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In this issue Construction industry news Fire safety Standard form construction contracts Planning for construction lawyers Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content New Q&As Construction industry news In this article, we reflect on the principal shifts in construction law that surfaced during the closing months of 2024, and consider what might unfold in 2025. See News Analysis: Construction law—key developments in 2024, and what to expect in 2025. Fire safety The MHCLG has issued revised editions of Approved Document B (fire safety) for both volume 1 (dwellings) and volume 2 (buildings other than dwellings). These updates consolidate the 2019 editions together with the 2020 and 2022 amendments, and also include upcoming changes planned for 2025, 2026 and 2029...

In this issue: Brexit headlines Constitutional and administrative law Equality and human rights Judicial review Public procurement Subsidy control and State aid Information law Other Public Law news Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Brexit headlines Court of Appeal restricts education-based residence right under UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement—R (Ayoola) v Home Secretary In R (Ayoola) v SSHD [2025] EWCA Civ 1519, the Court of Appeal held that Articles 24(2) and 25(2) of the Withdrawal Agreement do not confer fresh residence entitlements; they merely safeguard education‑linked derivative residence rights that existed before withdrawal from the EU. Specifically, children of EU nationals had residence rights under Article 12 of Regulation 1612/68 (later Article 10 of Regulation 492/2011). Their third‑country national parents held residence rights only where their presence was required for the child. CJEU case law acknowledged and reinforced those derivative entitlements. Nonetheless,...

In this issue: Public procurement Children's social care Social care Planning Healthcare Education Governance Local government finance Social housing Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Latest Q&A Public procurement Procurement Act 2023 coming into force postponed until February 2025 Parliament has published a written ministerial statement from Georgia Gould, Parliamentary Secretary in the Cabinet Office, proposing a brief deferral to the start date of the Procurement Act 2023 (PA 2023), previously expected to begin in October 2024. She confirmed the government will lay regulations to move commencement to 24 February 2025. She observed the former administration’s National Procurement Policy Statement (NPPS) fell short of realising the full potential of public procurement, and a fresh NPPS is being drafted to articulate the new Labour government’s priorities. The extra time is intended to support a more seamless transition into the new framework. Ministers in the Welsh Government and the Northern...

This Practice Note outlines the practical actions to be weighed by advisers dealing with the immediate consequences of a serious workplace health and safety accident in England, Wales and Scotland. In the moments after an incident, it is crucial that an incident management team is identified promptly and put in place from the outset and without delay. See Practice Notes: Health and Safety Executive prosecutions policy, Dealing with dawn raids by the Health and Safety Executive—key information, Health and safety investigations in Scotland and Corporate manslaughter—enforcement and prosecution. Which regulators will be involved? England and Wales In England and Wales, coordination of investigation and prosecution activity following a work-related death is governed by Work Related Deaths: A Protocol for Liaison (WRDP—England and Wales). The protocol is signed by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) British Transport Police (BTP) Care Quality Commission (CQC) Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) Chief Fire Officers’ Association (CFOA) Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) the Health and...

ARCHIVED: This case tracker is archived and not maintained. It lists key pensions judgments from 2021, arranged by topic. Entries are grouped by subject, with topics shown in the Table of Contents to the left of the page. Discrimination MH and ILA (Droits à pension en cas de faillite) Full name: BJ and OV, joint trustees in bankruptcy of Mr M v Mrs M, MH, ILA, Mr M Citation: C-168/20 Court: Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Judgment Date: 11 November 2021 Representation: D.J. Rhee QC, C. Harrison (Barrister), and I. Gill (Solicitor) for BJ and OV, joint trustees in bankruptcy of Mr M; G. Peretz QC, J. Briggs (Barrister), and S. Gilchrist (Solicitor) for Mrs M, MH, ILA and Mr M; L. Armati, L. Malferrari and M. Wilderspin, Agents for the European Commission Key take-away: On a preliminary reference from the High Court, the Court of Justice ruled that section 11 of the Welfare Reform and...

ARCHIVED : This case tracker has been archived and is no longer maintained. It provides a list of significant pensions judgments handed down in 2020, arranged by topic. The individual items in this tracker are grouped by subject. Those subjects are listed in the Table of Contents (on the left of the page). This Practice Note contains references to case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union. In broad terms, EU judgments issued on or before 31 December 2020 remain binding on UK courts and tribunals (even if the EU courts subsequently take a different approach) until the UK courts choose to exercise their powers to depart. For the most part, EU case law created after that date is not binding in the UK, though UK courts and tribunals may still ‘have regard to’ EU judgments where relevant. For more detailed information on the treatment of EU case law, see Practice Note: Retained EU law and assimilated law...