Government Confirms Go-Ahead for Exceat Bridge Replacement Scheme
31 October 2025
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5 September 2025
The High Court has upheld the London Borough of Newham’s Compulsory Purchase Order (‘CPO’) of the final leasehold flat in James Riley Point, a 23-storey residential tower block earmarked for major regeneration. Mr Justice Mould dismissed a legal challenge brought by the leaseholder under section 23 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981. Sharpe Pritchard…
Read more3 July 2024
What is an EPC Rating? An Energy Performance Certificate (‘EPC’) is a document that records a property’s energy efficiency rating using an ‘A’ –‘G’ grading scale where ‘A’ is the most efficient and ‘G’ the least. An EPC provides a detailed picture of a property’s energy efficiency and, since 2012, has been a legal requirement…
Read more4 January 2024
We have had a welcome injection of interest in Employment law, with draft regulations being laid before Parliament on changes to the Equality Act, welcome action on holiday pay, which may be the biggest shakeup of the Working Time Regulations since they were introduced some 25 years ago and also consideration of the TUPE regs….
Read more12 December 2023
What has changed? The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act makes amendments to the Employment Rights Act 1996 (“ERA”) and under the new legislation: Employers must consult with their employees before a flexible working request can be turned down; Employees can make two flexible working requests in any 12-month period -employees are currently only able to…
Read more14 November 2023
Under the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023, which received Royal Assent on 20 July 2023, the Secretary of State has the power to set Minimum Service Levels (MSLs) for “relevant services” in the fields of health, transport, education, fire and rescue, border control, and nuclear decommissioning and radioactive waste management services. We previously wrote…
Read more22 August 2023
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has stepped in again in this controversial arena in this case and has ruled that “the freedom to manifest belief (religious or otherwise) and to express views relating to that belief are essential rights in any democracy”. This is another decision in the fraught tug of war between employees claiming they…
Read more7 August 2023
Unlike in most civil claims, the parties in judicial review proceedings are usually not required to give standard disclosure, unless the court orders otherwise. However, judicial review proceedings are different. In judicial review litigation, parties are subject to a ‘duty of candour’ which requires them to co-operate and make candid disclosure of the relevant facts…
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