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In probate practice, a warning is a formal notice issued from the Probate Registry at the request of someone seeking a grant of probate or letters of administration. It calls on the caveator to enter an appearance within a set period, stating their interest and grounds. If no appearance is entered, the caveat can be warned off and the grant sealed; if an appearance is entered, the caveat stands and the matter proceeds as a contentious probate dispute. In England and Wales, the procedure is set out in the Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987 (including rr 45–46). A warning is issued by the Probate Registry (formerly the nominated registry) and served on the caveator, who must enter an appearance or risk removal of the caveat. In Northern Ireland, a similar process applies under the Non-Contentious Probate Rules (NI), with the same practical effect. In Ireland, under the Rules of the Superior Courts (Order 79), the caveator must both enter an appearance and issue and serve a summons setting out their objection to the sealing of the grant. Failure to do so allows the applicant to proceed. There is no equivalent “warning off a caveat” mechanism in Scottish confirmation practice.
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Enforcing Child Arrangements Orders: Procedure for Unpaid Work Enforcement Orders under the Children Act 1989 (England and Wales)

Procedural Guide This Procedural Guide explains the process for seeking an enforcement order under the Children Act 1989 (ChA 1989) to secure compliance with a child arrangements order (CAO). Such an order may require the respondent to complete unpaid work. It sets out details of the following: Who can apply Pre-action requirements Criminal standard of proof Orders the court may make Restrictions on making an enforcement order The procedure applies where a CAO has a warning notice properly attached and it is alleged the order has been breached, making enforcement necessary. Enforcing contact provisions can be difficult where the parent with whom the child lives is opposed to contact. Under ChA 1989 the court has extended powers to enforce all provisions of CAOs, not just those about contact but also those concerning a child’s living arrangements...

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UK Financial Services Authority consultation papers 2008–2013: archived tracker with links to FSA webpages and PDFs

This tracker outlines the consultation papers issued by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) from 2008–2013, listed in reverse date order, and includes links to the relevant FSA webpage and/or PDF versions of the papers. For details of Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) consultation papers, together with subsequent rules and guidance, see: • FCA consultation paper tracker-2021 [Archived] 2013 Publication date Consultation Paper (including FSA webpage if available) Description March 2013 - FSA webpage: CP13/9: Implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive Part 2; CP13/9: Follow-up consultation on draft rules and guidance for implementing the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). March 2013 - FSA webpage: CP13/8: Publishing information about warning notices; CP13/8: Proposals on how the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) would publish details about the subject-matter of a warning notice where it considers publication appropriate. March 2013 - FSA webpage: CP13/7: Consumer credit regulation-our proposed regime; CP13/7: Invites views on the proposed framework and rules for the new consumer...

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Checklist: serving a valid section 25 LTA 1954 landlord’s notice to terminate protected business tenancies and propose renewal terms or oppose renewal (England and Wales)

This is a checklist for service of a section 25 notice by a landlord under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (LTA 1954) terminating a tenancy. Check that the proper form has been used, and that it contains the necessary warning notices addressed to tenants. Distinct versions of the section 25 notice are required depending on the landlord’s position: landlords who are not opposing renewal landlords who intend to resist the grant of a new lease Whether the notice is opposed or unopposed, it must follow the prescribed form or be ‘substantially to the like effect’...

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UK employment law weekly highlights: 28 March 2024—April reforms, flexible working Code, National Insurance cuts, minimum wage, Vento bands, industrial action, Northern Ireland updates

In this issue Working time and flexible working Pay Tax Prohibited conduct (discrimination etc) Employment tribunal equality claims Diversity and gender pay gap Industrial action Unfair dismissal Employment tribunals Immigration Northern Ireland ESG and sustainability: employment issues Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers New Q&As Working time and flexible working Code of Practice (Requests for Flexible Working) Order 2024 (SI 2024/429): The Order designates 6 April 2024 as the date on which the updated Code of Practice on handling requests for flexible working, issued by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) under section 199 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULR(C)A 1992), takes effect. It also clarifies that the revised Code does not cover applications for flexible working made under section 80F of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA 1996) that are lodged on or before 5 April 2024;...

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UK corporate crime update: court backlogs, POCA disclosure orders, sanctions/OFSI changes, DUAA 2025, FCA Woodford, HSE reviews, AML developments and prosecutions—2 October 2025

In this issue: Criminal procedure and evidence Proceeds of crime Appeal and judicial review Sentencing Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Cybercrime and data protection offences Environmental offences Financial services and pensions offences Food safety and hygiene offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Local authority prosecutions Money laundering International LexTalk®Corporate Crime: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Criminal procedure and evidence Court delays soar as backlogs break records Between April and June 2025, the criminal courts in England and Wales amassed an unprecedented caseload of almost 440,000, with incoming matters exceeding disposals and a system hampered by long-standing funding shortfalls. In response, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), together with The Rt Hon David Lammy MP, confirmed extra resources to accelerate outcomes for...

