The Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) has published a report examining the legal conditions under which immigrants and their descendants may acquire citizenship across Europe. The study identifies considerable variation in residence, integration and procedural requirements among European states. Commissioned by the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) in Switzerland, the report analyses the citizenship frameworks of eleven European countries and draws on the GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset, which covers 31 European jurisdictions. It examines the rules governing naturalisation, birthright citizenship and descent, as well as procedural aspects such as residence periods, integration tests and administrative discretion.

The Good Law Project (GLP) has announced that it is supporting a legal challenge to the Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) statutory Code of Practice for Services, Public functions and Associations, which came into force following the UK government's approval. GLP says it is supporting a trans person and a trans-inclusive organisation in bringing a legal challenge, including by sending a pre-action letter to the EHRC and the government alleging that the code is unlawful.

The Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) has published two practical guides aimed at supporting social workers in assisting children in care to resolve their immigration status. The initiative builds on longstanding collaboration with the Manchester City Council, which pledged to identify and support all children in care with insecure immigration status.

HM Revenue and Customs has published a Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP) equalisation newsletter to update stakeholders on the latest news for pension schemes.

This is a guidance note for actuaries on the calculation of cash equivalents. It is published by the Board for Actuarial Standards.

Certificate issued by the scheme actuary to the trustees confirming that the cash equivalent has been calculated in accordance with legislative requirements and guidance notes (in particular GN11).

This is a guidance note for actuaries on transfers without consent. It is published by the Board for Actuarial Standards and sets out considerations to be taken into account, and information to be given to trustees, when providing a certificate for a transfer without consent.

General Nuclear International: the UK entity responsible for CGN's nuclear and other projects in the UK.

General Nuclear Services: joint venture between CGN and EDF responsible for completing the GDA process for the Hualong 1 reactor.

Although its popularity has declined in recent years in favour of permissive licences such as MIT, and despite the introduction of a later version—the GNU GPL 3.0, a significant amount of software remains licensed under the GPL 2.0. Along with GNU GPL 3.0, it is a controversial and widely-discussed licence, primarily because of the copyleft consequences which are strongly inconsistent with commercial software licensing practices. Under the GPL 2.0, any work that is distributed or published, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the GPL program or any part of it, must be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties. Among other things, this requires enabling recipients to copy, modify, and redistribute the work and requires the licensee to make the source code available. There is significant debate about the triggering events that bring this provision into play. In particular, the meaning of ‘distribute’ and when, exactly, a piece of software ‘contains or is derived from’ the GPL-covered software. This Practice Note sets out the

The Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT) has published guidance to assist public sector bodies (PSBs) in commercialising Knowledge Assets (KAs) outside the public sector while complying with the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015 (RPSIR 2015), SI 2015/1415 and Crown copyright. The Information Commissioner’s Office enforces RPSIR 2015, SI 2015/1415, which generally apply to information produced within a PSB’s public task, excluding computer programs; PSBs must meet duties of competition, cost-recovery, fairness, and transparency, with limited exceptions. Crown copyright protects works created by Crown servants and is typically licensed under the Open Government Licence (OGL), though alternative terms require a delegation of authority from the National Archives. For commercialisation, PSBs should define objectives, assess KA composition, and consider licensing routes including OGL, Delegation-based licensing, assignment (for Crown works only), and other UK Government Licensing Framework options. The guidance includes tools to support decision-making and applies to both Crown and non-Crown contexts.

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