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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 Sole traders, informal partnerships and outdated partnership deeds are common.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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Kearney and the BBC v Security Service [2025] UKIPTrib 13 What are the practical implications of this case? This ruling reaffirms the Tribunal’s stance on the NCND practice, and the weight accorded to the state’s assessment of harm likely to flow from departing from it. In general, the Tribunal should accept that view unless it is shown to be irrational or otherwise infected by a public law error. Consistent use of NCND matters; abandoning the convention in a single matter may prompt inferences in other disputes where deviation was not warranted. Even so, departures have been found proper in some circumstances, including the decisions in DIL v Metropolitan Police [2014] EWHC 2184 ( QB) and Al Fawwaz v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 166 ( Ch). Whether NCND applies is sensitive to the facts. The IPT also considered the Court of Appeal in...
EU financial services developments ECB fines Crédit Agricole for non-compliance with climate and environmental decision The European Central Bank ( ECB) has levied periodic penalty payments totalling €7,551,050 on Crédit Agricole owing to its failure to meet an ECB decision concerning climate-related and environmental ( C& E) risks. According to the ECB, Crédit Agricole did not adequately evaluate the materiality of its climate and environmental risks by the ECB deadline. The central bank also stated that Crédit Agricole breached one of the obligations laid down in its 8 February 2024 decision which, among other points, required the institution to carry out a materiality assessment of its climate-related and environmental ( C& E) risks......
MWL International Ltd and another v HMRC [2026] UKUT 62 ( TCC) The businesses were trading entities that hired vehicles for directors to use as ‘mobile working offices’. Overnight, the vehicles routinely stayed at one director’s home, which also served as the company’s registered office. Every one of the directors also owned another car privately. No journey logs were maintained at all. In 1993, the Inland Revenue agreed to regard the vehicles as pooled cars under what is now section 167 of the Income Tax ( Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 ( ITEPA 2003), and therefore free from any NICs. The companies continued to depend on that agreement until HMRC determined that the vehicles were not pooled cars and that the companies were accordingly chargeable to Class 1A NICs for the 2015 to 2020 years. Before the First-tier Tax Tribunal ( FTT), the...
Mergers The CMA has opened an invitation to comment regarding the proposed acquisition of Telegraph Media Group Holdings Limited by Daily Mail and General Trust plc—see the dedicated case page for details. Note— For all active mergers before the CMA, see the UK mergers—ongoing cases tracker. Upcoming dates For dates of forthcoming UK competition developments, please see the UK Competition calendar......
Financial services developments FSCS publishes budget update for 2026/27 The Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS) has released a budget update, setting out management expenses of £108m for 2026/27. Within this, £97m covers core expenditure, a 6% drop from the prior year, alongside a further £11m to bolster the FSCS’s existing revolving credit facility ( RCF), aimed at improving funding readiness and reinforcing trust in the UK financial services sector. With the extra RCF costs included, the FSCS’s total 2026/27 budget remains aligned with inflation. The Prudential Regulation Authority ( PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA) are consulting on a 2026/27 Management Expenses Levy Limit of £113m, representing an inflation-only uplift of £4.4m on 2025/26. This also provides for an unlevied contingency reserve of £5m, unchanged from 2025/26. The most recent 2025/26 forecast stays at £108.6m, inclusive of an unlevied reserve of £5m, as set out in...
Mergers UMG/ Downtown conditionally cleared after phase II The Commission has given conditional approval to the proposed acquisition by Universal Music Group N. V. ( UMG) of Downtown Music Holdings LLC ( Downtown). UMG, based in the Netherlands, runs operations spanning wholesale recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audio-visual content. It owns and operates divisions active in these fields. Downtown, based in the US, is a rights management and music services business. It supplies artist and label ( A& L) services to third-party record artists and labels, provides music publishing support to third-party authors and songwriters, and undertakes royalty administration alongside other ancillary services for third-party artists and labels. During phase II, the Commission concluded that the deal would not significantly hinder effective competition in the recorded music, A& L and music publishing markets in which UMG and Downtown intersect and overlap...
