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Admissibility of expert evidence in procurement challenges ( R (on the application of Good Law Project Ltd) v Minister for the Cabinet Office)

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Student misconduct investigations—what is trending?

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Local Government weekly highlights—29 July 2021

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Disclosure in coronavirus (COVID-19) procurement challenges (Good Law Project Ltd and Everydoctor Ltd v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care)

The following Commercial news provides comprehensive and up to date legal information on Disclosure in coronavirus (COVID-19) procurement challenges (Good Law Project Ltd and Everydoctor Ltd v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care)

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Arms length management organisations (ALMOs)

Arms length management organisations (ALMOs)An arms length management organisation (ALMO) is a not-for-profit company that provides housing services...

Professional Standards Authority

Professional Standards AuthorityWhat is the Professional Standards Authority?The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) oversees the work of the UK’s...

Reversionary lease by reference

LR1. Date of the lease[date]LR2. Title Number(s)LR2.1 Landlord's title number(s)[title numbers out of which this Lease is granted. Leave blank if not...

Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) for commercial property in Scotland

Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) for commercial property in ScotlandHow do EPCs apply to commercial property in Scotland?This Practice Note...

Practice notes

Judicial review—time limits and the pre-action protocol

Judicial review—time limits and the pre-action protocolWhen considering whether and how to bring a claim for judicial review, the first step is to...

Produced in partnership with Matthew Purchase of Matrix Chambers and Dr Mirza Ahmad of St Philips Chambers 19th May

Practice notes

Highways, street works and statutory undertakers

Highways, street works and statutory undertakersCoronavirus (COVID-19): This Practice Note contains guidance on matters that have temporarily been...

Produced in partnership with Nicholas Hancox of Nicholas Hancox Solicitors Ltd and Alistair Frew of Lodders LLP 19th May

Practice notes

Off-street parking orders

Off-street parking ordersSTOP PRESS: the Parking Places (Variation of Charges) Act 2017 came into force on 27 June 2017 and has introduced a change to...

19th May

Practice notes

Malicious falsehood

This Practice Note provides an introduction to the tort of malicious falsehood. Unlike a claim for defamation, there is no requirement in a claim for...

Produced in partnership with 5RB 19th May

In-house

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How to obtain a writ of control—High Court judgments

How to obtain a writ of control—High Court judgmentsThis Practice Note concerns provisions of the CPR and related legislation (The Tribunals, Courts...

19th May

Practice notes

Brexit—exiting the EU under Article 50 [Archived]

Brexit—exiting the EU under Article 50 [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained.This Practice Note contains...

Produced in partnership with Adam Cygan of University of Leicester 19th May

Brexit

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What is the purposive approach to statutory interpretation?

What is the purposive approach to statutory interpretation?Purposive (teleological) constructionThe purposive approach has its roots in legal systems...

19th May

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What effect does the service of a notice of seeking possession (NOSP) have on the legal status of a secure tenant? When does a secure tenancy end, on service of NOSP or on granting of the eviction order?

What effect does the service of a notice of seeking possession (NOSP) have on the legal status of a secure tenant? When does a secure tenancy end, on...

Produced in partnership with Alex Campbell of Field Court Chambers 19th May

Practice notes

Call-off procedures under framework agreements

Call-off procedures under framework agreementsBrexit impact—public procurementThe UK public procurement regime derives from EU public procurement...

Produced in partnership with Mr Andrew Millross of Anthony Collins Solicitors 19th May

Practice notes

Demoted tenancies

Demoted tenanciesCoronavirus (COVID-19): During the current pandemic, legislation and changes to practice and procedure in the courts and tribunals...

19th May

Practice notes

Assignment and succession of tenancy

Assignment and succession of tenancyCoronavirus (COVID-19): During the current pandemic, legislation and changes to practice and procedure in the...

Produced in partnership with Morayo Fagborun Bennett of Hardwicke Chambers 19th May

Practice notes

Sexual entertainment licensing

Sexual entertainment licensingWhat is a sex establishmentThe Local Government (Miscellaneous Provision) Act 1982 (as amended) (LG(MP)A 1982) creates...

Produced in partnership with Chris Grunert of John Gaunt Solicitors 19th May

Practice notes

The standstill period

The standstill periodWhat is the standstill period?When a contracting authority reaches its decision on the award of a public contract subject to the...

Produced in partnership with Lee Digings of Lee Digings Associates 19th May

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Child protection conferences

Child protection conferencesPlease note the information in this Practice Note relates to the current law in England. The law in Wales in this area is...

Produced in partnership with Claire Cousin 19th May

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Teacher serious misconduct in England

Teacher serious misconduct in EnglandCoronavirus (COVID-19): This Practice Note contains guidance on subjects impacted by the Coronavirus Act 2020 (CA...

19th May

Practice notes

Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST)

Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST)Coronavirus (COVID-19): This Practice Note contains guidance on subjects impacted by the...

Produced in partnership with Shazia Akhtar of Hardwicke Chambers 19th May

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Practice notes

The Public Guardian

The Public GuardianThe Public Guardian is a statutory office-holder and an appointee of the Lord Chancellor. The holder of the role of Public Guardian...

2nd Aug

Q&As

X runs a hotel and this is the source of their sole income. The hotel is jointly owned by X and Y (their mother), and X's mother was admitted to a nursing home when she started to suffer from dementia. X's mother has paid her nursing home fees for the last two years but funds have now run out and the local authority are taking over her care. The local authority wish to put a charge on the property and if this happens, they will seek to sell the hotel; X's business will be ruined and they will lose their income. X cannot afford to buy their mother out and the property is not eligible for disregard. Does X have any defence?

