Ebriefings

Auto-enrolment compliance is a headache for many employers, with seemingly small failures leading to penalties from the pensions regulator (TPR).

In our second ebriefing on commercial purchasing tools in the Procurement Bill, we look at the provisions on dynamic markets and their likely practical implications.

Keeping up to date with regulatory and prosecution trends can help to give organisations a better understanding of regulators’ priorities.

On a hot day such as 18 July 2022, what better repast than to wander on to the Government’s Transforming Public Procurement page and then to meander on to the Hansard record of the House of Lords Committee Stage reading of 13 July?

On 23 May 2022, the Government produced its report on the enforcement of national minimum wage and national living wage.

When you receive Court of Protection documents in the post, the keywords you are looking for in the covering letter are statutory will proceedings and respondent.

Charities monthly round-up July 2022 contains several nuggets about how charities can ensure they have good governance and leadership, as well as news stories about the fates of those who haven’t.

As a family mediator, I am often asked to mediate on difficult situations such as when separating couples cannot agree on how their children will spend their time after the family home is sold or one parent moves out.

Under the Land Compensation Act 1973, a landlord may have to pay a resident a home loss payment if the resident is permanently displaced from their home (subject to the circumstances and various conditions that have to be satisfied).

Frameworks and dynamic markets will replace the rules in the Public Contracts Regulations (PCR) 2015 that apply to framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems (DPS), two commercial purchasing tools that have been used widely across the UK in recent years. This first ebriefing focuses on frameworks.

On 14 July 2022, the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) published its annual consumer review. The review covers the year 2021-22, providing valuable insight into the issues causing the RSH greatest concern and highlighting several matters that providers will need to address.

The Department for Education is reviewing its policy on approval of pass-through arrangements in the Local Government Pension Scheme