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As a government lawyer your clients are experiencing various impacts on policy making from numerous and competing interests such as austerity, efficiency, collective/individual rights, European and devolved/delegated jurisdictions. Your job advising on legislation and risk of challenge through judicial review is increasingly time consuming and complex.
Brexit
With reform of retained EU law high on the agenda, post-Brexit legal changes remains a key issue. Get key information and updates for all practitioners, with practice area specific Brexit content across the modules.
Judicial Review
We outline the key principles and procedural requirements with a clear focus on the public sector perspective. The content focusses primarily on judicial review in the Administrative Court in England and Wales.
Public Procurement
Failure to stick to procedures can have significant legal, financial and practical consequences for a contracting authority. We guide you through various processes, focussing on the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
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Latest Public Law News
This week's edition of Public Law weekly highlights includes: Lord Reed delivers a significant ‘institutionalist’ speech on trust in the courts in a...
The Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has recommended Hugh Mercer KC as the leading candidate for the...
Dispute Resolution analysis: The Divisional Court has ruled on the consequences of misusing artificial intelligence (AI) in court proceedings....
Public Law analysis: The High Court has ruled that the fair-minded and informed observer would be entitled to conclude that there was a real...
Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has outlined the updated roles and responsibilities for parties involved in nominating peers to the House of Lords....
Latest Public Law Practice Notes
Price, payment terms and interestThis Practice Note summarises the main issues arising in relation to price, payment terms and interest provisions in...
UK GDPR—the public sectorThis Practice Note provides a summary of how the application of the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation,...
Brexit—implications for data protection [Archived]ARCHIVED: This archived Practice Note provides information on the Data Protection, Privacy and...
Profiling and automated decision-makingIn briefData protection law in the UK seeks to ensure information about living individuals (within the...
Negotiation guide—intellectual property assignment clauseAn IP assignment is the transfer, by an assignor to an assignee, of IP rights, so that the...
Latest Public Law Precedents
UK GDPR—training materialsThese training materials consist of template PowerPoint slides that can be used as the basis of one or more training...
Personal data sharing schedule—controller to controller—pro-disclosing partyDefined terms: This precedent schedule uses the additional defined terms...
Personal data sharing clause—controller to controller—pro-receiving partyDefined terms: This Precedent clause uses the additional defined terms...
Personal data processing schedule—short form—pro-controllerThis Precedent is drafted in contemplation of arrangements where the parties wish to insert...
Personal data processing schedule—short form—pro-processorThis Precedent is drafted in contemplation of arrangements where the parties wish to insert...
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Sources of constitutional law
Sources of constitutional lawIn briefThe British constitution is unwritten in the sense that it does not derive from a single constitutional text. It...
Methods of statutory interpretation
Methods of statutory interpretation used to resolve disputes about the meaning of legislationIntroduction to statutory interpretationThe aim of...
Convention rights—structure of qualified rights
Convention rights—structure of qualified rightsThe rights preserved under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as set out in the Human...
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...
Grounds of judicial review—unreasonableness
Grounds of judicial review—unreasonablenessThis Practice Note outlines the ground of judicial review usually known as unreasonableness or...
What is fettering of discretion in judicial review? When is it an actionable ground of challenge and what must be established for a challenge to succeed?
Separation of powers—legislative, executive and judiciary
Separation of powers—legislative, executive and judiciarySource of the doctrine of the separation of powersThe origins of the doctrine of the...
Grounds of judicial review—illegality
Grounds of judicial review—illegalityOverview of the illegality groundIllegality is the first of the grounds on judicial review set out by Lord...
What is a public authority?
What is a public authority?There is no single, universal answer to the question whether a particular organisation is treated, in law, as a public...
Grounds of judicial review—procedural impropriety
Grounds of judicial review—procedural improprietyProcedural impropriety as a ground of judicial review‘Procedural impropriety’ is the last of the...
Judicial review—interested parties and interveners
Judicial review—interested parties and intervenersInterested partiesIn the context of judicial review, an interested party is 'any person (other than...
Parliamentary supremacy—implied repeal
Parliamentary supremacy—implied repealEssential to Parliament’s legislative supremacy is the principle that Parliament is not bound by its...
What is the legal basis and effect of revoking UK legislation?
Grounds of judicial review—breach of legitimate expectation
Grounds of judicial review—breach of legitimate expectationThe ground of challenge based on legitimate expectations is designed to hold a public...
Royal Charters
Royal ChartersWhat is a Royal Charter?The term 'Royal Charter' has transformed over time. Originally, a Royal Charter was a procedure by which the...
Costs for judicial review—general principles
Costs for judicial review—general principlesGeneral rule on costs in judicial reviewThe general rule in relation to costs in judicial review, as in...
Judicial review—what it is and when it can be used
Judicial review—what it is and when it can be usedWhat is judicial review?Judicial review is a process by which the courts exercise a supervisory...
Judicial deference and the margin of appreciation
Judicial deference and the margin of appreciationJudicial deference is also known as the principle that 'respect is a central concept in judicial...
Associated legal terms
CLOUT
Case Law On UNCITRAL Texts reporting system is database of key cases on the UNCITRAL Model Law, maintained by UNCITRAL.
Handback
The process by which, at the end of the contract period, the assets which make up the project transfer to the public sector party. At the point of handback the assets will be required to meet certain standards and have a certain 'lifecycle' left in them.
Post-offer undertaking (Code definition)
A statement made by an offer party in any document, announcement or other information published by it in relation to the offer relating to any particular course of action that the party commits to take, or not take, after the end of the offer period and which is clearly described by that party as a post-offer undertaking. Note that the term does not include commitments made directly to, and enforceable by, a specific party or to a government or regulatory body to obtain an authorisation or clearance. Under Rule 19.5(a), the making of a post-offer undertaking requires prior consultation with the Panel.
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