X runs a hotel and this is the source of their sole income. The hotel is jointly owned by X and Y (their mother), and X's mother was admitted to a...

1st Aug

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Where an individual lacks capacity, has no appointed attorney or deputy to represent them, but has been assessed by the local authority (LA) as requiring care, but self-funding and placed by them into a care home, what are the LA’s obligations to the individual?

Where an individual lacks capacity, has no appointed attorney or deputy to represent them, but has been assessed by the local authority (LA) as...

1st Aug

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How can a local authority recovery care fees after the person receiving the care has died? Can interest continue to be charged to the estate after death?

How can a local authority recovery care fees after the person receiving the care has died? Can interest continue to be charged to the estate after...

1st Aug

Q&As

How can we appeal to appeal a decision of a local authority to move a client under the court of protection, who has fallen below the funding threshold, to another home where funding levels are cheaper?

How can we appeal to appeal a decision of a local authority to move a client under the court of protection, who has fallen below the funding...

1st Aug

Q&As

What do local authority means testing assessments take into account, for the purposes of assessing an elderly client's income/capital in relation to care home fees?

What do local authority means testing assessments take into account, for the purposes of assessing an elderly client's income/capital in relation to...

1st Aug

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Does a local authority retain any duties when it commissions provision of services to a third party?

Does a local authority retain any duties when it commissions provision of services to a third party?In answering the above, we have taken into...

1st Aug

Q&As

Does a local authority need to apply to the Court of Protection for a personal welfare order in order to transfer an objecting and incapacitated adult from home to a care home at which a standard authorisation of the deprivation of liberty is to be granted by the Supervisory Body?

Does a local authority need to apply to the Court of Protection for a personal welfare order in order to transfer an objecting and incapacitated adult...

1st Aug

Q&As

Can an elderly client give their property to their children to limit the amount of nursing home fees they will need to pay if that becomes necessary without suffering adverse consequences?

Can an elderly client give their property to their children to limit the amount of nursing home fees they will need to pay if that becomes necessary...

1st Aug

Q&As

If a person lacks litigation capacity and is homeless, can their deputy or someone with a registered LPA make a homelessness application for them?

If a person lacks litigation capacity and is homeless, can their deputy or someone with a registered LPA make a homelessness application for them?The...

Produced in partnership with Kevin Long of Hackney Law Centre 1st Aug

Q&As

Is the local authority duty to provide after-care imposed by section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 still a distinct duty to that imposed by section 9 of the Care Act 2014?

Is the local authority duty to provide after-care imposed by section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 still a distinct duty to that imposed by...

1st Aug

Q&As

Can a property in Scotland be accepted as security for a Deferred Payment Agreement under the Care Act 2014?

Can a property in Scotland be accepted as security for a Deferred Payment Agreement under the Care Act 2014?For the purposes of this Q&A we have...

1st Aug

Scottish Law

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Is it possible for a local authority or healthcare provider to pay for or prescribe e-cigarettes?

Is it possible for a local authority or healthcare provider to pay for or prescribe e-cigarettes?Electric-cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are currently...

1st Aug

Q&As

It is a condition of a deferred payment agreement under the Care Act 2014 that the local authority will not unreasonably withhold or delay consent to a service user’s property being let as an assured shorthold tenancy (AST) which enables an order for possession to be obtained on one month’s notice after an initial term of no more than six months, and which enables possession to be obtained on the minimum statutory notice period. Can an AST be granted on these terms given that a landlord must give two months’ notice under section 21 of the Housing Act 1988?

It is a condition of a deferred payment agreement under the Care Act 2014 that the local authority will not unreasonably withhold or delay consent to...

Produced in partnership with Kevin Long of Hackney Law Centre 1st Aug

Q&As

How do I secure a DPA for care fees under the Care Act 2014 against a chattel?

How do I secure a DPA for care fees under the Care Act 2014 against a chattel?See Practice Note: Key issues in taking security from individuals and,...

1st Aug

Q&As

Do you have any information in connection with a deferred payment agreement under Part 1 of the Care Act 2014?

Do you have any information in connection with a deferred payment agreement under Part 1 of the Care Act 2014?This Q&A relates to the requirement of a...

1st Aug

Q&As

Can the limitation period under section 69 of the Care Act 2014 be extended by agreement between the parties?

Can the limitation period under section 69 of the Care Act 2014 be extended by agreement between the parties?The limitation period under section 69(3)...

1st Aug

Q&As

What is the limitation period for recovery of the Care Act 2014 liabilities?

What is the limitation period for recovery of the Care Act 2014 liabilities?According to section 69(3) of the Care Act 2014 (CA 2014):‘A sum is...

1st Aug

Q&As

Can costs (including legal costs) incurred by a local authority when providing care and support to an adult be reimbursed if another local authority later accepts that adult is ordinarily resident in its area? Is there a precedent costs order if proceedings need to be issued?

Can costs (including legal costs) incurred by a local authority when providing care and support to an adult be reimbursed if another local authority...

1st Aug

Q&As

How is part ownership of a working farm treated when assessing an individual’s capital for residential care purposes? Can the surviving family reopen a local authority capital assessment post death?

How is part ownership of a working farm treated when assessing an individual’s capital for residential care purposes? Can the surviving family reopen...

Produced in partnership with Warren Shackleton of Network Homes 1st Aug

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