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As a government lawyer your clients are experiencing various impacts on policy making from numerous and competing interests such as austerity, efficiency, collective/individual rights, European and devolved/delegated jurisdictions. Your job advising on legislation and risk of challenge through judicial review is increasingly time consuming and complex.
Brexit
With reform of retained EU law high on the agenda, post-Brexit legal changes remains a key issue. Get key information and updates for all practitioners, with practice area specific Brexit content across the modules.
Judicial Review
We outline the key principles and procedural requirements with a clear focus on the public sector perspective. The content focusses primarily on judicial review in the Administrative Court in England and Wales.
Public Procurement
Failure to stick to procedures can have significant legal, financial and practical consequences for a contracting authority. We guide you through various processes, focussing on the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
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Latest Public Law News
This round-up includes details of publications made by Specialised Committees established by the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) for the...
The Lords Select Committee on the Constitution has published its fifth report of session 2024–2025 on the (Hereditary Peers) Bill. The report covers...
A round-up of key developments on State aid, first reported by the Lexis+ Competition team. This update covers the period 11 December 2024 –  17...
The House of Lords European Affairs Committee held an evidence session with Ministers Stephen Doughty and Nick Thomas-Symonds to discuss the...
The Department for Education (DfE) has introduced the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill to Parliament. Key measures include establishing registers...
Latest Public Law Practice Notes
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Electronic signaturesThis Practice Note describes the law of electronic signatures (also known as digital signatures, e-signatures, E-Signatures,...
Mistake in contract lawThis Practice Note considers the legal concept of mistake in contract law. It examines common mistake, mutual mistake,...
Data protection toolkitWe have produced a toolkit that collates key practical guidance on the specific legal and practical implications of data...
Summary of ICO strategy 2022–2025 (ICO25)In October 2022, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published its three-year strategic plan covering...
Latest Public Law Precedents
UK GDPR—training materialsThese training materials consist of template PowerPoint slides that can be used as the basis of one or more training...
IP evaluation and option agreement—pro-licenseeThis Agreement is made on [insert date]Parties1[insert licensor name] [of OR a [company OR partnership...
IP evaluation and option agreement—pro-licensorThis Agreement is made on [insert date]Parties1[insert licensor name] [of OR a [company OR partnership...
Personal data sharing schedule—controller to controller—pro-disclosing partyDefined terms: This precedent schedule uses the additional defined terms...
Letter of success after pre-qualification phase—restricted and competitive dialogue procedures, competitive procedure with negotiation and innovation...
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Methods of statutory interpretation used to resolve disputes about the meaning of legislation
Methods of statutory interpretation used to resolve disputes about the meaning of legislationIntroduction to statutory interpretationThe aim of...
Sources of constitutional law
Sources of constitutional lawIn briefThe British constitution is unwritten in the sense that it does not derive from a single constitutional text. It...
Direct effect of EU law
Direct effect of EU lawWhat is direct effect of EU law?The doctrine of direct effect is a fundamental principle of EU law developed by the Court of...
Convention rights—structure of qualified rights
Convention rights—structure of qualified rightsThe rights preserved under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as set out in the Human...
Separation of powers—legislative, executive and judiciary
Separation of powers—legislative, executive and judiciarySource of the doctrine of the separation of powersThe origins of the doctrine of the...
What is a public authority?
What is a public authority?There is no single, universal answer to the question whether a particular organisation is treated, in law, as a public...
Structure and functions of EU institutions and bodies
Structure and functions of EU institutions and bodiesThe EU’s unique institutional frameworkThe European Union is a supranational polity, and is...
Harmonisation
HarmonisationDefinitionHarmonisation, also known as standardisation or approximation, refers to the determination of EU-wide legally binding standards...
What is fettering of discretion in judicial review? When is it an actionable ground of challenge and what must be established for a challenge to succeed?
The status of EU law in the UK after Brexit [Archived]
The status of EU law in the UK after Brexit [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained.This Practice Note provides...
Indirect effect of EU law
Indirect effect of EU lawWhat is indirect effect of EU law?The doctrine of indirect effect, or consistent interpretation, is a duty that national...
What is Wednesbury unreasonableness?
Parliamentary supremacy—implied repeal
Parliamentary supremacy—implied repealEssential to Parliament’s legislative supremacy is the principle that Parliament is not bound by its...
The executive and the civil service
The executive and the civil serviceWhat is a civil servant?A civil servant is any permanent, non-political employee of central government—servants of...
What is the EU infringement procedure under Article 258 TFEU and how can proceedings be monitored?
EU internal competence
EU internal competenceThe limits of EU competencesThe limits of EU competences are governed by the principle of conferral (also known as principle of...
Free movement of EU workers and citizens
Free movement of EU workers and citizensEU workers and EU citizens enjoy the right of freedom of movement. This right is granted to EU workers in...
The four freedoms—goods, services, establishment and capital
The four freedoms—goods, services, establishment and capitalFree movement of goodsRestriction on importsScope of the prohibitionArticle 34 of the...
Associated legal terms
Discounted Cashflow
Valuation method assessing the net present value of future cashflows.
Preferred return
This is the minimum amount of return that must be achieved for investors before the carried interest partner is entitled to carried interest (on behalf of the executives). The preferred return ensures that the carried interest partner shares in the profits of the partnership only after investments have performed well.
Scheme specific funding
Formal name for the framework which governs how an actuarial valuation must be carried out.
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