Construction analysis: On 16 October 2024, the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) published the 2024 editions of its Major Project, Constructing Excellence, and Prime Cost Building contracts, along with their associated guides and sub-contracts. In this analysis, we focus on the Prime Cost contract, and look at how it differs from its 2016 equivalent.

Construction analysis: On 5 March 2024, the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) published the 2024 editions of its Construction Management Contract and Management Building Contract, alongside 2024 editions of Framework Agreement, Dispute Adjudication Board Documentation, Adjudication Agreement, and Project Bank Account Documentation. In this analysis, we focus on the Construction Management Contract, and look at how it differs from its 2016 equivalent.

Construction analysis: On 17 April 2024, the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) published the 2024 editions of its Design and Build Contract and Design and Build Sub-Contract Agreement and Conditions, along with associated guides. In this article, we consider how these contracts differ from their 2016 equivalents. Key changes include new grounds for extensions of time (termed ‘Relevant Events’ in the JCT suite of contracts) and recovery of loss and expense (ie ‘Relevant Matters’), several provisions responsive to legislation changes introduced through the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA 2022) and the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (CIGA 2020), amendments to the termination provisions, changes to the provisions on design liability, and the inclusion of clauses addressing sustainable development and collaborative contracting that formerly were optional.

Construction analysis: On 16 October 2024, the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) published the 2024 editions of its Major Project, Constructing Excellence, and Prime Cost Building contracts, along with their associated guides and sub-contracts. In this analysis, we focus on the Major Projects contract and sub-contract, and look at how these differ from their 2016 equivalents.

Construction analysis: On 5 March 2024, the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) published the 2024 editions of its Construction Management Contract and Management Building Contract, alongside 2024 editions of Framework Agreement, Dispute Adjudication Board Documentation, Adjudication Agreement, and Project Bank Account Documentation. In this analysis, we focus on the Management Building Contract, and look at how it differs from its 2016 equivalent.

Construction analysis: On 16 October 2024, the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) published the 2024 editions of its Major Project, Constructing Excellence, and Prime Cost Building contracts, along with their associated guides and sub-contracts. In this analysis, we focus on the Prime Cost contract, and look at how it differs from its 2016 equivalent.

Construction analysis: The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) released its much anticipated Target Cost Contract 2024 family on 25 June 2025. This is the first form of target cost contract published by the JCT, representing a major addition to its suite. In this article, we look at the key features of this contract family, including its payment and difference sharing mechanisms.

Relevant articles The Journal of Renewable Energy Law and Policy has been discontinued and no further issues will be released. This journal provided a platform for review and discussion, both in Europe and internationally, of the legal and policy issues surrounding renewable energy. The journal reported on the dynamic and quickly changing developments taking place in Europe and around the world in the renewable energy sector, from bio-energy, solar and wind power to developing technologies like fuel cells and nuclear fusion. These articles may be of interest to energy lawyers and can be linked to from this page. These articles are only available to Lexis®Library subscribers. For a similar list of articles available on Lexis®Library from the Journal of World Energy Law and Business, see Practice Note: Journal of World Energy Law and Business articles. For a similar list of articles available on Lexis®Library from the Utilities Law Review, see Practice Note: The Utilities Law Review articles. Publication Date Article Jurisdiction Brief description of article 1 April 2023 Marine spatial planning

ARCHIVED: This archived Practice Note covers the judicial pension scheme established by the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (known as the Judicial Pension Scheme 1993 (JPS 1993) or JUPRA). It is not maintained. This Practice Note also makes some references to the Judicial Pension Scheme 1981 (JPS 1981). Statutory framework The Judicial Pension Scheme encompasses a number of schemes: • JPS 1981. Salaried judges appointed before 31 March 1995 usually belong to this unfunded final salary scheme, which was established under the Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (JPA 1981) • JUPRA. Salaried judges appointed between 31 March 1995 and 31 March 2015 usually belong to this unfunded final salary scheme, which was established under the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (JPRA 1993). Note that: ◦ there is a right of election to transfer from the JPS 1981 to JUPRA at any time up to a date six months after retirement. For further information, see: Eligibility, below ◦ the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) commenced an options exercise in

Statutory framework The Judicial Pension Scheme encompasses a number of schemes: • the Judicial Pension Scheme 1981 (JPS 1981). Salaried judges appointed before 31 March 1995 usually belong to this unfunded final salary scheme, which was established under the Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (JPA 1981) • the Judicial Pension Scheme 1993 (JPS 1993 or JUPRA). Salaried judges appointed between 31 March 1995 and 31 March 2015 usually belong to this unfunded final salary scheme, which was established under the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (JPRA 1993). Note that: ◦ there is a right of election to transfer from the JPS 1981 to JUPRA at any time up to a date six months after retirement. For more information, see: Eligibility, below ◦ the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) carried out an options exercise in 2023 to allow certain members of the Judicial Pension Scheme 2015 (JPS 2015) to retrospectively choose whether to be a member of JUPRA/FPJPS or the JPS 2015 between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2022 (the remedy period).

Statutory framework The Judicial Pension Scheme 2022 (the JPS 2022) was established by the Judicial Pensions Regulations 2022, SI 2022/319 (the 2022 Regulations). In general, the provisions of the 2022 Regulations take effect from 1 April 2022, although the commencement, interpretation and governance provisions came into force on 18 March 2022, the day after the 2022 Regulations were made, and the provisions relating to sitting in retirement offices came into force on 1 October 2022, when the related provisions of the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (PSPJOA 2022) establishing such offices came into force. The 2022 Regulations are made under the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 (PSPA 2013) and represent the government’s latest attempt to establish a judicial pension scheme applying the principles set out in the report of the Independent Public Service Commission chaired by Lord Hutton which formed the basis for the 2013 reform of public service pensions. They establish a career average revalued earnings scheme for the payment of pensions and other benefits to or in respect of the judiciary

On 10 June 2026, the Justice Committee (the Committee) released its report (the Report) on the Courts and Tribunals Bill (the Bill), which was introduced in response to Sir Brian Leveson’s Independent Review of the Criminal Courts (IRCC). The Committee states the Bill will ‘fundamentally reshape how justice is delivered in England and Wales’. Tiffany Buckley, an associate at Peters & Peters, examines the Committee’s key critiques of the Bill.