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Modular build often provides for milestone payments. It can make sense – the modular contractor can, for instance, incur up-front costs in developing a prototype product which the paying party does not want to pay for until it can see something tangible...

NHS England’s People Officer, Prerana Issar has signalled a step change in hospital disciplinary procedures urging NHS organisations to review their polices in line with the new national guidance and refresh them annually, if required...

The year 2020 started with an avian flu outbreak and it looks like it will be ending with one. ..

In what is possibly the first decision of its kind, an employment tribunal has decided that an employee with range of common menopausal symptoms was entitled to the protection of the Equality Act as a disabled person...

The regulator of higher education in England, the Office for Students, published its annual review on 3 December 2020.

A new decision raises wide ranging implications for the treatment of children with gender dysphoria. The High Court has recently given a landmark decision in relation to the treatment of young people with “puberty blocking” medication...

The Fundraising Regulator has published a couple of interesting reports recently...

A recent ruling from the Employment Appeal tribunal is a reminder that, where a business does not close completely, the statutory definition of redundancy focuses on the number of employees required to do work of a particular kind...

The Department of Health and Social Care has published its third LPS newsletter updating Liberty Protection Safeguard stakeholders of key updates regarding the progress on implementation of LPS...

The review follows a commitment by the Conservative party in their 2019 manifesto to 'update' administrative law to 'ensure that there is a proper balance between the rights of individuals and effective government' and...

The changes to individual and organisational behaviour resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic leave a number of questions about what the long term consequences might be across many areas.

The Government has announced that owners of flats in buildings without cladding will no longer need an EWS1 form to sell or re-mortgage their property following an agreement with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, UK Finance and the Building Societies Association...