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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 Sole traders, informal partnerships and outdated partnership deeds are common.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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Sean Browes, the senior trustee representative at Dalriada Trustees Ltd ( Dalriada), informed the Work and Pension Committee ( Committee) that the sum constituted a first instalment. He declined to reveal the exact eventual amount to be repaid in total, or the timeframe for doing so. The push for redress comes after the Committee urged a faster route for employees left out of pocket when a company boss siphoned money from a workplace staff pension scheme. The Fraud Compensation Fund ( FCF), run by the Pension Protection Fund, has safeguarded members of qualifying defined benefit pension arrangements since 2005......
The Debenhams Retirement Scheme The Debenhams Retirement Scheme, which moved into the Pension Protection Fund in 2019 following the high street chain’s insolvency, is set to transfer to Clara under the agreement. Members will receive their full pension promises, plus arrears to compensate for any shortfall while the scheme was being assessed by the PPF ‘lifeboat’. Clara, operating a bridge-to-buyout model, remains the only superfund approved by the Pensions Regulator. The transaction represents just the second transfer to a superfund, a newer UK consolidation structure that brings multiple defined benefit schemes together so they can be administered more efficiently......
R (on the application of Lisle- Mainwaring) v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea [2024] EWHC 440 ( Admin) What are the practical implications of this case? This ruling offers a timely reminder of several well-established legal principles. First, following Mansell [2017], where a challenge concerns advice in a planning officer’s report, the test is whether, on a fair and holistic reading, members were materially misled on an issue relevant to the decision and the mistake was not corrected before it was taken. The court confirmed that this approach equally applies where members rely on oral statements made at committee, which add to the written report unless they are correcting it. Secondly, in light of Friends of the Earth [2020], a decision-maker is not obliged to traverse every matter that could conceivably be considered relevant and then expressly rule it out; they need not work through all...
Latest REUL reform SIs laid for sifting On 15 March 2024, the following SI was presented for sifting: The Retained EU Law ( Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 ( Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) ( Revocation) Regulations 2024 A comprehensive list of all proposed negative procedure SIs made under REUL( RR) A 2023 can be found here. Sifting process for proposed negative procedure SIs introduced under REUL( RR) A 2023 REUL( RR) A 2023 provides various delegated powers enabling both the government and the devolved administrations to make SIs to amend REUL and assimilated law. The principal legislative powers appear in REUL( RR) A 2023, ss 11–16. The key procedural obligations (including parliamentary scrutiny processes) applicable to these instruments are contained in REUL( RR) A 2023, s 20 and Schs 4–5......
In this issue: EU fundamentals Commercial Data protection and cybersecurity Free movement, immigration and employment Financial services Energy Environment IP Life sciences Regulatory TMT Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers EU fundamentals European Commission releases March 2024 infringements package The European Commission has unveiled its March 2024 infringements package, highlighting EU Member States it is pursuing for breaches of EU law. It is sending letters of formal notice, issuing reasoned opinions and making referrals to the Court of Justice against Member States including Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Slovenia, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Poland, Netherlands and Croatia, for infringements spanning the environment, internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises ( SMEs), migration, home affairs and security union, justice, energy and climate, and mobility and transport. See: LNB News 13/03/2024 51. Council of the EU allows EU to negotiate with Switzerland The Council of the EU has authorised the EU to begin...
In this issue: Public procurement Social housing Education Children's social care Social care Planning Local government finance Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Public procurement CCS publishes updated commercial pipeline under Procurement Act 2023 The Crown Commercial Service ( CCS) has set out the current priority schedule of commercial agreements expected to be let under the Procurement Act 2023 ( PA 2023), which the Cabinet Office expects to commence in October 2024. CCS has confirmed the Act will not be retrospective, so all existing live commercial agreements will continue to operate under the Public Contract Regulations 2015 ( PCR 2015), SI 2015/102. CCS also indicated it will run procurements under both PCR 2015 and PA 2023 for a time, during a transitional period, until current agreements end, are replaced, or otherwise lapse. See: LNB News 11/03/2024 82. Defra reports appointment of independent adviser to review food...
The background In AB v The Central Bank of Ireland, the fund Redhedge UCITS ICAV ( Redhedge) applied for fitness and probity clearance for an individual PCF ( AB) to take up both the roles of Non- Executive Director and Chairman. AB, an experienced executive, had already been authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland to carry out pre-approved controlled functions, acting as non-executive director or as chair in several funds as well as within a regulated fund administration company. He had previously chaired a fund that suffered substantial losses arising from impaired bonds which became the subject of a Central Bank investigation ( Ruvercap ICAV). On 5 December 2022, after an assessment interview followed by a later specific interview that the CBI considered necessary, a minded to refuse recommendation issued; this was then affirmed by a senior...
