REUTERS | Nicky Loh
25/08/2015

Public procurement legislation and policy review: June – August 2015

Our third post of this year on the key developments in public procurement legislation and policy that lawyers need to be aware of covers the period from June to August 2015. It does not consider case law as this is covered in our monthly public procurement case digest. For a summary of the latest cases, Public procurement case digest (July 2015).

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REUTERS | Toby Melville
20/08/2015

Public children law digest (June – August 2015)

This is a public children law update blog to give readers a snapshot of the important cases, issues and developments from June to August 2015. Please feel free to submit a comment below or send us an Ask query if you have any views on the cases, issues, or legal developments that are covered or if you think we have missed something that should be brought to the attention of child care law practitioners.

In this post, we look at the following:

  • Adoption.
  • Inherent jurisdiction and injunctions.
  • Practice points.
  • Child protection records retention.

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REUTERS | Fabrizio Bensch
12/08/2015

Public procurement case digest (July 2015)

July’s case digest includes a Supreme Court judgment dismissing Edenred’s appeal against a government decision not to tender for the administration of a new tax free childcare scheme, and two High Court decisions finding error in a local authority’s tender evaluation and considering remedies following this finding.

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REUTERS | David Bebber
03/08/2015

Administrative Court provides useful tips on judicial review practice and procedure in recent cases

The decisions of the Administrative Court often provide judicial review practitioners with useful tips on good practice in judicial review (or how not to pursue or defend a judicial review claim).  We set out below some recent cases in which courts have raised important principles in their judgments. Continue reading →

REUTERS | Jason Lee
31/07/2015

Local government quarterly digest (May – July 2015)

This is the latest in our series of quarterly local government update blogs, which will enable readers to catch up on the most important cases, issues or developments in local government from May 2015 to July 2015.

Please feel free to submit a comment below or send us an Ask query if you have any views on the cases, issues, or legal developments covered or if you think we have missed something that should be brought to the attention of local government practitioners.

In this post we look at:

  • Cases of interest to local authorities.
  • Various legislative and other developments of interest to local authority lawyers.

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REUTERS | Larry Downing
29/07/2015

Is devolution heading in the right direction?

The Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill 2015-16  is currently making its way through Parliament. The Bill takes forward reforms that are intended to allow for the implementation of devolution agreements with combined authority areas and with other areas. Its main provisions:

  • Provide for an elected mayor for the combined authority who would exercise specified functions individually and chair the authority.
  • Provide for the mayor to exercise the functions of the Police and Crime Commissioner for the combined authority area.
  • Broaden the functions than can be conferred on combined authorities beyond economic, development, regeneration and transport.

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