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UK corporate crime weekly: sanctions consolidation, AML reforms, Online Safety revocations, environmental and H&S actions, SFO disclosure issues, FCA anti-fraud, FTPF and greenwashing, insolvency fraud—16 October 2025

In this issue: Criminal procedure and evidence Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Consumer protection and cartels Cybercrime and data protection offences Environmental offences Financial services and pensions offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Insolvency offences and Companies Act offences Local authority prosecutions Money laundering Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Criminal procedure and evidence Email caution offers a rare glimpse into SFO record-keeping. Disclosures show a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) official urged investigators to avoid setting out case concerns in emails, highlighting how grinding disclosure disputes shaped the agency’s approach while it was under intense scrutiny over its evidence practices. See News Analysis: Email warning provides rare sight into SFO record-keeping... Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls FCDO issues guidance on consolidating UK sanctions lists by January...

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UK LLP PSC register: identifying PSCs and RLEs, significant influence, fund structures, investigation duties, and Companies House filings (including ECCTA 2023 reforms)

People with significant control (PSC) regime The architecture of the people with significant control (PSC) regime, which first commenced on 6 April 2016, is contained in Part 21A of the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006). Its purpose is to tackle worries about the lack of transparency in corporate ownership, where historically the register captured only the legal holder of shares, not always the beneficial owner. By requiring a PSC register, more precise and up‑to‑date details are available about who ultimately owns and directs companies and other bodies, and this information is made public via the central register at Companies House and remains accessible to the public. It assists prospective investors in their decision‑making. It likewise aids law enforcement bodies with money laundering enquiries. LLPs formed under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 must keep a record of persons with significant control over the LLP under the Limited Liability Partnerships (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2016, SI 2016/340 (the LLP Regulations), as amended by the Information about People...

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UK Prudential Regulation Authority supervisory intervention and enforcement: statutory notices, decision-making committees (including EDMC), hearings and Upper Tribunal references under FSMA 2000, and securitisation enforcement powers

This Practice Note This Practice Note sets out how the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) conducts its formal administrative procedures under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA 2000), with particular emphasis on Part XXVI (Notices), alongside the PRA’s statements of policy and procedure for reaching decisions... Outcomes may involve supervisory steps—such as varying or imposing requirements—or formal enforcement, including a public censure or a financial penalty, directed at PRA‑authorised firms or individuals... It explains the PRA’s decision‑making routes for issuing statutory notices under FSMA 2000, namely: Supervisory Notices Warning Notices Decision Notices Final Notices Notices of Discontinuance The Note also sets out how subjects can make representations, including orally, at a hearing before PRA decision‑making bodies such as the Supervision, Risk and Policy Committee (SRPC) or the Enforcement Decision Making Committee (EDMC)... The Securitisation Regulation 2024 (SI 2024/102) broadened the PRA’s enforcement remit to cover firms engaged in securitisation that are not PRA‑authorised. Under the...

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Tier 1 (Investor) UK—archived: Practical guidance on AML, client management, ILR/naturalisation absences, dependants, tax and KoLL; extensions/settlement for existing holders and alternative routes

ARCHIVED : The Tier 1 (Investor) category was closed to initial applications, without warning, from 16:00 on 17 February 2022 through Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules CP 632. Applicants with existing permission in this route can still seek to extend their leave, and may apply for entry clearance from outside the UK if they have held Tier 1 (Investor) leave within the 12 months before the date of application, as well as apply for settlement. Extension applications, whether made in the UK or abroad, must be lodged by 17 February 2026. Applications for indefinite leave to remain must be submitted by 17 February 2028. For additional details, see: LNB News 17/02/2022 76. This Practice Note—last updated before the post-Brexit work and study routes introduced in December 2020 via Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 617—has been kept in archived form for historical interest. Anti-money laundering duties and other client due diligence processes, together with advisers’ own regulatory compliance...

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Competition law red flags for staff: cartels, abuse of dominance, RPM, territorial and customer restrictions, exclusivity, tying/bundling, predatory pricing and refusals to supply

Behaviour red flags are situations that should prompt you to probe further. Though they can be hard to spot, many scenarios can indicate the presence of anti-competitive conduct. This awareness tool highlights potential competition law warning signs, indicators, traits or behaviours to be especially alert to at all times. Even a single red flag may suggest anti-competitive conduct. 1 Cartel behaviour Any attempt to fix prices. Any attempt to engage in bid-rigging. ...

