DECC loses solar subsidy appeal: ruling in full

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Read the Court of Appeal's ruling rejecting government plans to impose retrospective cuts to solar feed-in tariffs

Three Court of Appeal judges this morning upheld a High Court ruling which branded its plans to rush through cuts to solar subsidies as illegal. A copy of the full ruling can be read here.

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