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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 Sole traders, informal partnerships and outdated partnership deeds are common.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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In this issue: Key developments and horizon scanning Transferring property Property insolvency Property management Residential property Property development Property in Wales Property taxes Property in Scotland Additional property updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers New Q& A Key developments and horizon scanning Budget 2025—key property announcements In her Budget 2025 statement, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, set out an annual ‘ High Value Council Tax Surcharge’ ( HVCTS) for owners of residential homes in England valued above £2m. The levy will be £2,500 a year, increasing to £7,500 for properties exceeding £5m, commencing in 2028–29. Local authorities will handle collection alongside council tax on behalf of central government, with proceeds channelled to support funding for local government services; further detail will follow at the next...
In this issue: Budget 2025 Lending Security Sustainable finance Debt capital markets Derivatives Structured products and securitisation Claims and remedies Daily and weekly news alerts Useful information Budget 2025 Budget 2025—key Banking & Finance announcements In the Budget 2025 on 26 November 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, outlined measures of interest to banking and finance lawyers, including the government’s emphasis on economic stability, an updated Green Financing Framework, plans for the British Business Bank, and UK listing relief. For further detail, see: Budget 2025—key Banking & Finance announcements— LNB News 26/11/2025 67. Sources: Budget 2025 and Supporting documents for Budget 2025. Lending LMA responds to FCA consultation on fund tokenisation implications for loan markets The Loan Market Association ( LMA) has filed its response to the Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA)...
In this edition: Budgets and Finance Bills Corporation tax and companies International Topical issues Employment taxation Real estate tax Daily and weekly news briefings Updated and new content Dates for your diary Trackers Helpful information Budgets and Finance Bills Budget 2025 On Wednesday 26 November 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, presented the Budget......
In this issue: EU fundamentals Banking and finance Competition and state aid Data protection and cybersecurity Dispute resolution Financial services Energy Environment IP Life sciences Regulatory TMT Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Trackers EU fundamentals Council and Parliament adopt EU budget for 2026 The Council of the EU together with the European Parliament have now approved the EU’s 2026 budget. Commitments are fixed at €192.8bn, while payments come to €190.1bn. A reserve of €715.7m remains below the spending ceilings of the current multiannual financial framework ( MFF), enabling the EU to react to unexpected events. This marks the sixth yearly budget within the 2021–27 MFF. See: LNB News 24/11/2025 32 and LNB News 26/11/2025 42. European Commission releases November 2025 infringement package The Commission has issued the November 2025 infringement package, outlining the EU Member States it is pursuing for failing to fulfil their obligations under EU law......
In this issue: COP30 Key developments and materials Air emissions and climate change Contamination and pollution Energy efficiency and buildings Energy efficiency of products Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental enforcement and prosecutions Environmental information Environmental permits and consents ESG and sustainability Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Water, flooding and drainage Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content COP30 COP30’s Global ‘ Collective Effort’— Fragments of progress Environment analysis: By the Saturday morning after the 30th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ( COP30) in Brazil should have wrapped up, the parties finally struck an accord. It is to be called the ‘ Global Mutirão: Uniting humanity in a global mobilisation against climate change’. ‘ Global Mutirão’, taken from the Tupi- Guarani tongue,...
In this issue Budget DESNZ releases response on EV charging infrastructure and planning Planning applications and decisions Planning policy Nationally significant infrastructure projects Buildings and Building Regulations Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Related Documents Budget Budget 2025—key planning announcements The Autumn Budget 2025, presented on 26 November 2025, reiterates the government’s mission to ‘rebuild Britain’, clearly prioritising significantly higher housing output, faster planning reform and sustained economic expansion. Core pledges cover the delivery of 1.5 million homes in England funded through major programmes including the £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme, the £16bn National Housing Bank and fresh devolved housing pots, together with detailed proposals for at least three new towns at Tempsford, Leeds South Bank and Crews Hill & Chase Park. The upcoming Planning and...
In this issue: Key DR developments Claims and remedies Costs and funding Cross-border disputes Injunctions Pre-action and limitation Litigation Evidence and disclosure Civil appeals Scottish Dispute Resolution International Guidance New content Dates for your diary Useful information Daily and weekly news alerts Key DR developments Online Procedure Rule Committee minutes Record of the OPRC meeting—20 October 2025: Notes from the Online Procedure Rule Committee ( OPRC) session on 20 October 2025—held in a hybrid format at the Royal Courts of Justice and by video link—set out progress since the Committee’s inaugural public consultation on the digital justice system, consideration of draft possession provisions, and a report on its first open meeting. For more detail, refer to News Analysis: Minutes of the OPR Committee meeting—20 October 2025......
