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No business operates free from the actions of government departments, agencies, and regulators. When their decisions impact your business, you need a partner who can help you meet uncertainty with agency, holding regulators to account and shaping the regulatory environment to align with your commercial goals.

New legislation, a policy decision, a regulatory outcome. When the issue is business critical, you want a team that understands how to achieve the result you need, leveraging regulation to your advantage and simplifying legally complex challenges in technically difficult areas. A team that understands your objectives as well as the pressures faced by public bodies. A team that understands litigation is never an end in itself and delivers a comprehensive strategy designed for long-term success. A team that ensures regulation works for, not against you.

If you are a public body, you want that same team fighting your corner, helping you to make legally robust decisions that are attuned to political and policy challenges.

Our administrative and public law team has extensive experience representing clients in high-profile and complex cases before domestic and international courts and tribunals. We understand the legal, commercial, and political sensitivities these matters involve.

The breadth and depth of regulatory knowledge of our global practice is peerless. We combine our administrative and public law experience with government relations and policy advocacy to provide clients with integrated, strategic support. By breaking down regulatory silos and connecting legal, commercial, and policy insight, we help clients anticipate risks, seize opportunities, and achieve outcomes that deliver competitive advantage.

Judicial Review

Legislation

UK Parliamentary Affairs

Challenge unlawful government decisions and protect your rights with our market-leading judicial review team.

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Turn your legislative challenges into opportunities with our market-leading legal and policy team who will help you help you craft, influence and interpret legislation.

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Achieve legislative and public policy change without blended legal and policy market-leading team.

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Our capabilities at a glance

Judicial review wins

Ex-government policy advisors

Pieces of legislation changed

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The whole team is super smart. They are all really easy to work with and then know our business inside out. They come to us proactively with issues and are incredibly responsive.

Chambers & Partners, UK Guide, 2025

An intellectually brilliant and commercially astute public law team. One of the very best in the city.

Chambers & Partners UK 2025

Hogan Lovells has a high capability in solving complex issues that involve both legal and technical perspectives.

Chambers & Partners, Germany, 2025

The lawyers are just experts. They are there when you need them and happy to entertain all my questions. They understand the wider context and the politics and sensitivities of it.

Chambers & Partners, UK 2025

Key contacts

Charles Brasted

Partner

Charles Brasted

Partner

London, Boston

Julia Marlow

Partner

Julia Marlow

Partner

London

Robert Gardener

Director of Government Affairs

Robert Gardener

Director of Government Affairs

London

Nicola (Nikki) Da Costa

Director of Legislative Affairs

Nicola (Nikki) Da Costa

Director of Legislative Affairs

London

Meet the Administrative and Public Law team

Representative experience

Advising DESNZ on a range of public law issues arising from the administration of Bulb. including, in defending judicial review challenges that claimed the Secretary of State’s decision to approve the transfer of Bulb’s customers to Octopus was unlawful.

Advising The London Metal Exchange on successfully resisting judicial review claims from Global Legal Action Network and the London Mining Network alleging that metal that had been produced contrary to environmental law was being traded by third parties on the LME's Exchange.

Advising Sky’s on its appeal to the Court of Appeal against the CAT’s decision that Sky’s pay TV service constitutes an electronic communications service.

Advising a number of the world’s largest technology companies on their engagement with Government in relation to the development and implementation of the Online Safety Act and subsequent compliance.

Advising Uber in three successful licence appeals, securing its ability to continue operating in London, which were brought under statutory appeal mechanisms and on an ongoing basis on its regulatory strategy to support the growth of its innovative service in regulated markets.

Advising Albanwise Wallace Estates in a multi-party judicial review seeking a declaration of incompatibility in respect of A1P1 claims on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024.

Advising the UK Government on the implementation of constitutionally momentous Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act, which redefined the legal landscape in the UK, post-Brexit.

Advising a leading technology and media company on the impact of proposed AI legislation and regulation in the EU, UK, US and other jurisdictions.

Advising NATS in relation to an investigation into its operations by the CAA following a complaint by Ryanair that NATS was failing to comply with its Licence obligations in relation to the provision of air traffic services to Stansted Airport.

Awards and recognitions

Band 1 for Administrative & Public Law

Legal 500 UK

2025

Band 1 for Administrative & Public Law

Chambers & Partners UK

2025

The only firm top-ranked for Administrative & Public Law and Parliamentary & Public Affairs

Chambers & Partners UK

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New technical standard for Natural Gas Pipelines: NOM-020-ASEA-2024 officially published

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Insights and Analysis

Expansion of Hong Kong’s anti-bribery legislation – The Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (Amendment of Schedules 1 and 2) Order 2025 brings four new institutions within scope of the POBO.

02 July 2025

News

U.S. House of Representatives passes proposal to prohibit enforcement of state AI laws for 10 years

22 May 2025

News

Reforms to the Mexican competition law

28 April 2025

Explore our capabilities

Judicial Review

Legislation

UK Parliamentary Affairs

Our capabilities at a glance

Judicial review wins

Ex-government policy advisors

Pieces of legislation changed

Hear from our clients and industry leaders

The whole team is super smart. They are all really easy to work with and then know our business inside out. They come to us proactively with issues and are incredibly responsive.

An intellectually brilliant and commercially astute public law team. One of the very best in the city.

Hogan Lovells has a high capability in solving complex issues that involve both legal and technical perspectives.

The lawyers are just experts. They are there when you need them and happy to entertain all my questions. They understand the wider context and the politics and sensitivities of it.

Key contacts

Representative experience

Awards and recognitions

Band 1 for Administrative & Public Law

Band 1 for Administrative & Public Law

The only firm top-ranked for Administrative & Public Law and Parliamentary & Public Affairs

Other ways we can help you

Public Procurement

Government Contracts

Government Relations and Public Affairs

Antitrust and Competition

Navigate change with our latest insights

Freedom of Information requests – is disclosure really in the public interest?

A win for online speech in Patterson v. Meta

Reforms to the Mexican competition law – Cofece and IFT extinction

Expansion of Hong Kong’s anti-bribery legislation – The Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (Amendment of Schedules 1 and 2) Order 2025 brings four new institutions within scope of the POBO.

U.S. House of Representatives passes proposal to prohibit enforcement of state AI laws for 10 years

Reforms to the Mexican competition law

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