Normanton Chambers

This Q&A considers whether a contracting authority can require a tenderer to show compliance with some human rights obligations, a requirement that a tenderer demonstrate due diligence in establishing compliance with human rights obligations in the tender’s supply chain will only be permissible if such criteria are linked to the subject matter of the relevant contract to be awarded.

This Q&A considers the law governing school admissions in England and Wales.

This Q&A considers whether a local authority is able to grant licence to a third party statutory undertaker to discharge water from private drains into the highway drainage system.

This Q&A considers the role of the CQC with removing partners to a partnership on the grounds of lost capacity.

This Q&A considers whether a water company (water undertaker) can authorise another person to exercise some of its statutory powers and functions, for example, to enter property for certain purposes, subject to compliance with certain conditions under the Water Industry Act 1991.

This Q&A considers whether a claimant has to follow the statutory compensation scheme for loss caused by flood defence works, or whether an action can be brought in negligence.

This Q&A considers the scope of the obligation under regulation 8A of the School Staffing (England) Regulations 2009, SI 2009/2680, in relation to the law of England only.

This Q&A considers whether there is still a liability to pay child maintenance either via the Child Maintenance Service or via the court if a child leaves education at 16 to undertake work and then goes back into full time education at 18, and if the break in education has any impact on the parents liability.

This Q&A considers the power to compel attendance of students above 16 in full time education.

This question considers what procedural rules apply to an appeal by a taxi driver against a magistrates decision.

This Q&A considers the courts' approach to judicial review of administrative policies and guidance in light of R(A) v Home Secretary and R (Timson) v SSWP.

This Q&A considers the provision of childcare services and what authorisations are required for a playgroup provision for children who are not of school age on a maintained school premises.

This Q&A considers whether a school is contracting as a business or a consumer when entering into a contract for a school trip and protections available when a school trip has to be cancelled as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

This Q&A considers whether section 87 of EPA 1990, which makes it an offence to discard litter in a public place, applies to a supermarket car park.

This Q&A considers the liability for UK National Insurance contributions when a UK employer employs an individual who works solely from abroad and is not liable to UK income tax.

This Q&A considers if it is an offence under section 33(1)(a) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 for a householder to enter a local authority refuse site or amenity site with household waste but in a ‘commercial vehicle’ and without a ‘commercial vehicle’ license which is required to enter the site.

This Q&A considers whether a local authority, as lead local flood authority, is under an obligation to maintain flood defence structures it carried out on private land.

This Q&A examines the contracting authority's obligations under public procurement law in a scenario where a bidder for a public contract they are tendering is already providing services to the contracting authority under an existing contract.

This Q&A considers case law on the control of asbestos, the duty to manage, best practice principles which state that under the repairing provisions of a lease, there must first be an element of disrepair and any remedial works carried out must be appropriate.

This Q&A considers whether it is possible for contracting authorities to vary or specify terms for the purposes of call-off contracts under a Dynamic Purchasing System after tenderers have been admitted to the system.