The Issue of Standing in Public Contracts

Court of appeal expressed significant concern about the trend towards allowing such public interest challenges to public contracts. High court concluded that runny mead trust a charity which exists specifically to promote the cause of racial equality had standing to challenge two appointments made without compliance to the public sector equality duty. The same approach was then taken to the good law project standing with the same conclusion in a further case that the good lawProject brought against the secretary of state for health and social care another covid case about contracts with abington health to supply lateral flow tests.