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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 Sole traders, informal partnerships and outdated partnership deeds are common.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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Risk & Compliance weekly highlights—13 November 2025 In this issue: Data protection Sanctions AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing Other financial crime Other Risk & Compliance updates this week Trackers New and updated content Data protection EDPB adopts opinion on Commission draft adequacy decision for Brazil The European Data Protection Board ( EDPB) has issued an opinion on the European Commission’s draft adequacy decision concerning the level of protection for personal data in Brazil. Requested by the Commission, the opinion evaluates whether Brazil’s data protection regime, and the rules governing public authorities’ access to personal data transferred from the EU, provide safeguards equivalent to those required under EU law. The EDPB highlights the close alignment between Brazil’s framework and EU legislation, together with relevant case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union. Nonetheless, it calls on the Commission to offer additional clarifications and to oversee specific areas, including Data...
In this issue: Surplus Pensions dashboards Collective defined contribution Public sector pensions State pension Dates for your diary Trackers Surplus WPC seeks DWP clarity on independent arbiter role in pension surplus disputes The Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP) has been pressed on whether it will establish an independent, formal arbitration mechanism to manage future clashes between employers and trustees over entitlement to an estimated £160bn of surplus within defined benefit ( DB) pension schemes. In a letter released on 5 November 2025, the Parliamentary Work and Pensions Committee ( WPC) wrote to the Minister for Pensions, Torsten Bell, to ask if the DWP has explored a clear route for settling disputes arising from its surplus extraction proposals. The government’s Pension Schemes Bill sets out plans for new legislation enabling employers to draw on surplus pension assets where scheme funds are...
In this issue: Copyright & associated rights Trade marks/passing off Patents Confidential Information General IP Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Copyright & associated rights Copyright through the lens of AI generated photos ( Getty Images v Stability AI) This commentary summarises the principal copyright ramifications emerging from the first English judgment on generative AI, Getty Images ( US) Inc v Stability AI [2025] EWHC 2863 ( Ch). The decision was long anticipated by the creative and technology sectors, and by the government, which has so far not resolved the tension created by AI developers’ use of copyright works. Although neither side secured an unequivocal win, the ruling has reignited debate about secondary copyright infringement in the digital era. The judgment...
In this issue: Brexit headlines Brexit SIs Post- Brexit transition guidance Constitutional and administrative law Equality and human rights Judicial review Information law State security and intelligence Other public law news Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Free webinars Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Brexit headlines Cabinet Office publishes 1st Windsor Framework independent monitoring report The Cabinet Office has issued the Windsor Framework Independent Monitoring Panel’s inaugural report, addressing the UK Internal Market Guarantee for 1 January to 30 June 2025. Created under the Safeguarding the Union Command Paper, the panel verified that the guarantee was achieved: 96% of freight movements from Great Britain to Northern Ireland were deemed ‘not at risk’ and remained within the UK internal market, surpassing the 80% benchmark. Using HMRC data and...
In this issue: Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Confidential information Contracts International Sale and supply of goods Supply of services Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Advertising, marketing and sponsorship ASA rulings—12 November 2025 A single complaint reached the Advertising Standards Authority ( ASA) regarding a TV and You Tube advert by Select Specs Ltd promoting its prescription spectacles range. The ASA upheld all three matters it examined. See: LNB News 12/11/2025 10. ICC publishes fifth edition of Environmental Marketing Communications Framework The International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC) has issued the fifth edition of its Framework for Responsible Environmental Marketing Communications, setting global self-regulatory benchmarks for environmental marketing claims. See: LNB News 07/11/2025 36. Confidential information Company Director held personally liable for misuse of confidential information ( Kieran Corrigan v One E Group &...
Haytop Country Park Ltd v Amber Valley Borough Council [2025] EWCA Civ 1442 What are the practical implications of this case? The ruling underlines that site licensing is to be undertaken on the basis that it dovetails with the planning system. Licence conditions cannot expand, override, or undermine the limits of extant planning permissions, nor the results of planning enforcement; together, these create the ‘planning baseline’ which the licensing authority is both entitled and obliged to factor in. Where an enforcement notice has conclusively found that operational works (for example, hardstandings or terraces) are unlawful and must be taken up, a site licence ought not to sanction plots reliant upon, or effectively reinstating, those works. An operator wishing to move away from the planning baseline must pursue a new application under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ( TCPA 1990), rather than seeking to rely on...
