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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Challenge to government’s lateral flow test contracts rejected by high court

Lateral flow tests.
The Good Law Project brought several cases challenging the way lateral flow test contracts were awarded during the pandemic. Photograph: dmbaker/Getty Images/iStockphoto

A legal challenge to the government’s award of multimillion-pound contracts for lateral flow tests that later failed to gain regulatory approval has been rejected by the high court.

The health and social care secretary’s decision to grant three contracts to UK firm Abingdon Health was the subject of litigation by campaigning organisation Good Law Project (GLP), which has brought several cases challenging the way contracts were awarded during the pandemic.

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