Ebriefings

Catch up with all the latest charity updates in this fortnight’s news roundup.

Yesterday, on 6 August 2020, the Government published the above White Paper. The purpose of the White Paper is to do the following: “Planning for the future, landmark reforms to speed up and modernise the planning system and get the country building”.

On 30 June 2020, Boris Johnson announced radical changes to the planning system.

This article is further to our previous e-briefing (published on 22 July 2020) where we informed you that there are new temporary measures (a new Practice Direction PD55c) that have been brought into deal with possession claims, following the stay being lifted on possession claims on 22 August 2020.

Six months after the first recorded case of COVID-19 in the UK, it is clear that charities, community organisations and volunteers have played a huge role in the UK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic

The Johnny Depp -v- News Group Newspapers trial concluded last week and has been widely publicised and reported on around the World.

There’s no doubt about it, the COVID-19 pandemic has placed incredible pressure on the NHS.

The use of video remote witnessing of Wills will become law.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s £3.8 billion SDLT giveaway may bring benefits for registered providers of social housing, according to ACS experts in the sector.

We have asked colleagues in the Employment Law team to highlight what they think is key to managing a redundancy programme well.

We finally have some detail about what will happen after the end of the possession stay/evictions ban on 23 August 2020.

Paperless land transactions may soon be possible following plans from HM Land Registry to accept digitally signed documents for registration.