AC-2025-LON-000553 - [2025] EWHC 2616 (Admin)

In due course the matter was listed for a one day substantive judicial review hearing to take place on 1 October 2025. The parties were informed of this on 4 July 2025.

When I started preparing for the hearing, I noted that the Court had not received any hearing bundles or skeleton arguments. I asked the Court lawyers to make enquiries. The Claimant’s solicitors then filed a hearing bundle on Friday 26 September 2025, and in due course a skeleton argument on Tuesday 30 September 2025 (i.e. the day before the hearing).

Before turning to the substantive questions that arise in this claim, I need to deal with the two procedural questions that have arisen. (1) What are the consequences of the Claimant’s failure to file a hearing bundle and a skeleton argument in accordance with the Court’s directions? (2) Should the Defendant’s application to vary the Deputy Judge’s 25 June 2025 costs order be granted?