gc, yes the case does set a precedent in UK law - on the doctrine of frustration of contracts, which makes it interesting to us lawyers, but probably not to many other people. It's low-level precedent at the moment, since it's a decision of the High Court, not the Court of Appeal or Supreme Court.

I suspect the EMA got a shock at the outcome, since the decision was made by a UK Court and not by the European Court of Justice...

The EMA is listed with 3 digit prefix 941.

tomo, London Congestion is a service?

UK diplomatic plates come in two flavours: Ambassadorial ones that reflect the country name, with a low number, and "others", where the format is 3 digits letter D 3 digits. Various other international organisations also get plates in this format. More at Wikipedia.

tomo, abuse of special Number Plates. I think the EEC/EU had similar arrangements for those who were living and working full time in the UK, but NOT permanently?

"Back in the 80s, Forces personnel serving in BAOR had BFG number plates on their private vehicles until the IRA started targetting so-called 'soft targets'. "

Lord Deben could be lobbying for his own company's staff to conduct an inside review of HM Prison energy efficiency.

https://order-order.com/2019/02/21/disgraced-debens-dodgy-drax-dealings/

TinyCO2, I have referred to Brandt before ....

The French and German coalition, known as the EU, has encouraged a new axis of power. Brandt saw it as Northern v Southern Hemisphere. The wonderful idea of the North bankrupting itself to give money to the South is why idiots believe in Climate Science

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandt_Report
Thesis
"The Brandt Report suggests primarily that a great chasm in standard of living exists along the North-South divide and there should therefore be a ★large transfer of resources from developed to developing countries★. The countries North of the divide are extremely wealthy due to their successful trade in manufactured goods, whereas the countries South of the divide suffer poverty due to their trade in intermediate goods, where the export incomes are low.

The Brandt Commission envisaged a new kind of global security. It built its arguments on a pluralist perspective that combines several social, economic and political perils together with classical military perils."

https://www.sharing.org/information-centre/reports/brandt-report-summary
"Arguably the most comprehensive and solutions-oriented analysis of critical global economic issues to date was a report by the Independent Commission on International Development Issues, chaired by Willy Brandt (former Chancellor of West Germany) in 1980 - widely referred to as the 'Brandt Report'.

I would argue that the EU has combined with Climate Science to cost more than another World War, in terms of lives and money wasted. But Germany is doing very nicely and doesn't even show any gratitude.

Germany and France don't give a flying fig leaf for Southern Europe, let alone the Southern Hemisphere