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This checklist is intended for landowners, including farmers and local authorities, who are considering a solar farm project. Levels of irradiance Is the site located in a part of the UK with strong irradiation? The South West, the South, South Wales and East Anglia are most favourable. The Midlands and the North can also host solar farms, though with reduced irradiance. North Scotland is the least suitable. Grid connection Is there an electricity substation close enough to enable grid connection? Engage the distribution network operator at the earliest opportunity to obtain a quote. Suitable land What is the overall site area? As a rule of thumb, at least ten hectares is required. Could nearby environmental, geographic or geological conditions influence the solar array? If possible, obtain aerial photographs. Is the site inside or next to a designated landscape, such as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty or a National Park? Is the land level? Is the ground rocky?......

In this issue: Enforcing security and property insolvency Service charges Disputes and remedies Repairing obligations and dilapidations Residential tenancies Rent and rates Contractual issues Additional Property Disputes updates LexTalk®Property Disputes: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Latest Q&As Enforcing security and property insolvency Applications for possession and sale of the family home in bankruptcy (Armstrong v Temblett) The matter involved an application by Mr Armstrong, acting as trustee in bankruptcy (the trustee), seeking an order for possession and sale of Mrs Vanessa Temblett’s London property, jointly owned with her husband (the London property). The court determined that, under section 335A of the Insolvency Act 1986 (IA 1986), the trustee was entitled to possession and sale, as no exceptional circumstances were identified to rebut the statutory presumption that creditors’ interests prevail over other factors. The judgment highlights the need for practitioners...

In this issue: Public rights of access Planning applications and decisions Nationally significant infrastructure projects Housing Daily and weekly news alerts Latest Q&A Related Documents Public rights of access Supreme Court holds that Dartmoor Commons Act right of access extends to wild camping (Darwall v Dartmoor National Park Authority) In Darwall v Dartmoor National Park Authority [2025] UKSC 20, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected Mr and Mrs Darwall’s appeal, confirming that section 10(1) of the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 (DCA 1985) confers a public right of access that includes wild camping as open‑air recreation. Hannah Brown, senior solicitor, and Matthew McFeeley, Partner, at Richard Buxton Solicitors, with Rosie Brain, solicitor at Clarke Willmott, assess the ruling’s implications. McFeeley highlights that, aside from the core question of statutory interpretation, the decision is notable for clarifying when, under Pepper v Hart, extrinsic materials may illuminate Parliament’s intention, and for evaluating the wider legal context created by earlier statutes...

In this issue: Education Social care Public procurement Planning Governance Children's social care Pensions Social housing Healthcare Licensing Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Education Supreme Court holds that statutory religious education and collective worship in Northern Ireland school breached human rights (JR87 and another for Judicial Review (Appellant)) In In the matter of an application by JR87 and another for Judicial Review (Appellant), the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the appeal advanced by a schoolgirl, JR87, together with her father, against the Department of Education (Northern Ireland). The court determined that delivering religious education and conducting collective worship in Northern Ireland’s controlled schools, as required by the current statutory scheme, violated their rights under Article 2 of Protocol 1 (A2P1) to the European Convention on Human Rights, when read in conjunction with Article 9 ECHR. Victoria Dennis, Educational Law Solicitor at Doyle Clayton, has offered observations on the...

Under section 23 of the Local Government Act 1974 (LGA 1974), the office of the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) is established to look into complaints about maladministration and/or service failings involving the following bodies: any local authority, covering its members, officers, and any committee or subcommittee (but not town or parish councils) combined authorities, or a joint board where all constituent bodies are local authorities a development corporation constituted for the purposes of a news town, or an urban development corporation fire and rescue commissioners school admission appeal panels police and crime commissioners a national park authority See Practice Note: Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman. What is Maladministration? Section 26 of the LGA 1974 sets out what the LGO may investigate, but Maladministration itself is not defined in the statute...

ARCHIVED: This archived Practice Note sets out key dispute resolution (DR) appeals or notable appellate court rulings in the sphere of general civil litigation in England and Wales from 2023 to the present, and highlights significant pending appeal matters (to support horizon scanning) alongside reported decisions handed down by the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Competition Appeal Tribunal, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (the Privy Council), Court of Justice of the European Union (Court of Justice) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Links are provided to each judgment and any bespoke News Analysis to aid comprehension of the principles addressed in the decisions and the impact of those rulings. This Practice Note comprises two elements designed to help dispute resolution practitioners stay current with developments in case law that affect their practice area, or that bear upon civil litigation procedure more generally: selected forthcoming appeals to the Supreme Court are listed below; see Dispute resolution: key appeal cases—2023—Key forthcoming appeals to the Supreme...

ARCHIVED : This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. This Practice Note compiles principal appellate cases (ie rulings of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court and, where applicable, selected judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU)) that we have covered, to make it simpler for users to locate those decisions. You can navigate the material via the collapsible table of contents on the left-hand margin and/or by using the hyperlinks listed below. The cases are arranged under these headings: Key DR Developments Brexit Applicable law Rome I Jurisdiction Jurisdiction and choice of court agreements Stays and disputing the court’s jurisdiction Brussels I (EC regulation) Brussels I (recast) (EU regulation) Service Service in the jurisdiction Service...