For the purposes of the Charities Act 2011 'special trust' means property which is held and administered by or on behalf of a charity for any special purposes of the charity.

A special verdict is a jury’s formal statement of specific findings, rather than a simple “guilty/not guilty” or “liable/not liable”, leaving the court to apply the law and enter judgment. In modern criminal practice in England and Wales and Northern Ireland, the term most commonly denotes the statutory verdict “not guilty by reason of insanity”, returned where the insanity defence is proved; this triggers disposal powers such as a hospital order, supervision order or absolute discharge. In Ireland, the Criminal Law (Insanity) Act 2006 likewise provides for a special verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity with corresponding disposals. Scotland recognises an acquittal on account of mental disorder at the time of the act under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, but the label “special verdict” is not generally used there.In civil jury trials (now rare in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland, e.g. in defamation), a special verdict describes the jury answering specific questions of fact set by the judge; the court then applies the law to those findings. This is a descriptive common law expression, reflected in current procedural rules, and is used consistently across the jurisdictions, though civil juries are infrequent.

The Specialised Committee on Citizens' Rights has published the agenda for its 14th meeting on 6 June 2024, to be held in Brussels and via conference call. Points of discussion include issues encountered by EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU, the upcoming EU and UK schemes from the perspective of the Withdrawal Agreement and implementation and application of the Withdrawal Agreement.

A specialist investment mandate or portfolio is usually one involving a single asset class, region or investment style (as opposed to ‘balanced’).

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has reported that following a Metropolitan Police investigation they have seized Bitcoin wallets worth an estimated value of £2 billion. Jian Wen was convicted of laundering by converting significant amounts of Bitcoin into cash and other expensive assets on behalf of an international fraudster who is yet to be arrested or brought before the court. The CPS Proceeds of Crime Division has obtained a Property Freezing Order from the High Court against Wen whilst it undertakes a non-conviction-based civil recovery investigation, which could result in the forfeiture of the seized Bitcoin.

A segment of the Main Market which is aimed at specialist investment entities that wish to target institutional, highly knowledgeable investors or professionally advised investors and which is not open to trading companies. It is not part of the FCA’s Official List.

The Specialist Services section of the SRA Handbook

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. NOTE: SAVE FOR WHERE THE APPEAL NOTICE WAS FILED OR PERMISSION TO APPEAL WAS OBTAINED BEFORE 1 OCTOBER 2012, THIS PRACTICE NOTE IS FOR HISTORIC PURPOSES ONLY. Further, the CPR rules and practice directions referred to in this guidance will link through to the existing provisions and not those effective before 1 October 2012. For the pre-October 2012 provisions, please see the attached pdf documents. CPR 52 (old) CPR PD 52 (old) Introduction The CPR contains guidelines on specialist appeals to different divisions of the High Court. The procedure for these appeals is slightly different in each case. This note provides a series of links to the part of the practice direction to Part 52 that deals with those appeals. The provisions should be read in conjunction with the basic appeals procedure set out in CPR Part 52. Appeals heard in the Queen's Bench Division The following types of appeals are heard in the Queen's Bench division. Statutory appeals

This expression is generally used to describe a sub-contractor which is responsible for a specialised part of the works, such as groundworks.

Unlicensed medicinal products for human use which have been specially manufactured or imported to the order of a doctor, dentist, nurse independent prescriber, pharmacist independent prescriber or supplementary prescriber for the treatment of individual patients in order to fulfil the special needs of an individual patient.

A speciality is a contract or covenant executed as a deed.

Introduction and background The State of Nature and Climate 2025 briefing paper published by the World Economic Forum included the following key findings: ‘The Planetary Health Check provides strong scientific evidence that humanity is putting the stability of the entire Earth system at risk, jeopardizing global economic development. Overall, the planetary boundaries are in the “zone of increasing risk”. Six of the nine boundaries are already breached, with trends indicating further worsening. The six breached boundaries are climate change, novel entities, biogeochemical flows, freshwater change, land system change and biodiversity. Ocean acidification is worsening and rapidly approaching the planetary boundary.’ This is consistent with an earlier World Wildlife Fund report, Living Planet Report 2022, which revealed that global wildlife populations have declined by 69% on average since 1970 around the world, while freshwater species populations have seen the biggest decline overall, with a global decline of 83%. In summary, there is an urgent need for species protection. There are four main categories of protection for species: • habitat conservation, by designating key sites • protection for individual animals and