In this issue: Budget 2025 Cross border criminal investigations Decision to prosecute and alternatives to prosecution Criminal procedure and evidence Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Environmental offences Food safety and hygiene offences Fraud, forgery, tax and theft offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Money laundering International Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Budget 2025 Budget 2025—key criminal justice announcements On 26 November 2025, during Budget 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, set out a suite of reforms notably affecting policing, enforcement, economic crime, regulatory regimes, sentencing, the prison estate and national security. See: LNB News 26/11/2025 53. Cross border criminal...
In this issue: Budget and Finance Bills Spouses, civil partners and cohabitants UK taxes for Private Client HMRC Manuals updates Charity and philanthropy Contentious trusts and estates International Question of the week Additional Private Client updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Lex Talk® Private Client: a Lexis+® community New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Budget and Finance Bills Budget 2025 The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, presented the government’s 2025 Budget on Wednesday, 26 November 2025. For insight into consultations and statements affecting Private Client practitioners, see News Analysis: Budget 2025— Private Client analysis. For coverage of corporate tax matters, see News Analysis: Budget 2025— Tax analysis. A significant number of tax measures are intended to be enacted via Finance Bill 2025–26 ( FB...
In this issue: Key developments and horizon scanning Residential tenancies Trespass and adverse possession Service charges Enforcing security and property insolvency Disputes and remedies 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 Budget 2025 RICS submits Budget 2025 recommendations The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ( RICS) has sent HM Treasury its pre‑ Budget advice, urging reform of business rates, greater powers for local authorities, faster progress towards green investment objectives and a better functioning planning regime. RICS also highlighted worries about mooted plans for an 8% National Insurance levy on landlords’ rental profits, pointing to commissioned findings indicating 62% of landlords would increase rents as a result and 40% would scale back property upgrades. See: LNB News 26/11/2025 36. Key Property announcements In Budget 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP,...
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Sponsored work Business, investment and non-sponsored work Family routes Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement International Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Latest Q& A Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Note that our Immigration calendar sets out key forthcoming developments relevant to business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works Government consultation on earned settlement reforms The UK Government has launched a consultation on wide-ranging proposals to reshape the rules for settlement in the UK, replacing them with an ‘earned settlement’ approach. The standard five-year route would be withdrawn, with substantive revisions to eligibility criteria, the qualifying period, and the terms under which migrants could secure indefinite leave to remain. This preliminary overview highlights the principal planned changes. See News...
In this edition: Institutional and ad hoc arbitration International Arbitration Further arbitration and ADR-related news and developments News alerts issued daily and weekly Updated and new content Useful information Institutional and ad hoc arbitration AAA— AI-led arbitration rules for two-party disputes introduced The American Arbitration Association ( AAA) has unveiled AI‑ Led Arbitration Rules, creating a hybrid approach where an AI arbitrator issues preliminary determinations that human arbitrators review and finalise. These rules cover two‑party disputes managed via AAA’s Digital Dispute Resolution Centre platform, with filing fees of US$2,500 per claim or counterclaim and a ten business‑day timetable per stage. See: LNB News 24/11/2025 47. SIAC— Mo U with Chongqing Arbitration Commission signed The Singapore International Arbitration Centre ( SIAC) and the Chongqing Arbitration Commission ( CQAC) have entered into a Memorandum of...
On 10 November 2025, the ECB revealed it had levied periodic penalty payments totalling €187,650 on ABANCA, a credit institution headquartered in Spain. The sanction arose from ABANCA’s non-compliance with a requirement in an ECB decision directed to ABANCA on 1 December 2023. That decision obliged ABANCA to carry out, by a defined deadline, a materiality assessment of its climate-related and environmental ( C& E) risks. As part of this assessment, ABANCA had to strengthen how it identifies the material C& E risks to which it is, or could be, exposed. ABANCA did not properly perform the materiality assessment in the manner specifically required by the ECB decision for a period of 65 days as set out in the decision......
