Blog archive

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...

The Information Commissioner’s Office has launched a consultation on how it regulates the laws it monitors and enforces. The regulator is seeking views on three documents which together set out how the ICO aims to carry out its commitment to uphold information rights for the UK public in the digital age...

A consultation on proposals to reform the Human Rights Act 1998 and replace it with a Bill of Rights...

Mandatory vaccination came into force for care home staff in November last year and was due to be introduced for frontline NHS and wider social care staff in regulated settings from 1 April...

The Government has recently signalled that its future legislative programme will include a “Brexit Freedoms Bill”...

The MHRA has launched an eight- week consultation on proposals for legislative changes for clinical trials...

Continuous professional development in adult safeguarding practice is essential and now more than ever, as many health and social work professionals will have seen an increase in referrals exacerbated by the pandemic...

The student sponsorship system (and its predecessor the Tier 4 regime) has for several years formed part of the framework of measures and legislation which the Home Office and UK Visas and Immigration use to implement and oversee UK immigration controls...

The High Court has granted an injunction to prevent Tesco from using fire and re-hire to change terms and conditions...

We look at the Good Machine Learning Practice guidance for medical devices drawn up jointly by regulators in the US, Canada and the UK.

Gary Smith's holiday pay claim against Pimlico Plumbers has finally succeeded at the Court of Appeal...

Health and care providers – and care homes in England - will be taking stock of the Government’s announcement that legislation requiring vaccination as a condition of deployment will be revoked...