have been saying that the decision was made last week and leaving open the possibility that she found out on the morning of the debate. We acknowledge that could be so.
