What is the ‘supplier of last resort’?When the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) revokes a supply licence (usually because of insolvency),...
Brexit: The UK's departure from the EU on exit day ie Friday 31 January 2020 has implications for practitioners considering the use of ADR as it may...
Brexit: This Practice Note contains guidance on subjects impacted by the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. As of 31 January 2020 (exit day), the UK is no...
STOP PRESS: This Practice Note is being reviewed in light of the 5 May 2020 agreement by most EU Member States to terminate their intra-EU bilateral...
What is a Turbine Supply Agreement (TSA)?The Turbine Supply Agreement (TSA) is a critical component of the contractual framework for a wind farm. This...
A distribution network operator (DNO) can exercise its powers to obtain a necessary wayleave regardless of the number of connecting parties; however,...
Wayleaves: what they are and how they ariseThe legal nature of a wayleave is that it is a ‘consent’—or licence—given by the owner of land to another...
What if a seller has purchased CRC allowances that haven't been surrendered?As a result of the prospective sale of part or all of his undertaking, a...
There is no judicially accepted definition of the term ‘force majeure’, so what the parties mean by it must be expressly set out in the contract (ie...
Gas companies’ rights to enter premises for maintenance and repair are statutory rights, mainly from the Rights of Entry (Gas and Electricity Boards)...
An instrument is validly executed as a deed by an individual only if it is signed by them in the presence of a witness who attests the signature. The...
A statutory declaration allows an individual to make a legal declaration confirming that something is true for the purposes of satisfying some legal...
A further education corporation validly established under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (FHEA 1992) is an exempt charity for the purposes...
The Limitation Act 1980 (LA 1980) is the key statutory framework setting out the circumstances when a limitation defence may or may not be taken. For...
The requirements for variation of a deedIt was formerly a rule of common law that contracts entered into by way of deed could only be varied by deed....
In English law, the expression ‘force majeure’ does not refer to a legal doctrine. Instead, the expression ‘force majeure clause’ is used to describe...
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