Francis Hoar on The Alan Miller Show - 18 March 2023

GUEST OVERVIEW: Francis Hoar is a top rated public lawyer (Legal 500) and election lawyer (Chambers and Partners), who also acts in employment, commercial and property law. Francis regularly appears in election petitions and in related proceedings, including political reputation management, and has a considerable advisory practice. Francis acted for the claimant in the judicial review challenging the lawfulness of the original (March 2020) ‘lockdown’ regulations imposed as a result of the coronavirus epidemic, the landmark case of R (Dolan) v Secretary of State that was decided in the Court of Appeal in December 2020 – a case largely based on Francis’s legal opinion published (before the claim was brought) in April 2020. He has since acted in judicial reviews of regulations imposing travel regulations and mandatory vaccination of carehome and (now) NHS workers and of the lawfulness of child vaccination policies; and in a successful High Court appeal against the GMC’s restriction of the freedom of expression of a GP.