In a significant legal battle, the Cabinet Office has lost its bid to withhold Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages and notebooks from the COVID-19 Inquiry. The High Court ruled in favour of the inquiry’s chair, Baroness Heather Hallett, who had issued a section 21 notice demanding the documents.
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The court’s ruling stated that the fact that the section 21 notice may yield some irrelevant documents does not invalidate its lawfulness or the Cabinet Office’s obligation to comply with it.
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