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19 December 2025
This article explains the tax context, the practical implications and key issues to address when implementing or modifying arrangements. Background Historically, HMRC treated local authority leisure services as business activities for VAT purposes, on the basis that authorities were not acting as public authorities when providing such services. In 2022, following litigation brought by Local…
Read more18 December 2025
On the 15th August 2024, the Court of Appeal (“CA”) made a ground breaking decision in Providence Building Services Limited v Hexagon Housing Association Limited [2024] EWCA Civ 962: overturning the first instance judgment in the Technology and Construction Court concerning the validity of the termination of the contract. See our article for further information here….
Read more10 December 2025
Sharpe Pritchard, one of the UK’s leading public law firms, has been re-appointed to the London Boroughs’ Legal Alliance (LBLA) Solicitors Panel, a framework valued at up to £60 million over four years, with the option of a one-year extension. What this means for local authorities and public bodies The framework begins on 8 January…
Read more21 November 2025
Award-winning London legal practice Sharpe Pritchard has been appointed as a supplier to the new Orbis Framework in a wide range of areas, including procurement, construction local government, planning, employment and litigation. Orbis is a partnership of the legal services of Brighton & Hove City Council, East Sussex County Council and West Sussex County Council….
Read more13 November 2025
Between December 2024 and February 2025, the Government consulted on proposals to introduce measures to strengthen the standards and conduct regime for local authorities in England. Currently, the standards and conduct framework for local authorities, as set out in the Localism Act 2011, requires every local authority to adopt a code of conduct, which must…
Read more4 November 2025
This article seeks to provide contracting authorities (CAs) with the knowledge and guidance that they need to procure an open framework under the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23). The introduction of the PA23 has given CAs access to new commercial tools designed to make public procurement more flexible, transparent and outcome focused. One such innovation is…
Read more31 October 2025
Sharpe Pritchard LLP acted on behalf of East Sussex County Council in progressing a Compulsory Purchase Order (“CPO”), Side Roads Order and Bridge Scheme to enable the delivery of the Exceat Bridge Replacement Scheme, as confirmed by the Secretary of State for Transport on 7 October 2025. The confirmation of the CPO, together with the…
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