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In this issue: Brexit headlines Brexit SIs Post-Brexit transition guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19) Constitutional and administrative law Judicial review Equality and human rights Information law Subsidy control and State aid Public procurement Management and strategic planning Other Public Law updates Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Brexit headlines Brexit Bulletin—FCDO releases the agenda for the 13th meeting of the Withdrawal Agreement Joint Committee. Scheduled for 16 May 2024, the session will run in person and via videoconference. Items slated include: a stocktake of Specialised Committee work from 29 September 2023 to 16 May 2024; an update on the Withdrawal Agreement under Article 164; citizens’ rights; the Windsor Framework; and measures to be adopted by the Joint Committee. See: LNB News 08/05/2024 55. Weekly summary of EU–UK TCA Specialised Committees’ publications—8 May 2024. This digest sets out details...

In this issue: Public Law case law quarterly—Q3 2025 Equality and Human rights Constitutional and administrative law Brexit SIs Post-Brexit transition guidance Judicial review Public procurement Public sector contracts State security and intelligence Information law Other Public law news LexTalk®Public Law: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Public Law case law quarterly—Q3 2025 The quarterly Public Law case law round-up presents and evaluates significant judgments brought together by the Lexis+® UK Public Law team each quarter. Marking 25 years since the Human Rights Act 1998 took effect, this edition begins with insight into recent human rights jurisprudence. See News Analysis: Public Law case law quarterly—Q3 2025. Equality and Human rights ECtHR rejects prisoner voting claim—Hora v UK In Hora v United Kingdom (Application no 1048/20), the European Court of Human Rights...

Brexit headlines Defra sets out scope of legislative alignment under UK-EU SPS Agreement The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has outlined the EU legislation it considers to sit within the scope of the proposed UK‑EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement. The statement confirms the government’s intention to seek legislative alignment with EU rules, including dynamic alignment, to lessen administrative burdens and reduce costs associated with agrifood trade. It indicates that, in most cases, alignment is anticipated to substitute for, rather than add to, current domestic requirements, despite the limited divergence since EU exit. Defra also signals that the referenced EU measures, together with related implementing and delegated acts, presently set the expected boundaries of the agreement’s scope, and that further updates and detailed guidance for businesses will be issued following the conclusion of negotiations...

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained Keeping abreast of case law that shapes a practitioner’s specialism, or influences civil litigation procedure generally, is a persistent challenge for those working in dispute resolution. This Practice Note distils the leading appeal authorities—decisions of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, and, where relevant, selected judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)—that we have reported, giving users straightforward access to those rulings. Use the table of contents in the left margin to browse, or locate items quickly with [CTRL]+[F]. It also sets out a selection of forthcoming appeals, where known, to aid horizon scanning. The material is not intended to be a comprehensive catalogue of every appeal and/or significant decision for dispute resolution practitioners. Key forthcoming appeal cases—2019 Terminating contracts—frustration Canary Wharf (BP4) T1 Ltd v European Medicines Agency [2019] EWHC 921 (Ch)—Court of Appeal: permission to appeal granted in the lower court...

Background The Market Abuse Directive 2003/6/EC (MAD) was enacted in 2003, creating a legal framework across the EU to safeguard market integrity against insider dealing and market manipulation. In the wake of the extensive harm caused by the financial crisis, however, an assessment of MAD’s effectiveness was undertaken, leading the European Commission (Commission) to propose its repeal and replacement. Consequently, on 12 June 2014, the Official Journal of the European Union published the texts of two new legislative instruments: Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (EU Market Abuse Regulation), Directive 2014/57/EU on criminal sanctions for market abuse (CSMAD) Together, the EU Market Abuse Regulation and CSMAD displaced MAD and ushered in a new EU‑wide market abuse regime that spans a broader range of markets, products and behaviour than before. The EU Market Abuse Regulation and CSMAD took effect on 3 July 2016. During the 2009 Lisbon Treaty negotiations, the UK and Ireland secured the Protocol on the Position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in...

This Practice Note reviews Regulation (EC) 1896/2006—the European Order for Payment Regulation (EOP Regulation)—as updated by Regulation (EU) 2015/2421. It outlines European Orders for Payment (EOPs), also known as European Payment Orders (EPOs). These serve cross-border matters to secure payment of a defined, uncontested monetary claim without issuing court proceedings. Article 2 of the EOP Regulation lists claims that are excluded. A defendant may file a ‘statement in opposition’, request a review of the order in exceptional cases when out of time to do so, or ask the enforcing court to decline enforcement. This Practice Note also refers to the Report of 17 October 2016 reviewing the Regulation. Relevant regulations and report Regulation (EC) 1896/2006 creating a (EOP Regulation) Commission Regulation (EU) 936/2012 amending the Annexes to the EOP Regulation Council Regulation (EU) 517/2013 adapting certain regulations and decisions in the fields of free movement of goods, freedom of movement for persons, company law, competition policy, agriculture, food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy, transport...