Public Law

In this issue: Brexit headlines Judicial review Equality and human rights Constitutional and administrative law Subsidy control and State aid Information law Other Public Law news Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Brexit headlines Weekly digest of EU–UK TCA Specialised Committees’ publications-27 May 2026 This digest outlines the outputs published by the Specialised Committees created under the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) for the week 20–26 May 2026. See: LNB News 27/05/2026 8. Judicial review Residents opposing construction of the new Chinese embassy refused costs protection under CPR 46.24(2)(a) and the Aarhus Convention-R (Royal Mint Court Residents’ Association) v Secretary of State, MHCLG The High Court ruled that a challenge to national security mitigation tied to the proposed Chinese embassy did not attract Aarhus costs...

This round-up sets out information on publications issued by Specialised Committees created under the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) covering the period 20 May 2026 to 26 May 2026 inclusive. The following publications were issued by Specialised Committees under the TCA: Agendas the agenda for the third meeting of the Working Group on Motor Vehicles and Parts under the EU-UK TCA has been released, now available here Source: Trade Specialised Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade......

The UK Supreme Court confirmed that Lord Stephens of Creevyloughgare will stand down on 7 April 2027 as a Justice of the Supreme Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council......

Environmental law comprises the body of rules intended to protect the environment. It affects a local authority (LA) through the LA’s own compliance responsibilities and because LAs hold statutory roles for consenting, enforcement and remediation across diverse environmental law regimes. This Practice Note assists practitioners working in or with LAs by describing scenarios in which environmental law issues might arise, and by offering guidance and links to the relevant environmental law content. Waste What is the LA’s duty in relation to the collection of waste? Subject to certain limited exceptions, waste collection authorities (WCAs) in England and Wales have a statutory legal obligation to arrange for the collection of household waste and, where requested, commercial waste and industrial waste. Local authorities in England and Wales must also collect specified categories of waste, ensuring those types are collected separately as distinct streams. The...

This Practice Note compiles a consolidated set of key United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, Assimilated Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (UK GDPR)-compliant precedent terms, clauses, provisions, schedules and agreements, which can be tailored for commercial dealings and personal data sharing contexts. It also contains certain schedules intended for matters where both the UK GDPR and the General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (EU GDPR) apply, tackling both regimes within one contract by adopting the highest common denominator of the two compliance frameworks. It is structured as follows: controller to processor data processing arrangements controller to controller data sharing arrangements clauses for international transfers Consult the relevant document for details on when each is intended to be used. For a broad primer on data protection law that gathers key practical guidance, see: UK data protection law...

On receiving a request for information, the usual starting point is to decide whether the material sought is environmental information and, in turn, whether the request should be handled under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, SI 2004/3391 (EIR 2004) or the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FIA 2000). For more help on this first step, see Practice Note: Environmental Information Regulations 2004—what is environmental information? This Practice Note concentrates on the next actions a public authority ought to take once a request for environmental information arrives. The role of information officers and teams in public authorities Public authorities should make sure that their employees and contractors are informed about the duties imposed by the EIR 2004, so that they recognise the importance of information requests. For additional guidance, refer to paragraph 1 of the Code of Practice on the Discharge of the...

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Executive summary This report examines why 25% of incoming calls originate from the procurement team, either posing questions or passing on updates and information to the team. Conducted across August and September 2024, the study incorporates statistical data gathered and assembled from a range of various sources. A cross-party cohort of lawyers and support staff, headed up by Fred Smith, undertook the work. Its objective was to locate present bottlenecks within the process, determine their root causes, and outline how they might be resolved. The aim was to identify current bottlenecks, their causes, and remedies. The principal recommendations are: enhance communication throughout the contract drafting process define what constitutes a conflict of interest and explain why it matters publish an online infographic of the contract drafting process as a clear and consistent point of reference tighten compliance protocols for how information is stored on...

[ Insert address of applicant ] [ Insert name of public authority ] [ Insert address of public authority ] [ Insert date of application ] Dear [ insert organisation name ], I am seeking disclosure of the following information pursuant to section 1(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000: [ Insert description of the information requested ]. Please provide the information in [ specify hard copy or electronic format ]. If you have any questions about this request, or a fee is necessary to process it, kindly contact me at the earliest opportunity [ , ideally by [ insert method ] ]. My contact details are as follows: Address: [ insert address for correspondence ] Telephone: [ insert telephone number ] Email: [ insert email address ] Yours faithfully, [ Insert name of applicant ]......

This Q&A concerns a contract for land and vehicles―a mixed contract. Not every land transaction must follow a public procurement process publicised in the Official Journal of the European Union. Whether such a procedure is needed depends on the character of the arrangement and the contracting authority’s involvement, though land can still comprise a procurable component within a contract. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015), SI 2015/102, do not apply where a contract contains inseparable mixed elements and the procurable aspects are not the contract’s principal object. The key point here is to determine whether the dominant element is the vehicles or the land. Under PCR 2015, SI 2015/102, reg 4(2), there are provisions guiding a contracting authority when dealing with a contract that includes some, but not exclusively, procurable elements......

Brexit—Commercial For help with your query, please refer to the following: Brexit—contract clauses and resources—checklist [Archived] Clause: Brexit—warranty for commercial contracts clause [Archived] Clause: Territory definition For additional guidance, see: Brexit collection......

Q&A For this Q&A, we take 'email journaling' to mean a method whereby messages entering or leaving a server are duplicated and sent to a single designated mailbox, creating a record of every message in and out, arranged in a user-selected order (typically by date/time). We have limited this response to circumstances that fit those assumptions, and to cases where the journal mailbox cannot be changed or interfered with by any server user holding normal privileges......