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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 Sole traders, informal partnerships and outdated partnership deeds are common.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: Criminal procedure and evidence Proceeds of crime Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Consumer protection and cartels Cybercrime and data protection offences Environmental offences Financial services and pensions offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Money laundering Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Criminal procedure and evidence Law Commission proposes updated framework to modernise contempt of court laws The Law Commission has set out proposals for an updated regime on contempt of court, designed to tackle issues arising from online interaction and digital platforms. It would establish four separate forms of contempt, doing away with the current civil/criminal split. The model aims to clarify the rules governing behaviour in court during trials, compliance with court orders, and...
In this issue: Planning applications and decisions Planning conditions, obligations and CIL Nationally significant infrastructure projects Buildings and building regulations Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Related Documents Planning applications and decisions Consultation on reform to the planning statutory consultee system The government has opened a consultation on changes to England’s statutory consultee regime. It suggests removing Sport England, the Gardens Trust and the Theatres Trust from the statutory consultee list; adjusting or sharpening consultation thresholds for key national bodies, widening use of standing advice, and introducing a new performance framework with a possible funding surcharge. The goal is to make consultee input more proportionate, prompt and focused on enabling sustainable development, while keeping suitable safeguards. See News Analysis: Consultation on reform to the planning statutory consultee system. Policy to fast-track...
In this issue: Key R& I law developments Corporate insolvency processes Directors and insolvency Insolvency litigation Financial institutions Employees and insolvency International restructuring and insolvency Key dates for restructuring and insolvency professionals Daily and weekly news alerts New content Key R& I law developments Insolvency Practitioners ( Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations ( Northern Ireland) 2025, SR 2025/177: This instrument revises the Insolvency Practitioners Regulations ( Northern Ireland) 2006 ( SR 2006/33), creating an obligation to pay interest on losses resulting from, or enabled by, an insolvency practitioner’s fraud or dishonesty. The interest must be set above the Sterling Overnight Index Average ( SONIA), among other changes. The provisions take effect on 9 December 2025. See: LNB News 17/11/2025 2. Insolvency Service publishes monthly insolvency statistics for October 2025 The Insolvency Service has issued October 2025 monthly...
The representative body for around 18,000 legal practitioners said it is turning to the Court of Appeal's discretion to allow an appeal to be pursued by an individual affected by the decision, despite the fact the organisation was not involved in the original case. ‘ We consider that the questions, ambiguities and practical consequences arising from the ruling must be thoroughly explored via this appeal,’ said the CILEX chief executive, Jennifer Coupland. In September, Judge Clive Sheldon determined in the High Court that non-qualified staff working within law firms are prohibited from conducting litigation, even where they act under the oversight of a qualified solicitor......
In this issue: Highlights and materials Regulation and licensing of electricity and gas markets Networks and grid connections Renewables Conventional generation, energy-from-waste, biomass, and CHP schemes Planning considerations for energy projects Energy litigation and disputes Air pollution, efficiency, and climate change Global energy Fresh and revised content Diary dates Trackers Energy resources on Lexis+® Daily and weekly news briefings Key developments and materials Industry and Regulators Committee launches inquiry into regulators and economic growth The House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has opened an inquiry into how UK regulators interact with economic growth, reflecting the government’s aim for bodies such as Ofgem, Ofwat and Ofcom to bolster investment, encourage innovation and raise productivity across the economy. This examination follows the 2024 decision to extend the statutory ‘ Growth Duty’ in the...
House of Lords debate: Hansard 17 November 2025: Employment Rights Bill Peers voted 309 to 150 in favour of an amendment that would give employees unfair dismissal protection after six months, instead of permitting tribunal claims from a worker’s first day in post, thereby rejecting MPs’ version of the Bill once more. Andrew Sharpe, a Conservative peer and persistent opponent of the measure, again raised the prospect that jobs could evaporate if firms conclude that taking on staff is too risky. He stated that everyone with any grasp of wealth creation, private‑sector recruitment and employment law believes the Bill will result in higher unemployment. Sharpe also said the statute should place its emphasis on helping people who wish to re‑enter the workforce, as he has argued previously......
In recent weeks there has been a surge of activity before both the Unified Patent Court ( UPC) and the national courts in the UK and Germany, arising from a dispute between Inter Digital and Amazon concerning digital streaming patents and FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) licence terms. For simplicity, this piece uses the label ‘ FRAND’, although the standards at issue technically refer to ‘ RAND’ (reasonable and non-discriminatory); in practice there is no distinction between them. At the close of September, the UPC’s Mannheim Local Division, alongside the German Munich Regional Court, granted Inter Digital, on a without notice basis, the first ‘anti-interim-licence’ injunction. That order triggered further steps in the English Patents Court, where Mr Justice Meade voiced serious reservations about the submissions advanced by Inter Digital to obtain the injunction, and later, in a further hearing (also on a...
