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R (Greyhound Board of Great Britain Ltd) v Welsh Ministers [2026] EWHC 670 (Admin) What are the practical implications of this case? The ruling reinforces the constitutional divide between the courts and the legislature. It explains that the scheme and framework of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (GWA 2006) embody that separation of powers, and that any judicial attempt to recognise and enforce a common law obligation on Welsh Ministers to consult prior to introducing legislation in the Senedd would trespass upon that boundary. This is not a departure from established principle; case law has already upheld comparable rules for lawmakers in Scotland and at Westminster. However, this is the first express confirmation of the position for Welsh lawmakers, and the first time this dimension of the GWA 2006 has been analysed in such depth. The court examined earlier
The solution arrived through the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), a quasi‑judicial body handling mass claims, created under UN Security Council Resolution 687. By addressing environmental harm—most notably via its ‘F4’ claim class—the UNCC set a seminal benchmark shaping how international law and contemporary arbitral panels allocate financial responsibility for wartime ecological devastation. With present-day wars in areas such as Eastern Europe and the Middle East bringing dam breaches, strikes on chemical facilities, and the burning of farmland, the UNCC’s legacy endures as an essential reference point for states, global investors, and companies engaged in post‑conflict arbitration. The F4 claims: Quantifying the unquantifiable Prior to the 1990s, mechanisms in international law for war reparations overwhelmingly favoured property loss, foregone earnings, and bodily injury. The natural world was commonly treated as a mute, non-compensable victim of armed hostilities...
Understanding the farming business as a business Many farms still use long-standing structures that arose by habit, not strategy. Sole traders, informal partnerships and outdated partnership deeds are common. While once effective, such setups can cause major issues around succession, tax planning and involving the next generation. A corporate team can take a fresh, business-led view of the farm, asking: Who owns the land and other critical assets? Who manages daily operations? Who carries the risk and who enjoys the return? What is the enduring plan for succession? From this review, the team can confirm whether the current setup is fit for purpose or if an alternative — for example an updated partnership agreement, a company, a limited liability partnership, or a blended model — would better meet the family’s aims. Tax efficiency through joined-up advice Tax sits at the centre of most
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Pagden (as liquidator of Core VCT IV Plc and Core VCT V plc) and others v Fry and other cases [2025] EWHC 2316 ( Ch) What are the practical implications of this case? This decision clarifies that, although liquidators’ firms and their personnel may, in certain circumstances, invoke limitation clauses in relation to distinct contractual or tortious duties (always subject to the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 and fact-specific questions of vicarious liability), individual liquidators cannot restrict the statutory obligations that arise under a statutory trust. Sensible practice is for liquidators and their firms to revisit engagement letters to (a) set out, with precision, the separation between liquidators’ statutory functions and any contractual or advisory services; and (b) add explicit carve-outs confirming that limitation provisions have no application to the liquidators’ statutory duties. What was the background? The claimants are three companies that issued...
In this issue: Planning and Infrastructure Bill Marine planning Planning policy Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Related Documents Planning and Infrastructure Bill Planning and Infrastructure Bill: government ‘pro-growth’ amendments moving to Lords report stage. The government has set out a bundle of amendments to its Planning and Infrastructure Bill, to be scrutinised at report stage in the House of Lords from 20 October 2025. Framed as part of its ‘pro-growth’ push to speed up delivery of homes and infrastructure, the package introduces a fresh power for ministers to issue ‘holding directions’, preventing councils from refusing applications while a call-in is being considered. It also proposes safeguards to stop permissions expiring during judicial review, together with steps to streamline approvals for major projects. See: LNB News 14/10/2025 41. Marine planning Defra publishes response to consultation on Marine Recovery Fund. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( Defra) has...
