Friends of the Earth (FoE) and South Lakes Action on Climate Change (SLACC) have brought two separate but related legal challenges over the Cumbrian coal mine, which will be heard by the High Court from 16 to 18 July 2024. FoE and SLACC will argue that the decision by the former Secretary of State for Communities, Michael Gove, to grant planning permission for the mine was unlawful. Although the government has conceded that the planning permission was unlawful and will not defend the matters, West Cumbria Mining, the mine's developer, has confirmed that it will defend the legal challenges.

Freedom of Information Act 2000: An Act which came into force on 1 January 2005 and gives people the right to request information held by or on behalf of public bodies.

The Organisation Privacy International made a Freedom of Information (FOI) request about the Home Office's 'Identify and Prioritise Immigration Cases' (IPIC) system, which is a digital system which recommends individuals for immigration enforcement action. There are long-standing concerns that the use of algorithms for decision-making may import unacceptable bias. The Home Office initially refused to disclose information about the system, but redacted data was later disclosed after a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office. The disclosed data shows that IPIC flags individual cases for caseworkers to take forward as recommended or refuse to do so and is based on filtering Home Office files by certain groups.

Law360: It is no secret that in recent years, investors and managers have become increasingly focused on private markets and the private funds that provide access to them.

Immigration analysis: Working in immigration law carries a distinct emotional and moral weight that differs from many other areas of legal practice. Immigration practitioners are finding themselves regularly vilified, by politicians and media. We are labelled as ‘leftie, activist lawyers’, ‘do gooders, and ‘opportunists’ who have manipulated the immigration system for our financial gain. This article looks at the issue of wellbeing for immigration practitioners, and steps that can be taken to improve this. Written by Aisha Choudhry, senior associate, Bates Wells.

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Companies often require several rounds of funding. If a equity'>private equity firm has invested in a particular company in the past, and then provides additional funding at a later stage, this is known as ‘follow-on funding’.

This Practice Note sets out the steps to be taken on an application for a financial order after the first appointment in financial remedy proceedings. It explains how to prepare replies to questionnaires, letters of instruction to experts and witness statements on behalf of clients, and the instruction of counsel. Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, Pt 9, together with the supporting FPR 2010, PD 9A, apply to financial remedy proceedings, but regard should also be had to the Financial remedies guide (March 2026) (the FRG), together with guidance issued by the President of the Family Division on, inter alia, witness statements and expert evidence. See Practice Note: Financial Remedies Court (FRC) toolkit. The first appointment is a timetabling hearing, with the objective of defining the issues, managing costs and setting out the next stages of the financial order application. See Practice Note: The first appointment—Purpose of first appointment. Any directions made at the first appointment must be complied with within the timescales specified in preparation for the financial dispute resolution (FDR) appointment,

On 17 July 2014, the Finance Act 2014 (FA 2014) introduced the concept of a follower notice. The intention is for follower notices to apply to taxpayers who have used an avoidance scheme that has been shown to fail in another person’s litigation. Under the rules, a follower notice may be issued where there is a final relevant judicial ruling that either cannot be appealed or is too late to be appealed (including decisions made by the First-tier Tax Tribunal (FTT)), and the principles in the ruling would deny the tax advantage claimed by the taxpayer. Provided there is an open HMRC enquiry into the taxpayer’s return (or claim) or the taxpayer has made an appeal (and that appeal is still live), a follower notice can be issued to the taxpayer that obliges the taxpayer to amend their return (or claim) or drop their appeal in accordance with the earlier ruling, or face a penalty. Consequently, if a follower notice is issued to a taxpayer, the taxpayer has a stark choice. The taxpayer can: • concede to HMRC in the dispute

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When determining how to enforce an English court judgment in Belgium, which is an EU Member State, different considerations apply depending on when the substantive proceedings were commenced. A summary is set out in Practice Note: Cross-border enforcement of English judgments—principles. Where a judgment has been handed down in proceedings: • commenced on or before 31 December 2020—transitional provisions apply such that the enforcement provisions under Regulation (EU) 1215/2012 apply, if the regulation itself is applicable.

The question identifies the line of Court of Appeal authorities which hold that pre-action admissions are not subject to the regime set out in the (at the time of writing, prior to 1 October 2023) existing regime under rule 14. The ratio of the leading