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27/03/2014
In brief for week ending 26 March 2014
REUTERS | Eric Thayer
This is the fifth in our series of quarterly freedom of information law update blogs, which focuses on the latest developments in freedom of information law under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (SI 2004/3391) (EIR). The blog will enable readers advising on freedom of information law to catch up on the most important cases, issues or developments. This post looks at freedom of information law developments from January to March 2014.
Please feel free to submit a comment below or send us an Ask query if you have any views on the cases, issues or developments that are covered, or if you think we have missed something that should be brought to the attention of freedom of information practitioners.
21/03/2014
Long-term sick leave: schools’ hotline FAQs
Practical Law Public Sector addresses the questions that schools may ask local authorities regarding day-to-day school management and sets out the legal issues to consider when responding:
This FAQ examines a local education authority’s responsibilities where a pupil is absent on long-term sick leave. For all our school hotline queries, please see Practice note, Schools hotline FAQs.
20/03/2014
In brief for week ending 19 March 2014
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REUTERS | Mike Blake
Our first post of 2014 on key developments in public procurement policy that lawyers advising in this area need to be aware of covers the period from December 2013 to February 2014. It does not consider case law, which is covered in our monthly public procurement case digest. For a summary of the latest cases, see Public procurement case digest (February 2014).
Subscribers to Practical Law can keep up to date with the latest public procurement developments by signing up to the Practical Law Public Sector e-mail update (available weekly) or the Practical Law Competition updates (available daily). Updates are also tweeted on the @PracLawProcurement Twitter feed.
14/03/2014
In brief for week ending 12 March 2014
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12/03/2014
Excluding poorly performing bidders
Warsha Kalé, Associate Director, and Stuart Stock, Associate, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP:
Under the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (PCRs) a bidder may be excluded from a tender process at selection stage where that bidder has committed an act of “grave misconduct in the course of his business”. In EU-speak, under Directive 2004/18, this is known as “grave professional misconduct”.
REUTERS | Maxim Shemetov
This is the fifth of our series of quarterly housing law update blogs, which will enable readers specialising in housing law to catch up on the most important cases, issues or developments. The post looks at housing law developments from December 2013 to February 2014.
Please feel free to submit a comment below or send us an Ask query if you have any views on the developments that are covered or if you think we have missed something that should be brought to the attention of housing practitioners. Continue reading
07/03/2014
In brief for week ending 5 March 2014
Make sure that you have not missed a key development in your area of the law by reading our In brief review of the latest Practical Law Public Sector e-mail.
Practical Law Public Sector addresses the questions that schools may ask local authorities regarding day-to-day school management and sets out the legal issues to consider when responding:
This FAQ examines what a local education authority can do where the reasons for a pupil’s absence are unclear. For all our school hotline queries, please see Practice note, Schools hotline FAQs. Continue reading