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In this issue: Autumn Budget 2024 Brexit highlights Brexit SIs Subsidy control and State aid Judicial review Equality and human rights Constitutional and administrative law Information law Other Public law news LexTalk®Public Law: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers New Q&As Useful information Autumn Budget 2024 Bar Council responds to Autumn Budget 2024 The Bar Council has issued its reaction to the Autumn Budget, praising the ‘overall settlement for justice’. The settlement sets a departmental expenditure limit of £13.8bn for 2025–2026 for the Ministry of Justice. The Bar Council’s Chair, Sam Townend, welcomed the uplift, describing it as an overdue move towards treating justice as a core public service. He nevertheless cautioned that the sector remains far from recovery, pointing to a 20% real-terms per person cut in justice funding since 2010. To move beyond crisis...

In this issue: Prohibited conduct (discrimination etc) ESG and sustainability: employment issues Status and worker categories Employment contract Pay Whistleblowing Employment Tribunals/Employment Appeal Tribunal Civil courts Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland Materials LexTalk®Employment: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers New Q&As Prohibited conduct (discrimination etc) Complaint by LGBT charity about ‘gender critical’ tweets did not induce or cause chambers’ discrimination of barrister In Bailey v Stonewall Equality Ltd [2024] EAT 119, the Employment Appeal Tribunal confirmed an employment tribunal had not erred in dismissing a barrister’s complaint, based on her gender critical beliefs, that Stonewall, an LGBT campaigning charity, had caused or encouraged her chambers to discriminate against her, contrary to section 111 of the Equality Act 2010. The tribunal considered the charity’s approach to be a protest, lacking any specific objective beyond, perhaps, publicly distancing the chambers from the barrister’s...

In this issue: Brexit headlines Judicial review Equality and human rights Constitutional and administrative law 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 Weekly digest of EU–UK TCA Specialised Committees’ publications-27 May 2026 This digest outlines the outputs published by the Specialised Committees created under the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) for the week 20–26 May 2026. See: LNB News 27/05/2026 8. Judicial review Residents opposing construction of the new Chinese embassy refused costs protection under CPR 46.24(2)(a) and the Aarhus Convention-R (Royal Mint Court Residents’ Association) v Secretary of State, MHCLG The High Court ruled that a challenge to national security mitigation tied to the proposed Chinese embassy did not attract Aarhus costs protection under CPR 46.24(2)(a). Relying on HM Treasury v Global Feedback Ltd...

This glossary sets out numerous expressions regularly encountered in the restructuring & insolvency sphere. Words shown in bold within definitions are themselves explained in other entries in this glossary as well. A Article X The MLIJ contains a single provision named Article X, aimed at jurisdictions that have already implemented the MLCBI, like England, or are weighing its adoption. Article X states: ‘Not withstanding any prior interpretation to the contrary, the relief available under [insert a cross-reference to the legislation of this State enacting Article 21 of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency] includes recognition and enforcement of a judgment’ (see Practice Note: UNCITRAL model law on recognition and enforcement of insolvency-related judgments (MLIJ): Article X). Asset-backed security (ABS) A form of security anchored by asset pools, for example loans, leases, and credit card receivables. Assimilated law From 1 January 2024, ‘retained law’ has been retitled ‘assimilated law’. The body of domestic law originally arising from EU obligations, created by the European...