DWF has lodged a claim against the Government over a tender process that saw the firm lose out to Shepherd and Wedderburn on a place on the Insolvency Service’s (IS) legal panel.

DWF has alleged that the IS, an executive agency for the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, committed “manifest errors” in its assessment of the firm’s tender and that it had not been treated equally with other firms pitching for spots.