Public Law weekly highlights—13 July 2023

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This week's edition of Public Law weekly highlights includes an announcement that the G7 will discuss Ukraine’s legal system, an interesting keynote speech by the Attorney General on the rule of law and the dismissal of the government's judicial review concerning the powers of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. Also featured are selected Brexit headlines, including a meeting of the Parliamentary Partnership Assembly (PPA) in Brussels. This edition further includes updates on constitutional and administrative law, judicial review, equality and human rights, public procurement, subsidy control and State aid and other Public Law updates. Case analysis this week includes comment on the government’s failed Covid-19 Inquiry challenge, a Court of Appeal ruling on cost capping in subsidy control claims, further consideration of the impact of Maguire and examination of a case which considered whether veganism amounts to a protected belief under the Equality Act 2010.