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As a government lawyer your clients are experiencing various impacts on policy making from numerous and competing interests such as austerity, efficiency, collective/individual rights, European and devolved/delegated jurisdictions. Your job advising on legislation and risk of challenge through judicial review is increasingly time consuming and complex.
Brexit
With reform of retained EU law high on the agenda, post-Brexit legal changes remains a key issue. Get key information and updates for all practitioners, with practice area specific Brexit content across the modules.
Judicial Review
We outline the key principles and procedural requirements with a clear focus on the public sector perspective. The content focusses primarily on judicial review in the Administrative Court in England and Wales.
Public Procurement
Failure to stick to procedures can have significant legal, financial and practical consequences for a contracting authority. We guide you through various processes, focussing on the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
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The House of Commons Library has published an insight piece analysing the law officers' convention and its recent application in UK Government. The...
The House of Commons Procedure Committee has published a research briefing on the sub judice rule. The sub judice rule advises that Members of...
The Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) has published its fourteenth report of session 2024–2025, scrutinising statutory instruments (SIs)...
Details of updates to HMRC import, export and customs guidance for the period from 11 to 17 February 2025....
The House of Lords Conduct Committee has concluded its comprehensive review of the code of conduct, recommending several substantive changes. Key...
Latest Public Law Practice Notes
Effect of registering security at IP registries on priority of security interests IntroductionRegistration can have an important effect on the...
Taking security over intellectual property rightsScope of this Practice NoteA company's IP rights can be offered as security for a loan.In commercial...
Brexit legislation trackerThis Practice Note tracks the progress of UK legislation introduced as part of the legislative project associated with the...
REUL reform SI databaseThis Practice Note tracks the progress of secondary legislation introduced as part of the government’s post-Brexit reform...
Introduction to designsThis Practice Note provides an introduction to design law and covers the various design rights (both registered and...
Latest Public Law Precedents
Intellectual property internal audit questionnaireIntroduction:This questionnaire relates to the intellectual property (IP) audit being supervised by...
Confidentiality agreement—mutualThis Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[insert name of party] [of [insert details ] OR a company incorporated in...
Personal data sharing schedule—controller to controller—pro-disclosing partyDefined terms: This precedent schedule uses the additional defined terms...
Deed of assignmentThis DEED is made on [date]Parties1[insert name of Assignor] [of OR a company incorporated in [England and Wales] under number...
Short form letter of assignment[On headed notepaper of the assignor]To: [Insert name and address of Assignee][Insert date]Dear [insert name of...
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Methods of statutory interpretation used to resolve disputes about the meaning of legislation
Methods of statutory interpretation used to resolve disputes about the meaning of legislationIntroduction to statutory interpretationThe aim of...
Sources of constitutional law
Sources of constitutional lawIn briefThe British constitution is unwritten in the sense that it does not derive from a single constitutional text. It...
Direct effect of EU law
Direct effect of EU lawWhat is direct effect of EU law?The doctrine of direct effect is a fundamental principle of EU law developed by the Court of...
Convention rights—structure of qualified rights
Convention rights—structure of qualified rightsThe rights preserved under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as set out in the Human...
Separation of powers—legislative, executive and judiciary
Separation of powers—legislative, executive and judiciarySource of the doctrine of the separation of powersThe origins of the doctrine of the...
What is a public authority?
What is a public authority?There is no single, universal answer to the question whether a particular organisation is treated, in law, as a public...
Structure and functions of EU institutions and bodies
Structure and functions of EU institutions and bodiesThe EU’s unique institutional frameworkThe European Union is a supranational polity, and is...
Harmonisation
HarmonisationDefinitionHarmonisation, also known as standardisation or approximation, refers to the determination of EU-wide legally binding standards...
What is fettering of discretion in judicial review? When is it an actionable ground of challenge and what must be established for a challenge to succeed?
The status of EU law in the UK after Brexit [Archived]
The status of EU law in the UK after Brexit [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained.This Practice Note provides...
Indirect effect of EU law
Indirect effect of EU lawWhat is indirect effect of EU law?The doctrine of indirect effect, or consistent interpretation, is a duty that national...
What is Wednesbury unreasonableness?
Parliamentary supremacy—implied repeal
Parliamentary supremacy—implied repealEssential to Parliament’s legislative supremacy is the principle that Parliament is not bound by its...
The executive and the civil service
The executive and the civil serviceWhat is a civil servant?A civil servant is any permanent, non-political employee of central government—servants of...
What is the EU infringement procedure under Article 258 TFEU and how can proceedings be monitored?
EU internal competence
EU internal competenceThe limits of EU competencesThe limits of EU competences are governed by the principle of conferral (also known as principle of...
Free movement of EU workers and citizens
Free movement of EU workers and citizensEU workers and EU citizens enjoy the right of freedom of movement. This right is granted to EU workers in...
The four freedoms—goods, services, establishment and capital
The four freedoms—goods, services, establishment and capitalFree movement of goodsRestriction on importsScope of the prohibitionArticle 34 of the...
Associated legal terms
ASN
Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire: The French Nuclear Safety Authority is tasked, on behalf of the French State, with regulating nuclear safety and radiation protection in order to protect workers, patients, the public and the environment from the risks involved in nuclear activities in France. It also contributes to informing the citizens.
Off the Bars
When a nuclear power station is not generating electricity.
Table A
Default articles of association under CA 1985 which companies would automatically adopt if they did not file a bespoke constitution. In practice, many private companies limited by shares adopted Table A with some bespoke amendments. Table A can be found in the Companies (Tables A to F) Regulations 1985 (SI 1985/805). For companies incorporated since 1 October 2009 Table A has been replaced by the model articles in the Schedules to the Companies (Model Articles) Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/3229), although any company incorporated before October 2009 may continue to use Table A until such time as they choose to use the model or other bespoke articles.
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