The former Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt asked the independent reconfiguration panel (IRP) to look at how the recommendations were reached.
Juhie Bhatia reported from Morocco on a fellowship from the International Reporting Project (IRP), an independent journalism program based in Washington, D.
Judge Mackie dismissed the SOS application for a stay and instead said its challenge should be expedited and heard over two days before 15 February, weeks before the IRP reports to Mr Hunt.
But lawyers for the group asked Judge Mackie QC to delay their court application in the light of Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's decision last month to order a full review of the JCPCT recommendations by the Independent Review Panel (IRP).
The Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP) has been asked to look in detail at how the decisions were reached and report its findings by 28 February, but will not look at plans to move the ECMO unit, the largest in the UK, from Glenfield to Birmingham.