23 Jul, 2024 Law Commission opens consultation on contempt of court proceedings By Rebecca Sembuuze The Law Commission has begun consultation on reform of the law on Contempt of Court. The deadline to respond is 8 November 2024. The...
19 Jul, 2024 The King's speech and the Government’s planning agenda By Max Howarth The King delivered his speech in the House of Lords on Wednesday setting out the Government’s agenda for the next parliament. At the...
18 Jul, 2024 Small claims mandatory mediation pilot - Will it fly? By Bethany Milne As of 22 May 2024, mandatory mediation has been introduced for certain cases allocated to the small claims track where the only remedy...
18 Jul, 2024 Is now the time for commonhold? By Emma Hardman On Monday morning, at the end of our Annual Service Charge Update webinar, I briefly spoke about potential future changes in the context...
17 Jul, 2024 It's a go - Renters Reform now Renters Rights Bill By Helen Tucker The King's Speech today (the longest in over 20 years the BBC according to the BBC with 40 new Bills announced) confirms the new...
16 Jul, 2024 What the King's speech could mean for the housing sector in 2024 By Suzanne Gregson The State Opening of Parliament and the King's Speech will take place on Wednesday 17 July 2024. The King’s Speech is written by the...
11 Jul, 2024 Acronyms anyone?? There's a new MoU between RSH and HO By Sarah Patrice The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) and the Housing Ombudsman Service (HO) have put in place a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...
09 Jul, 2024 Planning promises... Labour pledges to make a change By Mahnoor Butt After a decade and a half, Britain has woken up to a new Labour Government. There are several anticipated changes within planning as...
01 Jul, 2024 Subject access requests – when to weed out third-party data By Emma Watt Libby Hubbard There are things in life, like taxes and laundry, that we know are necessary for democracy and cleanliness respectively but are just a...
25 Jun, 2024 On-call and standby shifts – working time or not? By Katherine Sinclair Libby Hubbard The Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR) can be problematic in so far as they only differentiate between working time and rest time, yet...
21 Jun, 2024 Seven years after the Grenfell tragedy - reaching their limit… How far do the leaseholder protections stretch? By Joanne Wright Paul Slinger The latest on remediation orders and remediation contribution orders The first contested remediation contribution order case (under...
21 Jun, 2024 Investigation into chatbot - a 'warning shot for industry' By Emma Watt The ICO has concluded its investigation into Snap Inc.’s use of its 'My AI' chatbot feature on the Snapchat platform. The My AI chatbot...