The First-Tier Tribunal’s decision in Department of Health v IC, John Healey MP and Nicholas Cecil (EA/2011/0286 & 287) played a central role in the highly-charged political debates about the Health and Social Care Act. The Tribunal dismissed the Department’s appeal in part, but was unable to give written reasons before the Act entered the statute books. The Tribunal’s written reasons have now been promulgated and are available here:

2012_04_05; DOH v IC Healey final decision

Panopticon analysis will follow, but we thought some of our readers would like a hot-off-the-press look at the decision in the interim.

Robin Hopkins