The CPRC no longer circulates the supporting papers with its minutes, so this News Analysis is not accompanied by documents explaining the matters discussed. A copy of the minutes is available here: Minutes of the CPR Committee meeting... Welcome, apologies and introductory remarks (item 1) The Chair opened by welcoming attendees, with particular thanks to the Civil Justice Council ( CJC) observer, Mr John Cuss, joining as the new CJC link member. The minutes of the 7 November 2025 meeting (see News Analysis: Minutes of the CPR Committee meeting—7 November 2025) were approved, subject to minor changes. The action log was noted: regarding the court’s power to order disclosure from a non-party, no further consultation is required and the intention is to include this in the next Civil Procedure Rules ( CPR) updates, ie April 2026. On the initial report concerning arbitral awards, it was...
Financial services developments EIOPA updates guidelines on supervisory review process and treatment of market and counterparty risk exposures The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority ( EIOPA) has refreshed and updated its guidance for the supervisory review process, as well as the approach to market and counterparty risk exposures within the standard formula. The main purpose of these revisions is to reflect the Solvency II review by clarifying and streamlining existing provisions and processes, while extending their remit to encompass emerging risks. Drawing on the practical application of the supervisory review process guidance since their first adoption in 2015, EIOPA indicates that enhancements have been identified to bolster flexibility and adaptability, mirroring the evolving supervisory landscape across Europe. Although the adjustments do not apply directly to the insurance sector, EIOPA expects they will materially increase predictability in firms’ dealings with...
EU financial services developments EIOPA updates guidelines on supervisory review process and treatment of market and counterparty risk exposures The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority ( EIOPA) has refreshed its guidelines on the supervisory review process, and on the handling of market and counterparty risk exposures within the standard formula. The main aim is to align the guidelines with the Solvency II review by refining and simplifying current provisions, while widening their scope to encompass emerging risks. Building on experience from applying the supervisory review process guidelines since their 2015 adoption, EIOPA highlights improvements to strengthen flexibility and adaptability, mirroring the shifting supervisory environment across Europe. Although the revisions are not directly applicable to the insurance sector, EIOPA considers that they should enhance predictability in firms’ dealings with supervisory authorities......
An updated statutory code of conduct An updated statutory code of conduct, which Phillipson has yet to lay before Parliament, is set to guide only public service providers and associations on their legal duties. It stems from the April 2025 judgment that protections against sex-based discrimination do not directly include transgender women. Speaking with clients of the Christian Legal Centre, Phillipson clarified that the still-unapproved code 'does not apply to workplace regulations'......
Bath Racecourse Co. Ltd and others v Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe SE and others On the opening day of the hearing, counsel for companies compelled to shut during the March 2020 UK lockdown told the UK Supreme Court that the Coronavirus Job Retention Fund did not, as a matter of law, remove or reduce the liability to pay wages owed to staff. The dispute, Bath Racecourse Co. Ltd and others v Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe SE and others, is politically contentious. Its outcome will determine whether small businesses or insurers end up as the ultimate beneficiary of a portion of the £70bn of taxpayers’ money that was spent to support furloughed workers when the pandemic broke out in 2020. The case focuses on the operation of savings clauses......
On Tuesday, MEPs approved the agriculture safeguard linked to the EU– Mercosur trade pact, removing the last parliamentary obstacle before the measure is published and implemented in parallel with the accord. This regulation enhances the EU’s capacity to respond promptly if farm imports from Mercosur states—namely Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay—cause, or risk causing, serious injury to EU producers at home. In a Strasbourg plenary, France, members supported amendments intended to simplify the trigger for intervention and significantly speed up investigative procedures......
2025 is set to become the most expensive year on record for property insurers Deloitte reported that its review indicates claims in the last four months of 2025 could reach £1.5bn, taking the annual figure to £6.1bn. That would be a modest rise on the over £6bn paid in 2024, Deloitte noted, yet as much as 50% above the amounts seen between 2021 and 2023. In those years, payouts ranged from £4bn to a little over £4.8bn. ‘2025 is set to become the most expensive year on record for property insurers,’ said Cherry Chan, insurance partner at Deloitte UK......
The European Commission has set out this year’s slate of priorities, and what should be set aside, for secondary legislation to implement the EU AI Act, according to an internal note viewed by MLex. Secondary legal acts are commonly used in EU lawmaking to confer powers on the Commission to amend or add non‑essential elements of a law via a delegated act, or to secure uniform application through an implementing act. Where the basic law is silent, the EU executive may decide when to adopt such secondary measures, enabling it to order its own regulatory agenda. In a list compiled earlier this month, the Commission detailed its priorities for implementing the EU AI Act in 2026. It also pointed to a set of ‘de‑prioritised’ items, although it is still uncertain whether that implies they are not due to be adopted this...