In this issue: Employment taxes Companies and corporation tax VAT Budgets and Finance Bills International Real estate tax Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Employment taxes Court of Appeal dismisses ‘discontinuous contract of employment’ while confirming need for causal link to carelessness for extension of assessment timeframe ( Mainpay Ltd v HMRC) In Mainpay Ltd v HMRC [2025] EWCA Civ 1290, the Court of Appeal confirmed that extended assessment time limits apply where there is carelessness, and held that sporadic work under one contract is not continuous employment. HMRC was required to demonstrate a sufficient causal connection between taxpayer carelessness and the tax lost to justify using the longer time limits, and in this instance it satisfied that requirement. See News Analysis: Court of Appeal dismisses ‘discontinuous contract of employment’ while confirming need for causal link to carelessness for extension of assessment timeframe ( Mainpay Ltd v...
In this issue: Forfeiture Repairing obligations and dilapidations Residential tenancies Disputes and remedies Trespass and adverse possession Neighbour and party wall disputes Key developments and horizon scanning Property disputes in Scotland Additional property Disputes updates Lex Talk®Property Disputes: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Forfeiture Relief from forfeiture and abuse of process ( Mentmore Golf Investments v Gaymer) In Mentmore Golf Investments v Gaymer [2025] EWHC 2604 ( Ch), the Chancery Division determined an appeal by Mentmore Golf Investments (‘ Investments’) against HHJ Murch’s decision striking out its mortgagee’s claim for relief from forfeiture of the lease of Mentmore Golf Course, where the respondent, Mr Gaymer, was the freeholder and landlord. The forfeited leasehold interest belonged to Mentmore Greenland Ltd (‘...
In this issue: Key PI and Clinical Negligence developments Civil procedure rule committee minutes Occupational disease Road traffic accidents Public authorities and the state Clinical negligence Lexis Nexis® PI & Clinical Negligence Quantum Database Lex Talk®PI & Clinical Negligence: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Lexis Nexis® Webinars Useful information Key PI and Clinical Negligence developments LSB looks at who can litigate after shock Mazur ruling On 13 October 2025, England’s legal oversight regulator confirmed that it is reassessing guidance issued by regulators and representative bodies following an unexpected ruling that has left law firms uncertain, casting doubt over which litigation activities may lawfully be undertaken by employees without any formal qualification. See News Analysis: LSB looks at who can litigate after shock Mazur ruling. High Court upholds use of surveillance footage despite flawed procedure and confirms privilege over draft expert report In Perrin v Walsh [2025] EWHC 2536 ( KB), the King’s Bench Division...
Wigan Council v Property Alliance Group Ltd; Trafford Council v Property Alliance Group Ltd [2025] EWHC 2336 ( Ch) What are the practical implications of this case? This judgment offers an application of Rossendale [2021] UKSC 16, [2022] AC 690 on facts that were not assumed. It examines and applies the Rossendale test of the ‘real or practical ability to exercise a legal right to possession’, and determines that two variants of NDR liability avoidance schemes failed to achieve their stated aim. The consequence was that PAG remained liable to the billing authorities for the non-domestic rates they sought to recover. As such, the decision provides an illustration of the correct method for assessing the validity of schemes of this nature, and practitioners advising property investors or development companies should be alert to the difficulties presented. What was the...
In this issue: Key DR developments Claims and remedies Costs and funding Cross-border disputes Litigation New content Dates for your diary Useful information Daily and weekly news alerts Key DR developments Civil Procedure Rule Committee Minutes of the CPRC meeting held on 4 July 2025: The Civil Procedure Rule Committee ( CPRC) met on 4 July 2025 in a hybrid sitting at The Rolls Building ( Royal Courts of Justice) and via video link. The record ranges over matters including interim serious crime prevention orders, digital rule-making for the Online Civil Money Claims and the Damages Claims Portal, together with the Online Procedure Rule Committee’s prospective remit, revisions on sealing and service of claim forms, a review of civil restraint orders, and the impending Extended Fixed Recoverable Costs stocktake consultation. For fuller insight, see News...
In this issue: Tax treatment Remuneration issues for financial services firms Budgets, Autumn Statements and Finance Bills Useful information HMRC Manuals tracker Dates for your diary Weekly highlights from other practice areas Tax treatment HMRC publishes minutes from the Share Schemes Forum held on 3 July 2025 HMRC has released the minutes from the Share Schemes Forum meeting on 3 July 2025. The Forum provides a platform for open discussion between HMRC and representative bodies on policy, operational and procedural matters relating to tax and employment-related securities. The minutes mainly summarise developments that HMRC has subsequently issued, notably concerning the impact of PISCES on tax-advantaged share plans (for the current position, see Practice Note: PISCES and share incentive arrangements). They also record the following additional points: HMRC’s work to update guidance on the exercise of...
