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This Checklist offers guidance on preparing your client for mediation. Your client must be thoroughly ready for what could unfold during the session. Frequently, they will front the negotiations. Before attending, make sure you carefully cover the following points with them: Process and stages of the mediation Confirm your client grasps the typical phases of mediation and the ways it may develop at each step. Make clear the proactive part they will take, including being asked to reflect on the dispute. They should be clear about their drivers and the outcomes they seek from the process. In the end, they will, one hopes, contribute to shaping and agreeing any final settlement. Understand each stage and how the process may shift Recognise their active role and readiness to explore the dispute Clarify motivations and the outcomes they wish to achieve Be prepared to help shape and endorse any settlement Expect probing questions and an exacting, highly involved experience Remember a joint...

Background to NISTA’s formation Bringing the NIC and IPA together tackles the entrenched gap between high-level planning and on-the-ground delivery that has long hindered major infrastructure schemes. This move is backed by strong evidence: the Construction Leadership Council reviewed 20,000 schemes and found that thorough front-end planning cut costs markedly and sped up completion. The NIC’s 2024 report also singled out the split between strategy and execution as a key cause of rising UK infrastructure costs. By merging, government intends to streamline infrastructure development, trim red tape, and strengthen coordination across all facets of delivery. NISTA’s role and potential impact NISTA’s brief goes well beyond tidying up structures. It will act as the focal point for both strategy and delivery, from shaping the ten-year infrastructure plan to advising on private finance and delivery practice. In priority places like the Oxford–Cambridge Growth Corridor, NISTA will plan in the round, weighing infrastructure requirements alongside environmental effects and prospects for economic growth...

GGR Business Model and related policy On 27 August 2025, DESNZ released a suite of documents setting out its proposed GGR Business Model and associated policy. The package includes: GGR Business Model Summary Draft GGR Front End Agreement Draft GGR Standard Terms and Conditions, which together constitute the ‘GGR Contract’ Draft GGR Grant Offer Letter Draft GGR Grant Funding Agreement Terms and Conditions The GGR Grant Funding Agreement Terms and Conditions are intended to be incorporated as a schedule to the final version of the GGR Grant Offer Letter. The GGR Grant Offer Letter, along with its schedules (including the GGR Grant Funding Agreement Terms and Conditions), is referred to as the ‘Grant Funding Agreement’. The GGR Business Model aims to stimulate private capital in GGR technologies in the UK, with particular emphasis on engineered removals of greenhouse gases (for more on ‘engineered’ removals, see the section: ‘Background: What is Greenhouse Gas Removals (GGR)?’ below)...

In this issue: Copyright & associated rights Patents Designs Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q&A Useful information Copyright & associated rights AI copyright dispute proposal to be put forward in 2024, UK minister says MLex: Artificial intelligence (AI) developers and copyright owners should see the government’s plan to break the deadlock over using protected works to train AI by the end of the year, the UK’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Feryal Clark, said. She underlined that whether this arrives via legislation or by amending policy remains to be determined, yet she still anticipated a resolution in the very near future, by the end of this year. See: AI copyright dispute proposal to be put forward in 2024, UK minister says. AI faces the music In June 2024, a fresh front opened in the copyright battle over current...

This Practice Note explores the key legal and commercial considerations when bringing in a third party to create a new website. Websites range from straightforward plain‑text HTML pages to sophisticated internet applications, social networking services and business platforms. Modern users expect sites to be advanced, interactive, functional and responsive—requirements that designers and developers must embed in both planning and build phases. Agencies typically provide teams of developers and designers to manage projects end to end. However, it is also common for these specialists to work independently on a freelance basis—either outsourced by agencies or contracted directly by customers. Consequently, a customer may not deal with one agency but with several developers/designers separately at different stages of a development project. In all cases, it is vital to appreciate the role and purpose of each specialist discipline throughout the development process, including the nature of the work each undertakes. For template agreements, see Precedents: Website development agreement—short form Website development agreement—long form Website design ...

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Facilities management Facilities management contracting is, at its core, a commercial services contract arrangement, covering ‘Hard FM’ (relating to the upkeep and fabric of a building, for example mechanical and electrical systems), ‘Soft FM’ (relating to in-building support functions such as cleaning, security and helpdesk services) or ‘Total FM’ (which can combine a number of hard and soft facilities management services), as required within buildings. See subtopic: Facilities management for construction lawyers. Fédération Internationale des Ingénieurs-Conseils (FIDIC) The International Federation of Consulting Engineers. FIDIC issues a suite of standard-form contracts for deployment on international construction projects. In common usage, ‘FIDIC’ typically refers to that family of contracts rather than the institution itself. See subtopics: FIDIC contracts 2017 onwards and FIDIC contracts pre-2017 editions in practice by practitioners. Feed-in tariff The Feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme—also sometimes known as the...

Overview Rain that falls, along with other forms of water, is intercepted as it travels through the hydrological cycle and put to work to produce electricity for consumption. This can be realised in a number of distinct ways, for example by tapping a river’s inherent force as it drops from upland terrain down to sea level across distance and gradient, or by building a dam and reservoir; in both arrangements, purpose-built, appropriately installed turbines and generators serve as the means of converting energy into power. Because water is not a finite global commodity and is not consumed while energy is produced as it moves downstream, hydropower is classed as renewable energy. Owing to fluctuations in seasonal flows, water availability, and landscape and geography by specific location, however, hydropower can be difficult to rely on as dependable baseload supply for the grid, and more often augments other national renewable generation as a ‘top-up’, providing additional supply into the grid when those sources, due to intermittency, fall short of prevailing demand...

THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. If you are uncertain about the Offer or what steps to take, you should obtain immediately your own personal, independent financial advice from your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or another independent financial adviser duly authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended) if you are resident in the United Kingdom, or, if you do not, from a suitably and appropriately duly authorised independent financial adviser. If you have sold, sell or otherwise transferred all of your Shares (other than pursuant to the Offer), please promptly forward this document together with any accompanying materials (but not any personalised Form of Acceptance) to the purchaser or transferee, or to the stockbroker, bank or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was arranged, for onward delivery to the purchaser or transferee. Nevertheless, do not distribute, forward or transmit these documents in or into any jurisdiction where doing so would breach, contravene or otherwise infringe the relevant...

This document is important and requires your immediate attention Within this document is a proposal that, if carried out in its entirety, would lead to the delisting of [ Offeree ] Shares from [ insert name of relevant market, such as AIM or the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange ]. Should you be uncertain about the Offer or what steps to take, you are urged promptly to obtain your own immediate, independent financial advice from your stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or another independent financial adviser duly authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended) if you are resident in the United Kingdom or, if you are not, from an appropriately authorised independent financial adviser. If you have disposed of, or now dispose of, all of your [ Offeree ] Shares by sale or any other transfer, kindly forward this document together with any enclosures (but excluding any personalised enclosures) without delay at once forthwith to the buyer or transferee, or to the stockbroker,...

This document is important and requires your immediate attention. If you are uncertain about the contents of this document or the steps you should take, you are urged to obtain your own personal independent financial advice immediately from an adviser authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended) if you are resident in the United Kingdom or, if not, from another appropriately authorised independent financial adviser, such as: your stockbroker your bank manager your solicitor your accountant or other independent financial adviser If you sell, have sold, or otherwise transferred all of your Company Shares (other than pursuant to the Offer), please send this document as soon as possible to the purchaser or transferee, or to the stockbroker, bank, or other agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected, for delivery to the purchaser or transferee. However, this document must not be forwarded or transmitted into any jurisdiction where doing so would contravene the relevant...