“What happens when one public body pays for a service that ought to have been provided by another? That was the question facing Thornton J in Surrey County Council v NHS Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group [2020] EWHC 3550 (QB); [2021] 2 WLR 805. Her judgment shows that 30 years after the ‘swaps’ cases, public law errors still provide fertile ground for the growth of restitutionary principles. The factual background is relatively simple …”
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Matthew Hoyle, ‘Splitting the difference: Surrey CC v NHS Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group and contribution between public bodies’ (2021) 137 Law Quarterly Review (Oct) 537.
First posted 2021-09-18 12:00:47
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