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In this issue: Practice Compliance forecast Financial sanctions AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing Data protection Other Practice Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Practice Compliance forecast New Practice Compliance forecast as at 17 June 2025 Our latest Practice Compliance forecast (as at 17 June 2025) is now available. This month we cover: (1) the SRA’s annual AML and sanctions data-gathering exercise, (2) the Data (Use and Access) Bill moving through Parliament, (3) the LSB’s enforcement against the SRA following the Axiom Ince review, and (4) changes to the SRA’s first-tier complaints handling requirements. See News Analysis: New Practice Compliance forecast as at 17 June 2025. Financial sanctions OFSI publishes guidance on sanctions compliance threats for art market and high-value goods The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) has issued guidance evaluating threats to UK financial sanctions compliance in the art market and the high-value goods sector....

Brexit highlights In this issue: Brexit SI Constitutional and administrative law Judicial review Public procurement Subsidy control and State aid Information law State security and intelligence Other public law news Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information UK-EU relations—Government responds to Business and Trade Committee report The government has issued its reply to the House of Commons Business and Trade Committee’s Sixth Special Report of Session 2024–25, ‘How to strengthen UK-EU relations: Policy Priorities for the Summit’. It sets out outcomes from the May 2025 UK-EU Summit, including a new UK-EU Security and Defence Partnership to deepen defence industrial co-operation and respond to hybrid threats and weaknesses in critical infrastructure. The response also confirms agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures, a 12-year fisheries arrangement, and stronger law enforcement co-operation. Further priorities include joint action to address non-market economies and economic crime,...

In this issue: Social housing Planning Healthcare Children's social care Public procurement Education Governance Social care Environmental law and climate change Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Social housing Housing—judicial review correct route to challenge section 189A plans (R (AA) v Waltham Forest LBC) In R (AA) v Waltham Forest LBC, the council’s contention that sections 202 and 204 of the Housing Act 1996 offered an adequate alternative remedy to contest a housing needs assessment and personal housing plan under section 189A was rejected by the Administrative Court as “essentially unarguable”. The 1996 Act clearly delineates which determinations are subject to statutory review and appeal, and section 189A is not among them. Although this paves the way for additional judicial reviews of section 189A plans, the court underlined that it was not throwing the doors wide open; weak claims will still be screened out at the permission stage. Authored...