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In this issue: EU fundamentals Commercial Competition and state aid Financial services Environment Insurance and reinsurance IP Life sciences TMT International trade Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers EU fundamentals The priorities of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU (July–December 2024) EU law analysis: The programme for the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU has been released, outlining its agenda and strategic focus for 1 July to 31 December 2024. This analysis summarises the principal priorities for the Hungarian Presidency across Practice Areas. See News Analysis: The priorities of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU (July–December 2024)... Commercial Directive on common rules that promote the repair of goods published in Official Journal Directive (EU) 2024/1799 of the European Parliament and of the Council, dated 13 June 2024, on common rules encouraging the repair of goods—amending...

In this issue: Children’s social care Judicial Review Social housing Education Social care Healthcare Planning Highways Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Children’s social care Local authorities and the assumption of responsibility to protect children (HXA v Surrey County Council and another party) This appeal, brought by the defendant councils Surrey County Council and Wolverhampton County Council, examined when local authorities are taken to have assumed responsibility to safeguard children. The applicants, HXA and YXA, were minors when they suffered sexual or physical abuse by a parent or a parent’s partner. They contended that the councils owed them a common law duty of care, as children, to protect them from such harm. At first instance, and on appeal to a High Court judge, the councils succeeded in having the claim struck out under the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (CPR) 3.4(2)(a) on the basis that no arguable cause of action was...

In this issue: COP30 Key developments Air emissions and climate change Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental assessment Environmental information Environmental permits and consents ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Marine Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Water, flooding and drainage LexTalk®Environment: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content COP30 COP30’s Global ‘Collective Effort’—Fragments of progress By the Saturday morning when COP30 in Brazil should have concluded, negotiators secured an accord: ‘Global Mutirão: Uniting humanity in a global mobilisation against climate change’. Drawn from the Tupi-Guarani language, ‘Global Mutirão’ echoed a summit presented as one of action and delivery. The resulting text deliberately preserved the multilateral process and offered glimmers of progress, yet avoided any explicit mention of fossil fuels or of forests—despite the meeting taking place in the Amazon. This piece highlights the principal outcomes from COP30. Written by Estelle Dehon...

Practice Note This Practice Note consists of two strands created to help dispute resolution practitioners remain up to date with developments in case law that affect their field, or which influence civil litigation procedure more generally: selected forthcoming appeals to the Supreme Court are highlighted below; see Key forthcoming appeals to the Supreme Court—2022 summaries of significant appeal decisions in England and Wales (ie rulings of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court and, where appropriate, certain judgments of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Court of Justice of the European Union), and ECtHR, which we have covered; see: Key forthcoming appeal cases—2022 You can navigate this content using the table of contents in the left-hand margin. Alternatively, search this tracker using [CTRL]+[F]. This material is not intended to be a comprehensive register of every appeal or major decision relevant to dispute resolution practitioners. Key forthcoming appeals to the Supreme Court—2022 Tort and negligence ...

This review examines the principal amendments to the Immigration Rules (the Rules) contained in HC 617. Released on 10 September 2021 with an Explanatory Memorandum, it is lengthy. Readers can jump to particular sections of this note rapidly via the Table of Contents bar on the left of the screen for quick navigation. Beyond unveiling the International Sportsperson route and renaming the remaining temporary work routes, the Statement of Changes makes numerous small adjustments across assorted areas of detail. These involve minor fixes to policy points and alterations to terminology/wording that have emerged in relation to routes streamlined for the post‑Brexit Immigration framework in HC 813 as implemented. Frequently, revisions are delivered through wholesale paragraph replacement, which gives them a more weighty appearance than they truly warrant (and also increases the time a user must spend to pinpoint what has in fact been altered in practice). This is especially true for the Appendix EU and Appendix EU (Family Permit) revisions within this document. The Law Commission’s very precise proposal that...

Employment laws in the Republic of Ireland, Great Britain and Northern Ireland have much in common, as all operate within common law systems and many contemporary employment statutes flow from European Directives. Even so, divergences do exist and are likely to widen. This Practice Note outlines several distinctions between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland. Care is advised when handling matters in Northern Ireland, where the framework is becoming increasingly distinct from Great Britain. For details on the differences between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, see Practice Note: Northern Ireland employment law. Main areas of difference employment status categories leave entitlements qualifying period and remedies under unfair dismissals legislation redundancy entitlements protected conversations and settlement agreements employment tribunal procedures transfers of undertakings (TUPE) immigration Categories of employment status In the Republic of Ireland, individuals engaged in work are typically classified as either ‘employees’ or ‘independent contractors’. There is no...