In this issue: New technologies Internet Data protection Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Telecommunications 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 The European Commission has issued a reporting template for serious incidents involving general‑purpose AI ( GPAI) models that present systemic risks under the EU AI Act. It is designed to promote consistent, transparent reporting and to help providers evidence compliance with Commitment 9 of the GPAI Code of Practice. Pursuant to Article 55 of the EU AI Act, providers must submit pertinent details on serious incidents to the AI Office and, where suitable, to national competent authorities. The GPAI Code of Practice further puts this duty into effect by specifying the information that reports must contain to...
In this issue: UK, EU and international regulators and bodies Prudential requirements Operational resilience Financial crime and sanctions Complaints, compensation and claims management Investigations, enforcement and discipline Regulation of derivatives Sustainable finance and ESG Banks and mutuals UK Mi FID II Consumer credit, mortgage and home finance Regulation of insurance Payment services and systems Fintech and cryptoassets Dates for your diary Financial Services Enforcement Database New and updated content Daily and weekly news alerts Intraday news alerts Lex Talk®Financial Services: a Lexis®Nexis community UK, EU and international regulators and bodies FSCS confirms unchanged levy for 2025/26 and provides early forecast for 2026/27 The Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS) has issued its latest Outlook levy update for 2025/26, stating the levy will hold at £356m—as...
The Equality and Human Rights Commission ( EHRC) confirmed it has prolonged the legal arrangement that Mc Donald’s initially entered into in February 2023 (see: Mc Donald’s enters into section 23 agreement to protect staff from sexual harassment, LNB News 10/02/2023 11), alongside a ‘strengthened action plan’ aimed at ensuring the business ‘effectively prevents sexual harassment’. Under the revised plan, Mc Donald’s is required to conduct routine restaurant inspections, enhance its risk assessments and carry out quarterly staff surveys. Allegations involving managers must be examined away from its restaurants, and Mc Donald’s must commission external specialists to devise a safeguarding plan to implement across all locations. The continuation of monitoring suggests worries about the company’s response to workplace sexual harassment are graver than initially thought overall......
Consumer group Which Which reported that insurers offering buildings-only policies approved only 63.2% of claims on average. Exercising its legal powers, the group lodged a ‘super-complaint’ with the FCA in September 2025, highlighting systemic failings across home and travel insurance. The regulator has not yet issued a formal reply. Rocio Concha, Which’s director of policy and advocacy, said that with sector-wide claim acceptance rates stubbornly low, many policyholders face gruelling battles with their insurer that can feel more traumatic than the incident that triggered the claim. She added that the watchdog must now clamp down on firms that are letting customers down, and make it plain that weak performance will not be accepted any......
Original news Source: House of Commons debate: Pensions Volume 775: debated on Tuesday 11 November 2025 News summary On 11 November 2025, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Pat Mc Fadden, told Parliament that the government will revisit its December 2024 ruling on the Women Against State Pension Inequality ( WASPI) matter, after fresh evidence surfaced in the current High Court legal proceedings — a 2007 DWP report reviewing the effectiveness of automatic pension forecast letters. He explained that this material had not been available to the former minister, Liz Kendall, and that, in the interests of fairness and transparency, the decision on how changes to the State Pension age were communicated will now be taken again, concerning the way such State Pension age changes were notified. The Secretary of State......
In this issue: Arbitration in England & Wales International arbitration Institutional and ad hoc arbitration Other arbitration and ADR-related news and developments Daily and weekly news alerts Useful information Arbitration in England & Wales Commercial Court rules assignment of award ineffective for ICSID arbitration award In Operafund Eco- Invest v The Kingdom of Spain, the Commercial Court refused an application by the claimants together with Blasket Renewable Investments LLC to substitute Blasket for the claimants in proceedings aimed at registering an arbitration award made in the claimants’ favour against Spain under the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States 1965 ( ICSID Convention). The court determined that ICSID Convention arbitration awards are not capable of assignment, as a matter of interpretation of the ICSID Convention read alongside the Energy Charter Treaty 1994. The court further rejected the claimants’ case that Spain was estopped from...
In this issue: Sanctions AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing Regulation of legal services Data protection Other Practice Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Sanctions FCDO announces closure of OFSI sanctions list in favour of single UK system The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office ( FCDO) confirms that the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation ( OFSI), within HM Treasury, will stop issuing its Consolidated List of Asset Freeze Targets on 28 January 2026. From then, the UK Sanctions List will serve as the only official source for UK sanctions designations. See: LNB News 07/11/2025 16. FCDO updates guidance on Democratic People's Republic of Korea sanctions regulations The FCDO has revised its guidance on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( Sanctions) ( EU Exit) Regulations 2019, SI 2019/411, to align with changes to the...