In this issue: Copyright & associated rights Trade mark/passing off Patents Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Copyright & associated rights Paddington Bear wins injunction against knock-off souvenirs Law360, London: The owner of Paddington Bear has obtained a temporary injunction against a London souvenir distributor it has accused of copyright infringement, only weeks before a new musical is due to launch. See: Paddington bear wins injunction against knock-off souvenirs. Trade mark/passing off No set-off clause effective against defence of circuity of action ( Alaska Airlines v Virgin Aviation) In Alaska Airlines Inc v Virgin Aviation TM Ltd [2025] EWHC 2505 ( Comm), the court gave summary judgment in favour of Virgin Aviation on sums owed under a contract with Alaska Airlines, despite a circuity of action defence grounded in unjust enrichment; the unjust enrichment claim was rejected as flawed on proper...
In this issue: Lending National Iranian Oil Company v Crescent Gas Corp Ltd Real estate finance Sustainable finance Debt capital markets Derivatives Regulation for derivatives lawyers Technology in banking transactions Regulation for banking lawyers Sanctions Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Useful information Lending UK Finance responds to Cabinet Office consultation on NSI Act notification regulations UK Finance has submitted its reply to the Cabinet Office’s consultation on amendments to the National Security and Investment Act 2021 ( Notifiable Acquisition) ( Specification of Qualifying Entities) Regulations 2021, SI 2021/1264. Representing about 300 financial services businesses, UK Finance backs the proposed exclusions for certain internal reorganisations and the addition of standalone sector definitions for critical minerals and semiconductors. Nonetheless, it describes the consultation as a ‘missed opportunity for more...
New Risk & Compliance forecast as at 15 October 2025 Our Risk & Compliance forecast dated 15 October 2025 monitors proposed regulatory developments affecting risk and compliance, helping you prepare for any updates that might impact your organisation. Use it to plan for any changes relevant to your organisation. Please review it in detail; however, key points that ought to be on your radar are highlighted below as you assess priorities now. New items we’re tracking this month Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 ( Consequential, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2025 ( SI 2025/1037)—published on 23 September 2025. They revise a range of primary and secondary legislation as a consequence of ECCTA 2023, which scrapped the requirement for companies to maintain their own versions of registers......
In this issue: Key R& I developments Corporate insolvency Restructuring Directors and insolvency Insolvency litigation Financial institutions R& I in Scotland Daily and weekly news alerts Corporate Rescue and Insolvency ( October 2025) Key dates for restructuring and insolvency professionals New content Key R& I developments Insolvency Service announces update on INSSight system rollout The Insolvency Service confirms that deployment of its new internal case management platform, INSSight, will start in late October 2025 and continue into early November 2025. INSSight will support Official Receiver Services and Estate Accounts, including banking activities, and will run alongside the existing ISCIS Online service, which will remain available during transition. While the rollout is underway, users may face delays processing cheque or BACS payment requests, posting receipts to the Insolvency Service Account ( ISA), and undertaking bulk case transfers. The Individual Insolvency Register will stay accessible, although there will be a short pause on registering new Individual Voluntary...
The construction sector, including major international projects, is no exception. In this article, we consider: what AI signifies in the setting of international construction projects, with an emphasis on Generative AI; how it operates, how it diverges from traditional AI, and why it is set to transform the industry how AI is already being applied across the construction lifecycle, including design optimisation, quality control, project scheduling, health and safety monitoring, and robotics the kinds of legal disputes that may emerge from adopting AI, such as intellectual property ownership, liability for errors, employment law challenges, and data privacy breaches What is AI? AI, in the broadest sense, is not new. It has existed in various forms for years—for example, predictive text on smartphones and email spam filters both run on AI. Most of the current focus, however, concerns a particular type known as ‘ Generative AI’. In 2022,...
