The curious incident of the settlement of the Robbins claim

How the government paid a large amount to get rid of a judicial review There is something curious about the reported settlement of the legal action brought by Olly Robbins against the United Kingdom government in respect of his sacking. The curious thing was that Robbins appears to have brought his legal action as a judicial review. To bring a claim by this procedure, rather than as a straight damages claim under contract and/or employment law, was unusual. A judicial review can include a claim for damages, and this claim seems to have included such a claim for damages, but the damages claim did not feature in any of the public statements of those involved. It is a sufficiently unusual way of bringing such a claim that some comment seems appropriate. * A judicial review at the High Court will assess the legality of a government action. Attaching a damages claim is rare. Usually judicial reviews do not involve any dispute of evidence, or discovery/disclosure of documents, or…