THE Ministry of Justice (MoJ) could be taken to court over its “refusal” to provide outsourced workers at its offices with face masks, their union said today.

United Voices of the World (UVW) announced that it will apply for a judicial review of the government’s “failure” to make the provision of face masks in workplaces compulsory. 

The announcement follows weeks of intense public scrutiny of an alleged Covid-19 outbreak at the ministry’s central London offices which has seen the department widely criticised over the death of cleaner Emanuel Gomes.