WASPI file papers with the Courts – March 2025

17th March 2025

WASPI filed its claim against the Department of Work and Pensions with the courts on Friday 17 March 2025. The Court has already acknowledged receipt of our claim.

We now have seven days to “serve” our claim on the Government’s lawyers. Once we have taken that step, the Government and any “interested parties”, including the Ombudsman, will have three weeks to file their summary legal arguments in response. A High Court Judge will then decide if our claim will have “permission” to go ahead to a full judicial review. Normally this happens without a hearing.

The other important decision we will ask the Judge to take at this preliminary stage is to grant us a cost capping order. We cannot know how much the Government is prepared to spend on its lawyers to defend its decision-making. However, it is likely to be near to, or possibly more than, the amount we are realistically able to raise through CrowdJustice.

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