In this issue: WTO Trade in goods Anti-dumping Lex Talk®TMT: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts WTO WTO Dispute Settlement Body adopts compliance panel report and receives EU appeal notification The World Trade Organisation ( WTO) Dispute Settlement Body ( DSB) has endorsed a compliance panel report in DS591 on Colombia’s anti-dumping measures applied to frozen chips from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, following its 24 November 2025 session. On 23 October 2025, the panel determined that Colombia had not completely implemented an earlier panel decision and an arbitrators’ award delivered under the Multi- Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement. The EU confirmed it would appeal the panel’s findings in DS616 concerning duties on steel imports from Indonesia, which led to the removal of two items from the DSB’s agenda: adoption of the DS616 report and the EU’s bid for...
In this issue: Trade marks/passing off Patents Copyright & associated rights Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Trade marks/passing off Trade marks through the lens of AI-generated photos ( Getty Images v Stability AI) This News Analysis sets out the principal trade mark ramifications of Getty Images ( US) Inc v Stability AI [2025] EWHC 2863 ( Ch), the first English ruling on generative AI, which concludes (pending any appeal) a three-year dispute between Getty Images ( Getty Images) and Stability AI ( Stability). Although much commentary focused on the copyright limb, the trade mark causes of action posed fresh issues concerning machine-generated watermarks bearing signs identical to, or reminiscent of, the claimant’s trade marks, and how responsibility is apportioned between the defendant (developer of a generative AI system) and end users. Both the copyright and trade mark outcomes turn closely on the facts....
In this issue: UK competition policy EU mergers EU competition policy EU State aid Daily and weekly news alerts Caselex UK competition policy CMA publishes its Strategy for 2026–2029 The CMA has set out its Strategy for 2026–2029, explaining how it will advance competition and safeguard consumers to drive economic growth and strengthen household prosperity. The plan commits to embedding the 4Ps (pace, predictability, proportionality and process) across all activity, while evolving operations to maximise agility, productivity and overall impact. Promoting effective competition, including rolling out the UK’s new digital markets regime and enabling pro‑growth collaboration between businesses Championing consumers through enhanced enforcement powers to secure fair outcomes and bolster household confidence Helping government deploy pro‑competition measures that support growth, innovation and investment‑related policies Fostering a UK regulatory environment that attracts investment and instils business...
Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA) supervision prioritises firms satisfying regulatory obligations under its Consumer Duty, incorporating firms' overarching responsibility and overall accountability......
European Union Dual regulatory framework The MDR and IVDR set out requirements addressing risks linked to medical device software; yet they do not expressly cover risks unique to AI systems. The AIA complements the MDR/ IVDR by introducing obligations that target hazards and risks to health, safety, and fundamental rights that are specific to AI. This combined application obliges manufacturers to achieve compliance with both frameworks concurrently. Manufacturers of MDAI may choose, where appropriate, to incorporate the necessary testing and reporting activities, as well as the information and documentation required for their MDAI, into the documentation and procedures already established under the MDR/ IVDR. In practice, alongside the MDR/ IVDR and the AIA, numerous other EU regulations will often apply to these devices. With this in mind, streamlining and aligning the various processes is of paramount...
In this issue: Budget 2025 Equity capital markets Economic crime and corporate transparency Corporate governance Directors General meetings Members Private M& A Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Budget 2025 Budget 2025— Tax analysis Tax analysis: An overview of the principal business tax measures unveiled in the Budget on 26 November 2025. Expert commentary is provided by Addleshaw Goddard, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, A& O Shearman, Andersen, Ashurst, Blick Rothenberg, Boodle Hatfield, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Burges Salmon, CMS Cameron Mc Kenna Nabarro Olswang, Eversheds Sutherland, Fieldfisher, Lawrence Stephens, Macfarlanes, Pinsent Masons, Proskauer, Shoosmiths, Stephenson Harwood, Temple Tax Chambers and Travers Smith. See News Analysis: Budget 2025— Tax analysis Budget 2025— UK Listing Relief from stamp duty In the 26 November 2025 Budget, the...
The Court of Appeal held that the four children of Fahad Al- Rajaan, the former director of the Public Institution For Social Security ( PIFSS), were properly added as parties so that the authority can attempt to reclaim proceeds said to derive from the alleged scheme from Al- Rajaan’s heirs if it ultimately succeeds in its case. Delivering the written judgment of a three-judge panel, Justice Richard Arnold said the High Court was right to conclude that PIFSS had a good arguable case that the children would be necessary and proper parties to any enforcement action. He said: ‘ Since it would be appropriate to join the Al- Rajaan children as defendants were they present within the jurisdiction, in order for the question of Mr Al- Rajaan’s liability to be determined as between PIFSS and the Al- Rajaan children, it follows that they are...
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