In this issue: Brexit headlines Brexit SIs Judicial review Public procurement Constitutional and administrative law Equality and human rights Public sector contracts Subsidy control and State aid Other Public Law news Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Brexit headlines Government responds to NI Scrutiny Committee report on Windsor Framework The UK government has issued its response to the Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee’s report, Strengthening Northern Ireland’s voice in the context of the Windsor Framework. Dated 6 February 2026, the reply accepts a number of recommendations and sets out various implementation steps. It also restates backing for the Windsor Framework while safeguarding the UK internal market. See: LNB News 11/02/2026 37. EFRA Committee raises scrutiny and devolution concerns over UK– EU SPS...
In this issue: Key developments and horizon scanning Residential tenancies Electronic communications Service charges Easements and covenants Disputes and remedies Enforcing security and property insolvency 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 Key developments and horizon scanning Updates on draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill The Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill was unveiled on 27 January 2026. Its core aim is to dismantle the feudal leasehold regime by revitalising and expanding commonhold, while prohibiting leasehold tenure for most newly built flats. For further insight, see: News Analysis: Draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill—the demise of the long leasehold flat, abolition of residential ground rent and new ways for...
In this issue: Free trade agreements Anti-dumping Safeguards Dispute settlement Lex Talk®International Trade: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Free trade agreements Commission announces entry into force of EU- Singapore Digital Trade Agreement The European Commission has confirmed that the EU- Singapore Digital Trade Agreement ( DTA) took effect on 2 February 2026, marking the EU’s first standalone bilateral accord on digital trade. The DTA sets out rules for cross-border digital dealings and captures pledges on online consumer safeguards, the protection of personal data and privacy, together with measures against unsolicited commercial messages. It advances paperless trade, accepts the legal effect of electronic signatures, contracts and invoices, and bans customs duties on electronic transmissions. It likewise outlaws unjustified data localisation obligations and any compelled handover of software source code. The DTA builds upon the 2019 EU- Singapore Free Trade Agreement, with talks on the accord having begun on 20 July...
In this issue: Air emissions and climate change Energy efficiency and buildings Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental information ESG and sustainability Marine Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Waste producer responsibility regimes Water, flooding and drainage Daily and weekly news alerts Air emissions and climate change HMRC opens consultation on draft CBAM secondary legislation HM Revenue & Customs ( HMRC) has launched a technical consultation on draft secondary rules for the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism ( CBAM), starting on 1 January 2027. Published on 10 February 2026 and open until 24 March 2026, four draft regulations cover administrative matters, rate-setting methodologies, carbon price relief decisions, and transitional arrangements. The proposals set out obligations for registration, filing returns, reimbursement processes, determining the weight of CBAM goods, and maintaining records. CBAM will levy a carbon charge on...
Financial services developments HMT consults on changes to the Appointed Representatives regime HM Treasury ( HMT) has opened a consultation on plans to amend the legislative framework governing Appointed Representatives ( ARs), prompted by worries that inadequate supervision of some ARs is exposing consumers to harm. Feedback is requested by 9 April 2026. HMT explains that the targeted adjustments set out in the paper would: curb misconduct linked to ARs. Firms seeking to utilise ARs would first be required to secure approval from the Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA), allowing the FCA to confirm they possess the right expertise and capacity to supervise their ARs effectively ensure appropriate consumer protections are in place when problems arise......
In this issue: Sanctions Data protection Other Practice Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Sanctions OFSI amends General Licence INT/2022/1947936 and UK Financial Sanctions FAQs The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation ( OFSI) has refreshed its UK Financial Sanctions FAQs, revising FAQs 147 and 148. OFSI has also varied General Licence INT/2022/1947936 and withdrawn the expired General Licence INT/2025/8202932. See: LNB News 05/02/2026 36. OFSI extends General Licence for Lukoil Bulgaria entities’ business operations OFSI has prolonged General Licence INT/2025/7895596, allowing business activities with Lukoil Bulgaria entities to continue. The licence will now end on 13 August 2026. First granted on 14 November 2025 under regulation 64 of the Russia ( Sanctions) ( EU Exit) Regulations 2019, SI 2019/855, it was later updated on 20 November 2025 to broaden coverage to aviation and bunker subsidiaries. OFSI has also revised FAQ 173 within its UK Financial...
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