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The recent High Court case of Thiam v Richmond Housing Partnership (2025) EWHC 933 (KB), considered the issue of proportionality when...

To paraphrase the Kipling poem very badly, if you can keep your head and apply the April statutory increases when all around you there is...

Section 12 of the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23) requires that contracting authorities (a) have regard to the fact that small and...

We are delighted to announce the first of our ACcess Development Club sessions on 29 April 2025.   What is the aim of ACcess Development?...

In a mini-competition run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the invitation to submit mini-tenders told framework suppliers...

As the Renters' Rights Bill (the Bill) continues its journey through Parliament, scheduled for Committee Stage in the House of Lords on...

Contracting authorities will have seen that there is a range of obligations relating to key performance indicators (KPIs) under the...

Lawyers love this word ‘reasonable’ – I would go as far as to say that we spend an unreasonable amount of time debating what reasonable...

Social Housing Development and the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23) What package? Where a developer offers to sell land, but only if it builds...

Technical specifications seem to be featuring in the European case law at the moment. In an earlier blog I discussed a case on sewage...

For the Local Government Pension Scheme, the new year starts not on 1 January but on 1 April and with the start of a new scheme year,...

The Crime and Policing Bill 2025 had its second reading in Parliament on 10 March 2025. The reading led to a significant number of...