In this issue: Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Sponsored work Family routes Long residence, discretion and human rights Challenging immigration decisions and enforcement Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments Future developments— Immigration calendar Our Immigration calendar highlights forthcoming developments for business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works UKICE analysis warns of fiscal risks from declining migration Lauren Gilbert, writing for UK in a Changing Europe ( UKICE), cautions that the sharp fall in net migration may dent the UK’s economy and public finances. She argues migrants are typically net contributors, with higher average pay and stronger labour market participation than UK-born people. Drawing on Home Office pay data for 2023–2024, Gilbert reports that those arriving between 2019 and 2023 on...
In this issue: Anti-dumping Safeguards Free trade agreements Customs Lex Talk®TMT: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Anti-dumping EU dumping duties on Chinese trichloroisocyanuric acid remain in place. MLex notes the European Commission stated on Wednesday that EU imports of trichloroisocyanuric acid from China will continue to attract punitive anti-dumping levies for a further five years. The rates, which peak at 78.97%, stem from a partial interim review launched in 2024 following a request by Ercros and Electroquímica de Hernani. See: EU dumping duties on Chinese trichloroisocyanuric acid remain in place. The EU has revised the anti-dumping duties on Chinese trichloroisocyanuric acid after that interim review, as reflected in the Official Journal. Commission Implementing Regulation ( EU) 2025/2216 of 4 November 2025, amending Implementing Regulation ( EU) 2023/2757 imposing a...
In this issue: Sustainable finance and ESG round-up Lending Security Guarantees Shipping finance Sustainable finance Real estate finance Debt capital markets Derivatives Technology in banking transactions Sanctions Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Useful information Sustainable finance and ESG round-up Sustainable finance and ESG monthly round-up—7 November 2025 This month’s Finance Group update highlights: (1) the Loan Market Association’s guidance on transition loans to support a climate finance framework; (2) the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and European financial industry bodies backing the European Commission’s move to streamline the taxonomy; and (3) the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative’s refreshed guidance for banks on setting climate targets. For full details, see News Analysis: Sustainable finance and ESG monthly round–up—7 November 2025. Lending Winding-up petition dismissed due to genuine and substantial dispute ( Abcor Finance Securities Ltd v Binomia Ltd) The High Court refused a winding-up petition because the alleged debt was subject to a real and material dispute. The...
In this issue: Key developments and horizon scanning Transferring property Residential property Property management Property development Easements, rights and covenants Environment, energy and buildings Statutory compliance 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 Challenge to Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 fails In R ( ARC Time Freehold Income Authorised Fund and others) v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government ( The Speaker of The House of Commons) [2025] EWHC 2751 ( Admin), the High Court held that three key leasehold reforms in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 ( LFRA 2024) are consistent with property rights under Article 1 of the First Protocol ( A1P1). The measures introduce a cap on ground rent for enfranchisement valuation, remove marriage value from enfranchisement premiums, and bar landlords from recovering non-litigation costs in...
In this issue: Criminal liability Criminal procedure and evidence Sentencing Bribery, corruption, sanctions and export controls Consumer protection and cartels Cybercrime and data protection offences Financial services and pensions offences Environmental offences Health and safety and corporate manslaughter offences Local authority prosecutions Money laundering Corporate Crime in Scotland Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Criminal liability Record number of modern slavery cases reported in the UK Between July and September 2025, the Home Office recorded an unprecedented 6,414 suspected modern slavery victims—the largest quarterly figure since the National Referral Mechanism ( NRM) launched in 2009. Alasdair Hobbs, an employment partner at Excello Law, said these numbers should be a wake-up call for employers. See News Analysis: Record number of modern...
In this issue: COP30 Air emissions and climate change Energy for environmental lawyers Hazardous substances and chemicals ESG and sustainability Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Waste producer responsibility regimes Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content COP30 Council of EU approves updated NDC ahead of COP30 The Council of the EU has endorsed a refreshed nationally determined contribution ( NDC) on behalf of the EU and its Member States, to be lodged with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC) in advance of COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Spanning to 2035, this revision builds upon the EU’s 2020 filing and its 2023 revision. It restates the current aim of cutting net greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 relative to 1990. It further notes the Council’s backing for a 90% net cut by 2040 and...
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