Delhi High Court—an arbitral award must reach the contracting parties, not their agents or counsel, to constitute valid service commencing limitation under the Indian Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 ( Ministry of Health & Family Welfare v M/s Hosmac Projects Division) Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and another v M/s Hosmac Projects Division of Hosmac India Private Ltd [ FOA( OS)( COMM) No 326 of 2019 and CM No 49717 of 2019] What are the practical implications of this case? Expiry of the limitation period is a frequent issue in section 34 petitions under the A& C Act. The ruling is significant as it addresses this through a mandatory preliminary step to any challenge: delivery to the parties to the arbitration agreement of a signed award copy, together with any...
In this issue: Practice and procedure Financial provision Private children International Lex Talk®Family: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New content Updated content New Q& As Useful information Practice and procedure CTJ publishes speech by Master of the Rolls on AI The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary ( CTJ) has released an address by the Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, concerning artificial intelligence, entitled ‘ AI– Transforming the work of lawyers and judges’, delivered at the AI Conference 2024: Transforming the Legal Landscape on 8 March 2024. He distilled the themes from judicial guidance on AI, stressing that anyone considering generative AI must first understand its capabilities and limits. He warned lawyers and judges not to input confidential material into public large language models ( LLMs), because such information could, in theory, become...
In this issue: Pensions taxation Funding, surplus and investment Types of workplace pension schemes Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Pensions taxation Pensions ( Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) Regulations 2024 published Laid before Parliament on 14 March 2024, the Pensions ( Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) Regulations 2024, SI 2024/356 ( PALAC Regulations), will, among other changes: amend the Finance Act 2024 on when schemes must report tax due on paid lump sums; clarify how the pension commencement excess lump sum operates; set the amount of overseas transfer allowance available where a member has already used part of their lifetime allowance; and introduce a statutory override for schemes. The PALAC Regulations take effect on 6 April 2024 and extend and apply to the UK. Up to 5 April 2024, a...
In this issue: Corporate insolvency processes Personal insolvency Restructuring Directors and insolvency Insurance and insolvency International restructuring and insolvency Daily and weekly news alerts Key dates for R& I professionals Latest Q& A Corporate insolvency processes Failed challenge to administrators' refinancing proposal ( Loveridge v Povey) The ruling addressed four applications, including a paragraph 74, Schedule B1 Insolvency Act 1986 challenge to the administrators’ refinancing proposal, and a request for an interim injunction to restrain another company from financing that restructuring. The court rejected the applications, finding that the applicant’s conduct in separate proceedings meant he could not rely on member standing to contest the administrators’ proposal; on the facts there was no unfair harm, and an interim injunction was inappropriate. See News Analysis: Failed challenge to administrators’ refinancing proposal ( Loveridge v Povey), written by Matthew Innes, barrister at Serle Court......
In this issue: Environmental impact assessment Planning policy Permitted development Planning for nationally significant infrastructure Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Q& As Related Documents Environmental impact assessment Court of Appeal rejects bid to overturn DCOs for A47 upgrades near Norwich ( Boswell v SST) In R (on the application of Boswell) v Secretary of State for Transport and another [2024] EWCA Civ 145, the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court’s decision, dismissing Dr Boswell’s challenge. The High Court had found no error of law in the Secretary of State’s grant of three development consent orders ( DCOs) for improvements to the A47 close to Norwich. The appellate court concluded that the Infrastructure Planning ( Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017, SI 2017/572 oblige the decision-maker to consider the likely significant...
In this issue: Key DR developments Claims and remedies Costs and funding Cross-border disputes Dates for your diary Useful information Daily and weekly news alerts Key DR developments Civil Procedure Rule Committee’s minutes Notes from the Civil Procedure Rule Committee ( CPRC) sitting on 2 February 2024—held entirely online via video conference—record a broad range of topics. Among these are the expansion of fixed recoverable costs ( FRC), the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (the Hague Judgments Convention), and the manner in which Judges are currently referenced within the Civil Procedure Rules ( CPR)—for further details, see the News Analysis: Minutes of the CPR Committee meeting—2 February 2024. Artificial Intelligence ( AI) Master of the Rolls on AI reshaping lawyers’ and judges’ work: The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary ( CTJ) has released a speech by the Master of the Rolls, Sir...
