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Since March 2022, the Bill has ping ponged between the House of Lords and the House of Commons, but has now been passed into law...

Universities continue to face industrial action. One of UCU’s ‘four fights’ is anti-casualisation with UCU seeking an end to ‘precarious’ contracts...

The Office for Students has introduced new ‘conditions of registration’ relating to quality and standards in higher education in England...

The High Court has confirmed that charity trustees have a discretion to exclude investments which they reasonably believe are in conflict with their charity’s purposes...

The Skills and Post-16 Education Bill received Royal Assent on 28 April 2022.

In March 2022, the Court of Appeal reversed an Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling which extended the scope of legal provisions protecting workers from being subject to a detriment for taking part the activities of an independent trade union.

The Infrastructure and Projects Authority has recently issued guidance to contracting authorities on how to prepare for and manage expiry of Private Finance Initiative projects...

On Monday 25 April 2022 a motion was passed in the House of Commons to “carry over” the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill to the next session of Parliament...

The Nationality and Borders Bill is the Government’s proposed legislation to overhaul the UK’s asylum system...

The Government has confirmed that it intends to develop legislation "at the earliest opportunity" to introduce a 'protect duty' which is likely to create a legal requirement for those owning, operating or responsible for certain publicly accessible places to take steps to protect the public from terrorist attack at those locations...

The High Court has taken the unusual step of granting an application for strike out in judicial review proceedings, which has highlighted the fact that judicial review does not exist to decide claims that have become academic...

The Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (“the Bill”) provides for the creation of a high risk scientific research funding body. This new agency is modelled on the American research and development agency...