In this issue: Key PI and Clinical negligence developments Coroner's inquests Cross-border service—principles Scottish claims Lexis Nexis® PI & Clinical Negligence Quantum Database Lexis Nexis® Quantum Portal 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 Claims Portal issues simplified user guide to strengthen information security Claims Portal Ltd has published a Simplified User Guide to support organisations and users in navigating the Claims Portal safely and effectively. Intended as a concise point of reference, it prioritises information security, the safeguarding of organisational and client data, and adherence to the current User Agreement. Claims Portal has requested that this guide is distributed to all Portal users within each organisation to foster consistent and secure use of the platform. See: LNB News...
In this issue: Budget and Finance Bills VAT Anti-avoidance Taxes management and litigation Pensions tax International Key developments Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Latest Q& A Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Budget and Finance Bills Autumn Budget 2025 Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to present the Budget on Wednesday 26 November 2025. As ever, we will produce overnight analysis of the principal business tax measures, to be published on the morning of Thursday 27 November 2025... Law Society joins professional services leaders opposing LLP tax proposals The Law Society of England and Wales has teamed up with figures from the wider professional services community to write to Chancellor Rachel Reeves, challenging plans to raise taxes on limited liability partnerships ( LLPs). Their joint...
In this issue: Probate Court of Protection Spouses, civil partners and cohabitants UK taxes for Private Client Tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance HMRC Manuals updates Tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance Budget and Finance Bills Family businesses and ownership structures Charity and philanthropy Contentious trusts and estates Pensions, insurance and tax efficient investments 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 Latest Q& As Useful information Probate Fee changes for grant applications With the Court and Public Guardian Fees ( Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2025 ( SI 2025/1126) in force from 17 November 2025, copy grants of...
In this issue: Arbitration in England & Wales International arbitration Institutional and ad hoc arbitration Daily and weekly news alerts Useful information Arbitration in England & Wales Stay of proceedings under AA 1996, s 9 where existence of arbitration agreement is disputed The King’s Bench Division dismissed three applications by the claimants ( Orange Transgroup Ltd and IT Way) while granting interim stays in favour of the defendant, Shein Distribution UK Limited. The principal issues were whether the defendant had submitted to the High Court’s jurisdiction by not filing a Part 11 application, whether an arbitration agreement existed between Orange and Shein, and which tribunal should decide that issue. The court held a Part 11 application was unnecessary, as the defendant had duly applied for a stay under section 9 of the Arbitration Act 1996 following CPR Part 62. It further determined that the question of Bill’s...
In this issue: Pension Protection Fund Scheme governance Surplus Pensions benefits Dates for your diary Trackers Pension Protection Fund PPF consults on 2026/27 levy proposing zero conventional levy and ACS changes The Pension Protection Fund ( PPF) has opened a consultation on its proposed approach to the 2026/27 PPF levy. Subject to the levy measures within the Pension Schemes Bill, it plans to set a zero levy for conventional schemes, while continuing to levy Alternative Covenant Schemes ( ACSs), with refinements and a broader review of the ACS levy methodology to reflect market developments. The PPF believes its reserves and projected future growth are adequate to support a zero levy, but it will keep funding conditions under review and retains the ability to reintroduce a levy if required. Alongside the consultation, the PPF has issued draft proposed changes to the...
In this issue: Horizon scanning Tax Prohibited behaviour (discrimination, etc) Diversity and the gender pay gap Maternity, parents and carers Whistleblowing Health and safety Hybrid working Data protection and employee information Employment Tribunals Europe— EU Industrial Relations Law Reports ( IRLR)— December 2025 Dates for your diary Trackers New Q& As Employment resources on Lexis+® Lex Talk®Employment: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Horizon scanning Lords veto day-one unfair dismissal rights for third time. On 17 November 2025, the House of Lords backed changes to the Employment Rights Bill to scrap day-one unfair dismissal protections, derailing the government’s headline policy for a third time amid ongoing legislative ping-pong. Peers passed the amendment by 309 to 150, meaning workers gain unfair dismissal rights after six months rather than from...
