The registered owner of shares held on behalf of another (the beneficial owner).

Nominet announced that, from 7 July 2026, administration of .UK Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) cases will transfer to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), an established global provider of domain dispute resolution services. The transfer forms part of Nominet’s .UK Standardisation programme, which is modernising how .UK is managed. Nominet will retain responsibility for the policy and overall direction of the DRS as a core part of its guardianship of .UK. The DRS Policy will remain unchanged, including the types of disputes that may be raised. Nominet’s trained mediators will continue to provide free mediation, and independent expert decisions, reviews and appeals will continue under the current policy framework.

This Practice Note provides an explanation of Nominet’s dispute resolution service (DRS), which applies to all .uk domain names. Application and purpose of the Nominet DRS The .uk DRS is designed to provide an efficient and cost-effective means of resolving disputes over domain names without the need for litigation. While previously managed by Nominet, the registry for .uk domain names, it is now managed by WIPO, which applies the Nominet DRS Policy to disputes. The Nominet DRS applies to all .uk domain names that are registered and administered by Nominet and is incorporated by reference into the Terms & Conditions of Domain Name Registration for each .uk domain name. If invoked by a complainant, the domain name holder (respondent) is bound by the Nominet DRS Policy, which includes its rules of procedure. The outcome is enforced by Nominet. While closely modelled on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute resolution Policy (UDRP), the Nominet DRS has some unique features such as a mediation stage, a summary decision (for default cases), and lower

A non-disclosure agreement (NDA), often called a confidentiality agreement, is a contract used to protect confidential information disclosed for a defined purpose (for example, M&A due diligence, outsourcing, R&D, employment or settlement talks). The term is descriptive rather than statutory; enforceability rests on contract principles and the equitable/common-law duty of confidence, with broadly consistent approach across England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland. UK Trade Secrets (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2018 and Ireland’s European Union (Protection of Trade Secrets) Regulations 2018 provide additional remedies for trade secrets.Key features typically include:- Clear definition of “Confidential Information” and the permitted purpose.- Permitted recipients and safeguards; need-to-know and security measures.- Carve-outs (public domain, independently developed, already known, legally required disclosure).- Duration (finite for ordinary information; potentially indefinite for trade secrets).- Return/destruction, no-licence, and no-warranty clauses.- Governing law and jurisdiction.- Remedies: damages and urgent injunctive relief (interim injunction; interdict in Scotland; interlocutory injunction in Ireland), delivery up and account of profits.NDAs cannot lawfully prevent protected disclosures or reporting to regulators/law enforcement (e.g., UK whistleblowing law and Ireland’s Protected Disclosures regime). Overbreadth, ambiguity or unreasonable restraints risk unenforceability. Mutual and one‑way forms are common; choice depends on whether both parties disclose.

Applicable families This Practice Note covers the situation where a family with at least one child under the age of 18 is within the UK with no current leave to remain (LTR) (ie a person who falls within paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (NIAA 2002) who is in breach of immigration laws and who has not made a claim for asylum/protection as defined by NIAA 2002, s 82(2) (as amended)). The case of R (on the application of EAT) v Newham London Borough Council considered how a local authority (LA) should approach section 122(5)(b) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and whether there were reasonable grounds for believing that a person had made a claim for asylum that would prohibit the LA from providing support. The court found that the focus of such an assessment should be the relevant application

Not guilty.

A plea that a person who appears to have executed a deed did not in fact do so.

Financial Services analysis: In this case the Upper Tribunal dismissed applications by Mr Kasim Garipoglu and GKPay Ltd seeking non-publication of their respective FCA Decision Notices and exclusion of Mr Garipoglu’s name from the Tribunal’s register. The Tribunal confirmed the strong presumption in favour of publication under section 391 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA 2000) and the open justice principle. Expert evidence of reputational harm was also considered insufficient to displace the presumption. The decision confirms that persons subject to FCA enforcement who refer Decision Notices to the Tribunal do so in a public forum, and non-publication requires cogent, particularised evidence of serious harm if that argument is going to be considered. Written by Shanzé Shah, barrister at Old Square Tax Chambers.

A financial promotion made in writing.

The acquisition of a private or unquoted company is typically structured through a contractual arrangement documented in a sale and purchase agreement between the seller(s) and the buyer. This Practice Note looks at how an acquisition of an unquoted company (target) can instead be effected by way of an offer, the circumstances in which such a structure might be used, the main documentation required and the key legal, regulatory and commercial issues to note. This note also looks at the application of the financial promotion regime to approaches to target shareholders and offers made for unquoted companies. This Practice Note does not cover offers for listed and quoted companies effected under the General Principles and detailed Rules set out in the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers (Code) under the supervision of the Takeover Panel (Panel), (as to which, see generally: Terms and conduct of an offer—overview). Structuring an acquisition—offer or agreement? There are a number of circumstances in which it may be necessary or expedient to structure an acquisition of a private or unquoted public

STOP PRESS: With effect from 13 July 2026, the probate application fee increased from £300 to £526 along with smaller inflationary increases to other probate fees. See: LNB News 22/06/2026 44 and News Analysis: Probate and Court of Protection fee increases from 13 July 2026. Current probate fees The fees currently applicable are: Application Fee Application for a grant of probate or letters of administration for estates in excess of £5,000 net £526 (although note special exemptions below) Duplicate/second grant for same deceased person £22 Application for the entry or extension of a caveat £4 Application for a standing search £4 Deposit of Wills £24 Inspection of Will or other document retained by the registry £24 Copies: On a request for: (a) a copy of a grant of probate requested at the same time as the grant application is submitted £2 (but see below) (b) a copy of a document of a specified individual named in the request, including copy grants requested separately from the initial

The rules and procedure relating to non-contentious probate proceedings.