Keeping the lights on
Lawyers Nick Churchward and Emma Andrews outline how the Government’s electricity market reform will support new renewable energy generation. This article featured in Energy Engineering.
23 August 2013
Insurance update: Notification of claims and circumstances ; July 2013
Avoiding the pitfalls of notification requirements and how to use the notification process to maximise recovery.
19 July 2013
Insurance update: Broker's duties ; June 2013
This month we look more closely at the duty of disclosure and at the broker’s role in helping business clients to comply with this onerous duty.
17 June 2013
New sentencing guideline ; our article for The In House Lawyer (May 2014)
This article by senior associate, Cheryl Parkhouse, considers the evolution of environmental compliance considered in the recently published guideline, ‘Environmental Offences: Definitive Guideline’.
09 May 2014
Legislative and regulatory update
The past few months have seen some interesting developments in legislative and regulatory requirements in the restructuring and insolvency world. We explore a number of them in this article.
19 April 2016
New Standard Forms for Public Procurement Notices
The European Commission recently published a set of new and revised standard forms for publishing public procurement notices.
19 November 2015
New state pension and abolition of contracting-out
Schemes integrated with the state pension system need to respond to the changes from 6 April. Action depends on how they are integrated and whether they will remain open to accrual.
02 March 2016
No MAC clauses ; the new superhero?
No material adverse change representations and events of default have been drafted into loan agreements for years and such clauses are rarely relied on by lenders as explored in a recent case here.
03 July 2013
New time limit for procurement-related judicial review
Dissatisfied with a public procurement decision? The new time limit leaves little time to do much about it with claimants being warned it may be too late by the time a procurement decision is made.
09 July 2013
North East Property Buyers: sale and rent back schemes leave nasty taste all round
The Supreme Court has handed down judgment in Scott v (1) Southern Pacific Mortgages Limited (2) Mortgage Express [2014] UKSC 52. We examine the case and the Law Lords' reluctant conclusion.
22 January 2015
NHS gets serious about procurement
A recent Department of Health report outlines how procurement strategies will be implemented across the NHS with suggestions of how to save millions in taxpayer money and better front-line services.
09 September 2013
Nuclear Law ; Spring 2014
Our latest update on legal developments, news and events in the nuclear sector.
10 April 2014