The Autumn Statement – Feeling the cold winds of Brexit…
All the civil servants’ time, effort and brains appear to have been sucked into Brexit issues, leaving an unimaginative response to some of the most significant challenges people are currently […]
Top tips – protecting and enforcing your intellectual property rights
1. Be proactive – New organisations, in both the private and third sector, spring up all the time. Existing organisations re-brand or change their name on a regular basis. Search the […]
Is your authority economically active? – State aid post Brexit
We never liked it anyway… The difficulty with EU State aid law is the width of transactions captured. If the Government was proposing to subsidise our steel industry, so that […]
When is a Care Assessment not a Care Assessment?
Background JF was, at the relevant time, 22 and he has complex needs arising from his learning disabilities and autism. He was at a further education college with his placement, […]
Sleep-ins: The latest decision for providers
Expectations were low, so its hard to be surprised but yesterdays’ announcement of the Social Care Compliance Scheme will have left most providers with a new headache to consider in […]
Neal, Freightliner and holiday pay…are we any closer to clarity?
Readers will recall that the Tribunal concluded in this case that a worker’s holiday pay ought to include overtime and premium payments when calculating the amount of basic remuneration. The […]
Capital Markets Deal Update from Anthony Collins Solicitors
This was a complex transaction involving the restructure of KHT’s existing loan facilities and included a £90m US private placement and secures funding for KHT’s future affordable housing development programme. […]
New test for whether penalties clauses in contracts should be given a red card
Inflated damages in tyres case In the 1915 landmark case of Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company, the House of Lords said that it was legitimate for a contract to specify (“liquidate”) […]
Now you have implemented the rent decreases/increases, here is a “new” rent increase form
From 6th April 2016 a new prescribed form must be used. So do make sure to use it next year (noting for many Registered Provider (RP) clients the only use […]
Brexit and Social Care – what next?
Leadership EU migrants fill an estimated 6% of jobs in the social care sector in England, and the majority of them will be concerned about what a British withdrawal from […]
Goodbye PQQ, hello SQ!
For anyone hoping that Brexit will give us greater control over our own public procurement destiny, the recent publication of a Procurement Policy Note (PPN) reminds us of exactly how […]
What does the Autumn Statement mean for infrastructure?
The Chancellor didn’t tell us much more than we already knew about the new Government’s plans for infrastructure over this Parliament and it seems that the Government isn’t entirely sure […]