REUTERS | Ina Fassbender
05/04/2017

Education law quarterly digest (January – March 2017)

This is the latest in our series of quarterly education update blogs which will enable readers to catch up on the most important cases, issues or developments in education law from January to March 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 education law practitioners.

In this post, we look at:

  • Legislative developments.
  • Government consultations
  • Government guidance and policy statements.

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REUTERS | Sharif Karim
04/04/2017

Audience questions from the Thomson Reuters procurement webinar “How to deal with complex procurement issues”

This Q and A was generated in the course of a webinar “How to deal with complex procurement issues” hosted by Thomson Reuters on 9 March 2017. The specialist panel was comprised of Owen Willcox (webinar co-ordinator and Procurement Editor, Practical Law), Michael Bowsher QC (Monckton Chambers), Rebecca Rees (Partner at Trowers and Hamlins LLP), and Michael Rainey ( Managing Associate, at Addleshaw Goddard LLP). The panel members put their heads together after the webinar and drafted the replies to the questions received.

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REUTERS | Bob Strong
29/03/2017

UK Government announces settlement of the Magnox procurement litigation

On 27th March 2017 the Energy Secretary Greg Clark announced that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority had settled the long-running damages claim brought against it by Energy Solutions and Bechtel arising out of the procurement competition for the £14bn contract to decommission the UK’s  12 Magnox reactors.  Continue reading →

REUTERS | Asmaa Waguih
22/03/2017

Freedom of information law quarterly digest (January-March 2017)

Our quarterly freedom of information law update blogs focus 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 on the topic. This post looks at freedom of information law developments from January to March 2017. In this post, we look at:

  • ICO decision notices.
  • Decisions of the First-tier Tribunal (Information Rights).
  • The Information Commissioner’s comments on digital communications and social media and the extent of FOIA.
  • Recent Ask queries.

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.

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