In December 2016, the new Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Dunham, announced that the ICO would be preparing a report for Parliament this year on whether companies who provide outsourced services to local authorities should also be subject to the Freedom of Information 2000 Act (FOIA).
The Commissioner’s focus is on transparency and in her speech to the Freedom of Information at
The planning law team at Sharpe Pritchard will be presenting a training seminar, ‘Planning Tips and Update (2)’, on behalf of EM LawShare. Partners Denise Stephenson and Brian Hurwitz will be joined by Kathryn Lawrance and Andrew Shaw of Bevan Brittan to present the seminar in Nottingham at 9.30am on 31 January. The intermediate level,
The intermediate level, half-day course
How (Not) To Evaluate Tenders in a Public Procurement: Energysolutions EU Ltd v Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (2016) – Landmark Case Report
On 29 July 2016, the High Court handed down its judgment in one of the most high-profile and important public procurement cases in recent years, Energysolutions EU Ltd v Nuclear Decommissioning Authority [2016] EWHC. This case concerns various claims
Case: Holt v Attorney General [2014] UKPC 4 (19/2/14)
Client: Attorney General of the Isle of Man (Respondent)
Court: Privy Council
Solicitor: William Rose
Result: Appeal allowed, convictions to be quashed
The appeal to the Privy Council was against the conviction of a young advocate for money laundering and making false documents.
The prosecution involved the arrangement for a transfer
Regulation 113(2) of the new Public Contracts Regulations 2015 requires all public contracts (other than health care contracts falling under the NHS Regulations 2013, and contracts awarded by maintained schools/Academies) to include provisions which require:
Regulation 73(1) of the new Public Contracts Regulations 2015 requires contracting authorities to include in every public contract which they award, provisions allowing the authority to terminate the contract where any one of three grounds apply – in summary these are (a) material contract amendment which ought to have been subject to a new procurement, (b) Contractor ought to have
