REUTERS | Dani Cardona

May’s case digest includes a preliminary ruling of the ECJ on the principle of equality of treatment between tenderers, and an ECJ judgment considering the test for serious misrepresentation of tender information under Article 45(2)(g) of Directive 2004/18.

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REUTERS | Vasily Fedosenko

This post sets out the key developments in public procurement legislation and policy that lawyers need to be aware of and covers the period from March to May 2017. The post does not consider case law as this is covered in our monthly public case digest. For a summary of the latest cases, see Public Procurement case digest (April 2017). A new case digest covering cases from May 2017 will be published in mid-June 2017.

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REUTERS | Ricardo Moraes

April’s case digest includes an ECJ decision relating to the standard set by EU law for the review of preparatory acts prior to a contract award, and the Supreme Court decision in Nuclear Decommissioning Authority v EnergySolutions regarding the circumstances in which damages may be recoverable for failure to comply with the requirements of Directive 2004/18/EC.

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REUTERS | Daniel Munoz

This is the latest in our series of quarterly adult social care update blogs giving readers a snapshot of the most important cases, issues or developments in adult social care. This post looks at developments from January 2017 to April 2017. 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 adult social care practitioners.

In this post we look at:

  • The Spring 2017 Budget.
  • New legislation.
  • Recent case law.
  • Guidance and policy statements.
  • Local Government Ombudsman decisions.
  • House of Commons Library Briefing papers.

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REUTERS | David Bebber

On 22 November 2016, in ClientEarth’s judicial review of the government’s air pollution policy, the High Court ordered the defendant, the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (SoS) to publish a draft modified Air Quality Plan (AQP) by 4pm on 24 April 2017, and a final Air Quality Plan by 31 July 2017 (see Legal update, ClientEarth succeeds in judicial review application to quash government’s December 2015 air quality plan (High Court)).

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