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In this issue Key DR developments Claims and remedies Costs and funding Cross-border disputes Injunctions Pre-action and limitation Litigation Dates for your diary Useful information Daily and weekly news alerts Key DR developments Court and the legal profession The 11th Edition of the King’s Bench Guide: Key changes from the 10th Edition (April 2024) feature, among other updates, refreshed guidance on telephone hearings (Chapter 9); a reoriented emphasis reflecting the court’s enhanced alternative dispute resolution powers (Chapter 10); updated costs management, with the Senior Master’s Guidance Note now placed at Annex 8 (Chapter 10); amendments mirroring recent Part 25 reforms and the removal of CPR PD 25A and CPR PD 25B (Chapter 12); plus a new section on securing evidence from other jurisdictions (Chapter 20). For more detail, see LNB News 29/04/2025 29—the 11th Edition of the King’s Bench Guide has been released. UKSC and JCPC publish final year of 2023–2026 business plan:...

In this issue: Key developments and horizon scanning Repairing obligations and dilapidations Rent and rates Enforcing security and property insolvency Trespass and adverse possession Disputes and remedies Service charges Easements and covenants LexTalk®Property Disputes: a Lexis®Nexis community Additional Property disputes updates Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Key developments and horizon scanning King’s Speech 2024—property measures The 2024 King’s Speech set out property measures anticipated from Labour’s election campaign, including ending ‘no-fault’ evictions in the private rented sector and progressing Law Commission proposals on enfranchisement, commonhold and the right to manage. The supporting background briefing, adding further detail, confirms reforms will include regulating ground rents—trailed during Labour’s campaign but excluded from the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (LFRA 2024)—and also points to abolishing residential forfeiture. That issue has been contemplated for a considerable time: the Law Commission’s 2006 report, ‘Termination of Tenancies for Tenant Default’...

In this issue: Brexit highlights Brexit SIs Post-Brexit transition guidance Constitutional and administrative law Equality and human rights Judicial review Information law Public procurement Subsidy control and State aid Other Public Law news Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Brexit highlights Cabinet Office publishes evaluation of Common Frameworks The Cabinet Office has released a review of the Common Frameworks, assessing how the UK Government and the devolved administrations collaborate after Brexit. Drawing on proforma data across 28 frameworks and six case studies, the review concluded that, although the frameworks support effective intergovernmental collaboration, there is scope to enhance cross-framework alignment, stakeholder participation and central guidance. It also observed that many processes within the frameworks remain untried, with limited examples of formal dispute resolution or managing divergence, and recommends continued evaluation as the frameworks mature. See: LNB News 18/07/2025...

This Practice Note This Practice Note sets out how the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) conducts its formal administrative procedures under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA 2000), with particular emphasis on Part XXVI (Notices), alongside the PRA’s statements of policy and procedure for reaching decisions... Outcomes may involve supervisory steps—such as varying or imposing requirements—or formal enforcement, including a public censure or a financial penalty, directed at PRA‑authorised firms or individuals... It explains the PRA’s decision‑making routes for issuing statutory notices under FSMA 2000, namely: Supervisory Notices Warning Notices Decision Notices Final Notices Notices of Discontinuance The Note also sets out how subjects can make representations, including orally, at a hearing before PRA decision‑making bodies such as the Supervision, Risk and Policy Committee (SRPC) or the Enforcement Decision Making Committee (EDMC)... The Securitisation Regulation 2024 (SI 2024/102) broadened the PRA’s enforcement remit to cover firms engaged in securitisation that are not PRA‑authorised. Under the...

ARCHIVED: This archived Practice Note is no longer updated and is supplied solely for background reference and context. Additionally, certain links may not lead you to the provisions as they stood when the guidance in this Practice Note was issued and published. For details of earlier and/or later changes to the CPR, refer to: CPR Updates—overview and Procedure Rule Committee minutes—overview. This Practice Note describes the amendments to Practice Directions in the 101st Making Document, dated 7 November 2018. Those amendments introduce a video hearing pilot under CPR PD 51V, applying to applications to set aside default judgments entered under CPR 12 by the County Court for a specified sum of money...

ARCHIVED : Practice Direction 51V (CPR PD 51V) establishes a pilot under which applications to set aside default judgments made pursuant to CPR 12 are heard by video. This mechanism is distinct from the coronavirus pandemic arrangements that facilitated remote hearings. For further guidance, see Practice Note: Remote and hybrid hearings in civil proceedings. The pilot operates in the Birmingham or Manchester Civil Justice Centres and applies automatically unless a party objects or chooses to opt out. The scheme is described in the schedule to the 115th Update—Practice Direction amendments. It has been extended, with the 122nd Update—Practice Direction Amendments confirming it will continue until 31 March 2021. This Practice Notice addresses the second video hearings pilot scheme. Note that both the original pilot and this successor bear the same title and share the same practice direction reference. For the rationale behind introducing a second pilot, see News Analysis: Minutes of the CPR Committee meeting—6 December 2019. For guidance on the earlier scheme, consult Practice Note: Default...

ARCHIVED ARCHIVED: This Precedent has been archived and is no longer maintained. 1 Context These ‘Arrangements’ explain how you may submit a complaint that an elected or co‑opted member of this authority [ or of a parish council within its area ] has not complied with the authority’s Code of Conduct, and outline how the authority will manage allegations concerning a failure to comply with the authority’s Code of Conduct. Under section 28(6) and (7) of the Localism Act 2011, the Council must have in place ‘arrangements’ by which allegations that a member or co‑opted member of the authority [ or of a parish council within the authority’s area ], or of a Committee or Sub‑Committee of the authority, has failed to comply with that authority’s Code of Conduct can be investigated and decisions reached on such allegations...