Overview

• Mrs Justice Cockerill found the 25 million gowns were not contractually sterile and lacked a validated process, with evidence including 103 failures in 140 sterility tests and invalid CE marking.
• The court ruled the Department of Health and Social Care is entitled to the contract price as damages but rejected its claim for storage costs.
• PPE Medpro’s counterclaim that the DHSC owed it a duty to advise on compliance was dismissed as contrary to established legal principles.
• PPE Medpro filed a notice to appoint an administrator ahead of the judgment, and the company’s principals, Baroness Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman, deny wrongdoing and criticised the decision.
• The contracts were awarded via the government’s VIP lane after a referral by Baroness Mone, and a separate National Crime Agency investigation remains ongoing.