Justice Finola O' Farrell found BHP legally liable on 14 November 2025 for the collapse in 2015 of the Fundão Dam at an iron ore joint venture with Vale SA In a High Court ruling, BHP was held responsible for the 2015 failure of the Fundão Dam at Samarco, its 50% iron ore joint venture with Brazilian company Vale. The court concluded the risk of collapse was foreseeable, and that BHP’s liability stemmed from the extent of its involvement in Samarco, which owned and operated the dam. Justice O’ Farrell found BHP ‘controlled and operated’ Samarco, acted as a ‘directing mind’, and secured substantial commercial benefits. She determined BHP had ‘assumed responsibility’ for risk assessment, mitigation and dam safety. James Peel, a commercial litigation lawyer at Weightmans LLP, observed that the judgment shows English courts are increasingly ready to look beyond formal corporate...
In this issue: Education Social care Public procurement Planning Governance Children's social care Pensions Social housing Healthcare Licensing Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Education Supreme Court holds that statutory religious education and collective worship in Northern Ireland school breached human rights ( JR87 and another for Judicial Review ( Appellant)) In In the matter of an application by JR87 and another for Judicial Review ( Appellant), the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the appeal advanced by a schoolgirl, JR87, together with her father, against the Department of Education ( Northern Ireland). The court determined that delivering religious education and conducting collective worship in Northern Ireland’s controlled schools, as required by the current statutory scheme, violated their rights under Article 2 of Protocol 1 ( A2P1) to the European Convention on Human Rights, when read in conjunction with Article 9 ECHR. Victoria Dennis, Educational Law Solicitor at Doyle Clayton, has offered...
In this issue: WTO Trade in goods Anti-dumping Safeguards Free trade agreements Customs Lex Talk®TMT: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts WTO WTO report highlights sharp rise in G20 tariffs amid efforts to facilitate trade The latest World Trade Organization ( WTO) review finds tariff coverage in G20 economies at record highs between mid- October 2024 and mid- October 2025. Imports worth US$2,599bn came under duties—more than four times the prior period. Counting exports, 185 measures touched trade of roughly US$2,900bn. Even with this protectionist upswing, G20 members also unveiled 184 trade‑facilitating steps spanning goods valued at US$2,055bn, almost double last year’s level. The report observes that most economies avoided retaliation, choosing dialogue and moves to ease barriers. See: LNB News 18/11/2025 44. Trade in goods China welcomes US pause on...
In this issue: UK private actions UK market studies EU antitrust EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation EU digital markets EU State aid Daily and weekly news alerts Caselex CAT issues judgment granting CPO in collective damages action brought against mobile network operators for an alleged abuse of dominance over ‘loyalty payments’ The CAT issued its judgment in Mr Justine Gutmann v Vodafone Limited and Vodafone Group Plc, Mr Justin Gutmann v EE Limited and BT Group PLC, Mr Justin Gutmann v Hutchison 3G UK Limited and Mr Justin Gutmann v Telefonica UK Limited, on four CPO applications. Under section 47B of the Competition Act 1998 ( CA 1998), applications were brought by Mr Justin Gutmann, as proposed class representative ( PCR), against Vodafone Limited and Vodafone Group PLC, EE Limited and BT Group PLC, Hutchison 3G UK Limited ( Three) and Telefonica UK Limited ( O2). Each mobile network operator ( MNO) is alleged to have...
In this issue: UK, EU and international regulators and bodies Beyond Brexit Permissions, approvals and oversight Operational resilience Financial crime and sanctions Consumer protection Complaints, redress and claims management Capital markets regulation Dispute resolution for financial services lawyers Sustainable finance and ESG Banks and mutuals Investment funds and asset management UK Mi FID II EU Mi FID II Insurance regulation Consumer credit, mortgages and home finance AI regulation in FS Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Financial Services Enforcement Database Lex Talk®Financial Services: a Lexis®Nexis community UK, EU and international regulators and bodies FSB sets priorities for 2026 work plan at Riyadh plenary The Financial Stability Board ( FSB) Plenary met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 18–19...
What is the statement/consultation about? The UK Government has issued a policy paper detailing a major redesign of the framework and route to settlement in the UK as a whole, stating that permanent residence will hinge on compliance, integration, and a demonstrable contribution to national life. The 60‑page paper, laid before Parliament on 20 November 2025, sets out a consultation on reforms that would shift the current settlement rules towards an ‘earned settlement’ approach and model. First trailed in the May 2025 Immigration White Paper, the consultation has been widely anticipated. The paper proposes notable changes to the eligibility criteria, qualifying period, and conditions under which migrants may obtain indefinite leave to remain. The consultation is open for twelve weeks and welcomes submissions and evidence from individuals and organisations. The reforms leave untouched grants of settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme, the...
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