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3 February

As many of us may know already, local authorities that run their own leisure facilities have, since March 2023, had some very good news from Government, confirming that leisure services... Read More

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25 September

The Court of Appeal has ruled that commercial insurance policies containing cover for notifiable disease outbreaks ‘at the premises’ should pay out for losses incurred through Covid-19 restrictions, in an... Read More

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12 September

The Charity Commission has issued a regulatory alert following several cases where local authorities breached their duties as charity trustees. Read More

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17 July

Much of the coverage of the changes being brought in by the Procurement Act 2023 focuses on the competitive tendering procedures which precede the award of public contracts. Less attention... Read More

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25 April

Can you exclude a non-compliant bid from a tender process? We look at a recent case that examined the lawfulness of rejecting a bid on the grounds of non-compliance with the... Read More

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8 February

The road to the Procurement Act 2023 was certainly long and winding and whilst the Procurement Bill received the long-awaited Royal Assent in October 2023, procurement practitioners are not home... Read More

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13 October

To coincide with the start of the first Preliminary Hearing for Module 1 of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, we are launching a series of articles delving into public inquiries. In... Read More

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30 September

We have previously discussed Charging Orders as a route for Local Authorities to take for debt recovery. In this article, we discuss the limitation period on these Charging Orders and... Read More

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29 June

Blake Morgan Partner Paul Caldicott looks at the changes that have come into force on Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery (CRAR) due to COVID-19. This article was first published in IRRV... Read More

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23 June

The public sector has a key role to play, not just as a place shaper, but also in how it meets the pressing need for environmental change. Many local authorities... Read More

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26 May

It's been a rocky old road for local authority leisure operators these last two years, and they're not out of the woods yet. Despite a challenging market, activity has continued. These... Read More

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18 May

As we know, the Employment Bill pledged in 2019 was not announced in the recent Queen's Speech. Does this mean many proposals may not be carried forward at all, and,... Read More