In this issue: Practice and procedure Domestic abuse Financial provision Public children International children Court of Protection Daily and weekly news alerts Updated content New Q& As Useful information Practice and procedure QLR is an advocate for the court, not the parties ( K v P ( Criminal Solicitor as Court- Appointed QLR)) In K v P ( Criminal Solicitor as Court- Appointed QLR) [2025] EWFC 321, the Family Court ruled that a qualified legal representative ( QLR) who also acted as the alleged perpetrator’s criminal solicitor could not remain appointed as the court’s QLR. No impropriety by the QLR was alleged, and the President of the Family Division expressly said so, yet the solicitor’s appointment as QLR was ended nonetheless. Adam Bloodworth, a solicitor at Duncan Lewis Solicitors, explores the issues in QLR is an advocate for the court, not the parties ( K v P ( Criminal Solicitor as Court- Appointed...
In this issue: Banking and finance Competition and state aid Corporate Data protection and cybersecurity Free movement, immigration and employment Financial services Environment Insurance and reinsurance IP Life sciences Regulatory TMT Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Banking and finance The EBA has issued its concluding report, outlining how all 40 competent authorities have acted on its findings and recommendations concerning anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism ( AML/ CFT) supervision in banks, with improvements noted across EU/ EEA Member States. It observes that the majority have advanced materially, embracing a risk-based approach, crafting strategies, rolling out targeted supervisory programmes, and strengthening co-operation at domestic and international levels. The report notes that numerous authorities have brought national practice into line with EBA...
Risk & Compliance weekly highlights—16 October 2025 In this issue: Data Protection Sanctions AML, CTF & Counter- Proliferation Financing Cybersecurity Other Risk & Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Data Protection When pseudonymised data gets personal ( EDPS v SRB) This appeal considered whether pseudonymised information must always be treated as personal data under the General Data Protection Regulation ( Regulation ( EU) 2016/679). The Court of Justice dismissed the appeal in part, offering guidance on three areas: how pseudonymised data should be classified; what counts as data ‘relating to’ an individual; and the transparency duties when sharing data with third parties. The Court rejected the stance that pseudonymised data is invariably personal in all scenarios. Where effective measures prevent a recipient from re-identifying individuals, and the...
In this issue: Social housing Local Government Finance Children's social care Governance Judicial review Education Healthcare Public Procurement Social Care Licensing Environmental law and climate change Pensions Planning Highways Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Social housing Renting Homes ( Wales) Act 2016, payment of rent and electrical condition reports ( Beacon Cymru Group Ltd v Mitchell) Beacon Cymru Group Ltd v Mitchell addressed counterclaims from three contract-holders arising from landlords failing to provide electrical condition reports once the Renting Homes ( Wales) Act 2016 took effect. The court concluded that where rent had been paid, rather than withheld, the claimant landlords were not obliged to reimburse those sums for the period during which they were in breach. Article by Sarah Salmon, barrister at...
On 13 October 2025, Morningstar DBRS stated that insurers which have capped their exposure and adopted robust policy terms 'should absorb the shock'. First Brands entered formal bankruptcy proceedings on 29 September 2025 with an estimated US$11.6bn in liabilities. The failure has unsettled investors and heightened worries about a wider impact on the global economy. Trade credit insurance shields companies or their financial backers against non-delivery of goods or services arising from insolvency events......
In this issue: Public sector pensions The Pensions Regulator Members and benefits Funding, surplus and investment Dates for your diary Trackers Public sector pensions MHCLG proposes Fair Deal overhaul, raising LGPS minimum pension age and extending LGPS access The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government ( MHCLG) has opened a consultation on changes to the Local Government Pension Scheme ( LGPS) in England and Wales, spanning four main policy strands. Building on the May 2025 exercise focused on boosting member entitlements, the package would lift the normal minimum pension age to 57 in line with the Finance Act 2022, with protections for those with membership before 4 November 2021, and introduce strengthened Fair Deal measures so staff transferred out of local government retain uninterrupted LGPS participation. It also seeks to reinstate scheme access for councillors in England and extend...
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...
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