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Schedule of Employer‑Favouring Amendments to JCT SBC/AQ 2016 (England): Building Safety Act/HRB, Dutyholder and CDM compliance; design liability; collateral warranties; insurance; payment; insolvency; adjudication (arbitration removed)

The Contract comprises the completed Standard Building Contract With Approximate Quantities 2016 published by the JCT subject to the following amendments: This Contract adopts JCT SBC/AQ 2016 with extensive modifications to reflect design responsibility, building safety and commercial controls. Recitals: Contractor to provide a master programme and Schedule of Information Requirements; confirms site due diligence and accepts full CDP design liability. Articles: Dutyholder Regulations added; Tender Price covers Principal Contractor duties; arbitration removed; Schedule of Amendments prevails; strict protection of Third Party Agreements. Definitions/governance: new and revised terms (Building Safety Regulator, HRB, Practical Completion, Copyright Material, Design Sub‑contractors, Dutyholder Regulations); several deletions; English court jurisdiction. Design/materials/information: skill‑and‑care design and coordination; only new, compliant, non‑deleterious materials; golden thread storage; monthly programme reporting; site risks at Contractor’s risk. Procedures/controls: tighter instruction, testing, defects and as‑built duties; enhanced confidentiality and IP licences; HRB assistance; CDM/Dutyholder competency confirmations. Sub‑contracting/rights: prescribed sub‑contracts, insurances and delivery of collateral warranties/third‑party rights; limits on assignment. Payment/commercial: 28‑day final...

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Standard Non-Molestation Order and Case Management Directions (England and Wales): FLA 1996, FPR Part 3A participation, police disclosure, prohibition of cross-examination, Qualified Legal Representative scheme

At the Family Court held at [ Court name ] Case No: [ Case number ] Non-Molestation Order The Family Law Act 1996 Full name(s) of the child(ren)Boy or girlDate(s) of birth [ Insert ] [ Insert ] [ Insert ] [ Insert ] [ Insert ] [ Insert ] Before [ name of judge ], in private, on [ date ] at a [ type of hearing ] Important notice to the respondent, [ RESPONDENT NAME ] of [ RESPONDENT address ] You are required to comply with this order. Please read it thoroughly. If any part is unclear, seek advice from a solicitor, a Legal Advice Centre or the Citizens Advice Bureau. You have the right to ask the court to vary or discharge this order. Warning: without reasonable excuse, doing anything this order prohibits amounts to a criminal offence; on conviction you may be liable to imprisonment for a...

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IEB after entire governing body resignation: LA EIA 2006 Part 4 warning notice and any emergency powers beyond s 64

Neither the legislation—Part 4, Schedule 6 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (EIA 2006)—nor the guidance—Governance handbook and Schools causing concern—Statutory guidance for local authorities—addresses whether a duty to consult persists where a local authority intends to exercise its EIA 2006, s 65 powers to appoint an Interim Executive Board (IEB) after the entire governing body has stepped down. Warning notice As stated at page 14 of the guidance, a warning notice under Part 4 of the EIA 2006 must be provided in writing to the school’s governing body and must include: the matters on which the local authority’s concerns are based...

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LTA 1954 contracting-out: AFL plan changes, no boundary change

Form LTBT1 Form LTBT1 is prescribed by the Regulatory Reform (Business Tenancies) (England and Wales) Order 2003, SI 2003/3096 (the Order). Where the parties intend to contract out of, or exclude, sections 24–28 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (LTA 1954), the Order stipulates that particular steps must be completed before any such agreement is concluded. Landlords frequently seek the flexibility of a contracted‑out lease, as it allows the tenancy to end on expiry of the term without the tenant acquiring a right to a new lease. Under the LTA 1954, the former position required court approval for a contracted‑out arrangement (the Pre‑2004 Procedure). The Order replaced that regime with a new process that obliges the landlord to serve a warning notice in, or in a form substantially similar to, that set out in SI 2003/3096. This notice must be given before the lease is granted or, if the parties propose to enter into an agreement for lease, before that agreement is made, because the tenant must receive...

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Non-gross misconduct: Is unpaid suspension a lawful sanction?

In ordinary circumstances, the employer determines the range of disciplinary sanctions, together with the rules on how, and in which situations, they should be used, and records these within its disciplinary policy. For initial misconduct where instant dismissal would not be fitting, a tiered approach to warnings is commonly adopted, aligned with the disciplinary framework set out in the Acas Code of Practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures (the Acas Code). The terms of the Acas Code ought to be reviewed with care when managing disciplinary matters at work. Although a departure from the Acas Code will not, by itself, create liability, a tribunal can take such non‑compliance into consideration when assessing appropriate cases. It may, therefore, influence how relevant matters are decided accordingly...

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