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In this issue: Practice and procedure Public children Financial provision International children Daily and weekly news alerts New content Updated content New Q&As Useful information Practice and procedure Online Procedure Rule Committee meeting minutes Minutes from the Online Procedure Rule Committee’s meeting held on 12 May 2025 are now available. Lord Reed and Lord Hodge give evidence to the Lords Constitution Committee On 4 June 2025, the Supreme Court’s President and Deputy President, Lord Reed and Lord Hodge, appeared for their annual evidence session before the Lords Constitution Committee. The discussion covered the court’s judicial work, its responsibility for upholding the rule of law, and its outreach and international activity. They addressed challenges including misinformation, access to justice, and the effects of AI on the legal system. Responding to allegations of ‘judicial activism’ in both the European Court of Human Rights and the Supreme Court, they underlined that legal development is careful...

In this issue: Brexit headlines Brexit SIs Constitutional and administrative law Equality and human rights Judicial review State security and intelligence 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 DBT reports on assimilated law reform progress The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has issued the latest Assimilated Law Parliamentary Report, spanning June to December 2025. It presents a refresh on the retained EU Law (REUL) and assimilated law dashboard, the tool monitoring the quantity and status of assimilated law (previously termed REUL) across government departments. DBT has refreshed the REUL dashboard as well. As at 23 December 2025, it lists 6,925 assimilated law instruments covering roughly 400 policy areas. Compared with the last reporting window, 61 instruments have been repealed or revised, taking the...

This Practice Note outlines the principal contrasts in how employment tribunals operate in Scotland compared with those in England and Wales. Now that oversight of Scottish employment tribunals has been devolved to Scotland, it is uncertain whether these distinctions will be consolidated and broadened in future... Statutory framework and constitution Although Scottish tribunals may proceed differently from those in England and Wales, the underlying statutory regime is identical. The structure and procedures of Scottish tribunals are set out in a single code: the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024 (ET Rules 2024), SI 2024/1155. Before 2004, Scotland followed its own procedural rules. Given that this statutory scheme governs Scottish employment tribunals, the primary point of reference should be the ET Rules 2024, SI 2024/1155. Nevertheless, employment tribunals in Scotland have their own President, appointed by the Lord President of the (Scottish) Court of Session, who is Scotland’s most senior judge and head of the judiciary. The Scottish employment tribunal also has a Vice President (rather than English Regional Judges),...