Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: The latest edition of Corporate Rescue and Insolvency (December 2024) is now available in Lexis+® UK (subscription required). This edition features, among others, articles exploring distressed liability management transactions as an alternative (or precursor) to formal in-court restructuring procedures, an analysis of the Cineworld restructuring plan, and guidance on how to interpret assimilated EU legislation effectively for insolvency cases.

Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: The latest edition of Corporate Rescue and Insolvency (February 2024) is now available in Lexis+® UK (subscription required). This edition features, among others, articles looking at exploring the assets and liabilities of insolvent energy suppliers, challenges faced by charities in the face of financial distress and seizure of a bankrupt's property under section 365 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (IA 1986).

Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: The latest edition of Corporate Rescue and Insolvency (February 2025) is now available in Lexis+® UK (subscription required). This edition features, among others, articles discussing the practical implications of the immovables rule in the UK following Kireeva v Bedzhamov, an analysis of the court’s decision in approving the distribution plan in Re WealthTek under the Investment Bank Special Administration Regulations regime, and a review of Part 26A restructuring plans in 2024 along with predictions for 2025.

Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: The latest edition of Corporate Rescue and Insolvency (February 2026) is now available in Lexis+® UK (subscription required). This edition features, among others, articles discussing the Fossil restructuring plan, the possibility of applying special situations law to the colonisation and commercialisation of outer space and insolvency in the retail business sector.

Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: The latest edition of Corporate Rescue and Insolvency (June 2022) is now available in Lexis®Library (subscription required). This edition features, among others, articles on the sanction of the restructuring plan in Smile Telecoms Holdings Ltd, the new restructuring officer regime in the Cayman Islands and third party enforcement of pension rights.

Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: The latest edition of Corporate Rescue and Insolvency (June 2025) is now available in Lexis+® UK (subscription required). This edition features, among others, articles exploring Part 26A restructuring plans and the LexisNexis’ Part 26A Trend Report, third party releases, and using Chapter 11 to restructure airlines.

Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: The latest edition of Corporate Rescue and Insolvency (June 2026) is now available in Lexis+® UK (subscription required). This edition features, among other things, articles that explore the resurgence of company voluntary arrangements, non-domestic rate liability for unoccupied commercial property despite a CVA, the interaction of arbitration and provisional liquidation in the Cayman Islands, liability management exercises, and money laundering risks in UK insolvency proceedings.

Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: The latest edition of Corporate Rescue and Insolvency (October 2025) is now available in Lexis+® UK (subscription required). This edition features, among others, articles exploring post-Petrofac commentary on Part 26A restructuring plans and the revised Insolvency Code of Ethics (ICE). Edited by Helen Coverdale (Norton Rose Fulbright (LLP) and Rebecca Eisemuth (LexisNexis).

Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: The latest edition of Corporate Rescue and Insolvency (October 2026) is now available in Lexis+® UK (subscription required). This edition features, among other things, articles that explore the implications for distressed boards, advisers and office-holders assessing potential misfeasance, the Supreme Court's decision in Valeriy Ernestovich Drelle v Servis-Terminal LLC, and Directive (EU) 2026/799 which requires member states to introduce a pre-pack framework by 22 January 2029.

The Home Office has released provisional statistics on entry clearance visa applications up to November 2024. The data confirms the ongoing significant changes in application patterns following recent immigration policy reforms. Health and Care Worker visa applications have markedly decreased, with only 1,900 main applicant applications in November 2024, down from a peak of 18,300 in August 2023. Skilled Worker visa applications also declined to 4,100 in November 2024 (down from around 6,000 per month between January 2022 and March 2024, and a peak of 10,100 in April 2024). Sponsored study visa applications for January to November 2024 were 16% lower than the same period in 2023, with a substantial 85% reduction in dependant applications following new restrictions. These trends reflect the impact of policy changes implemented throughout 2024, including increased salary thresholds for Skilled Workers and limitations on dependants for Students  and care workers.

Private Client analysis: This case considers the common law test for domicile (tax years preceding the deemed domicile rules, which came into force on 6 April 2017) in respect of Mr Aubrey Weis, a Rabbi and businessman who made money buying, letting, and selling properties all across the UK. Mr Weis had been born and raised in the Salford, where he had lived throughout his life, but he claimed to have had a domicile of origin in Tyachiv (which was, at that time party of Hungary, subsequently Czechoslovakia and now Ukraine), and to have acquired an Israel domicile of choice in 1970, which had never been displaced. It raises interesting questions about the adhesiveness of the domicile of origin, what is required to establish a domicile of choice, and the importance of consistencies in the presentation of evidence. Written by Georgia Hicks, barrister at Devereux Chambers.

Sir Michael Latham's report 'Constructing the Team', which was commissioned by the UK government and industry organisations. It foreshadowed many of the provisions of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. Its aim was to identify means of reducing construction costs and the number of construction disputes.