In this issue: Copyright & associated rights Designs Patents Confidential Information IP and technology Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Copyright & associated rights Chancery Division allows claim for breach of contract ( Photobooth Props Ltd v NEPBH Ltd) The Chancery Division upheld the claimants’ action in a dispute over the supply of photobooths and related accessories. In Photobooth Props Ltd v NEPBH Ltd [2023] EWHC 3478 ( IPEC), delivering an oral judgment, the court found that the eighth defendant ( MQ), together with the other defendants, had breached both implied and express terms of an oral agreement, including by competing with it and violating rights—copyright among them—that he had transferred to it. MQ had made false, fraudulent statements on which the claimants relied, and the...
In this issue: New technologies Internet Data protection Telecommunications Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Lex Talk®TMT: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information New technologies IPO publishes internal and external metaverse reports The Intellectual Property Office ( IPO) has released two studies: an internal landscape analysis mapping the metaverse’s patent and trade mark terrain, and an external review drawing on diverse sources to illuminate intellectual property ( IP) questions and obstacles arising as the metaverse evolves. The internal paper notes that surging interest in the metaverse is mirrored in IP activity, offering an evidential foundation for monitoring nascent technologies. It also sets out a panorama of the metaverse IP environment, examining patenting trajectories and international patent families alongside trade marks, employing keywords and...
The Competition and Markets Authority ( CMA) stated on 8 March 2024 that it strongly disputes a judgment delivered the same day by the Competition Appeal Tribunal ( CAT), which concluded that enforcement officials had not put crucial questions to a witness during the drugmakers’ appeal hearings. In July 2021, the CMA levied fines over alleged deals involving two companies now part of Accord Healthcare, together with their former parent Allergan plc, said to have postponed the launch of generic versions of the medicine produced by Waymade and AMCo, now Advanz Pharma. On 8 March 2024, Sarah Cardell, the CMA’s chief executive, said the authority had imposed substantial penalties after determining the firms took part in a market‑sharing arrangement that deprived the NHS of possible “savings from competition for this essential medicine”. Cardell added that the CAT’s decision to allow the appeals is...
PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights—14 March 2024 In this issue: CPR updates Costs Daily and weekly news alerts Useful information CPR updates Minutes of the CPR Committee meeting—2 February 2024 The CPR Committee ( CPRC) met on 2 February 2024, with the session held entirely online by video conference. The record notes several topics, among them the widening of fixed recoverable costs, the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (the Hague Judgments Convention), and how Judges are referenced within the Civil Procedure Rules. It confirms that extending the Fixed Recoverable Costs regime to clinical negligence claims worth up to £25,000 remains in progress, with time earmarked for further discussion at the March meeting. See News Analysis: Minutes of the CPR Committee meeting—2 February 2024. CPRC publishes details of annual open meeting on 10 May...
In this issue: Financial sanctions AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing Other financial crime Data protection Other Practice Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Latest Q& As Financial sanctions Reflecting on the key developments for sanctions lawyers in 2023 and predicting what 2024 might hold Diana Czugler, a senior associate at Peters & Peters, outlines the principal takeaways from 2023 for sanctions practitioners and organisations aiming to meet sanctions obligations, and weighs likely sanctions trends for 2024. See News Analysis: Reflecting on the key developments for sanctions lawyers in 2023 and predicting what 2024 might hold. The good, the bad and the new of the UK sanctions regime Law360: Nearly six years have elapsed since the UK Sanctions and Money Laundering Act came into force, and two years since...
In this issue: Business tenancies Neighbour disputes Enforcing security and property insolvency Residential tenancies Key developments and horizon scanning Disputes and remedies Property Disputes in Scotland Lex Talk®Property Disputes: a Lexis®Nexis community Additional Property disputes updates Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers Latest Q& As Business tenancies Occupation of a flat for business purposes through a manager ( Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea v Mellcraft Ltd) In Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea v Mellcraft Ltd [2024] All ER ( D) 53 ( Mar), [2024] EWHC 539 ( Ch), the Chancery Division dismissed the appellant’s appeal from a judge’s order addressing two preliminary questions. The court held, first, that as at the expiry of the contractual term of the respondent’s lease, the respondent was in...
In this issue: Sustainable finance and ESG round–up Aviation finance Sustainable finance Debt capital markets Derivatives Fintech Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Useful information Sustainable finance and ESG round–up Sustainable finance and ESG weekly round–up For this week’s highlights in Sustainable finance and ESG, see: Sustainable finance and ESG weekly round–up—14 March 2024. Aviation finance More insurers sued for US$44m over plane stranded in Russia. An Irish aircraft operator has widened its claim by adding 24 reinsurers, seeking to recover US$44m for the loss of an aircraft leased to a Russian carrier and retained there following the invasion of Ukraine. For more information, see News Analysis: More insurers sued for US$44m over plane stranded in Russia. Sustainable finance FCA's new greenwashing rules lack clarity, city firms warn. City firms are urging the Financial Conduct Authority to refine the draft...
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