HM Treasury Announces Date Of Next Budget

The UK's Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation has released its Annual Review for 2025-2026, revealing significant insights into licence application processing times, investigation trends, and enforcement activities.

Northern Ireland's Assembly has passed legislation establishing a Truth Recovery Public Inquiry into Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses operating between 1922 and 1995. The inquiry faces the complex challenge of building upon extensive prior research while navigating questions of scope, evidence handling, and balancing trauma-informed procedures with legal fairness requirements.

A UK court examines the boundaries of procurement evaluation, addressing when re-moderation is permissible, how evaluators must confine themselves to tender responses, and the critical importance of adhering to conflict of interest mitigation measures in public sector contracting.

The UK Government's decision to pause significant portions of its Local Government Reorganisation programme raises fundamental questions about the legal foundations and future direction of local government reform. With ministers withdrawing previous reorganisation decisions in four counties and pausing proposals in 14 additional areas following updated legal advice, the announcement signals potential challenges to the alignment between legal process and government policy that could reshape or even stall the

The UK Government's decision to establish the Greater Cambridge Development Corporation represents a critical test of institutional capacity to deliver growth in one of Britain's most powerful innovation economies. With Greater Cambridge facing severe constraints from housing costs, transport congestion, and infrastructure limitations despite strong local planning, this centrally-led Urban Development Corporation model aims to provide the stability, powers, and resources needed to coordinate complex infrast

Explore key UK and EU commercial law developments affecting businesses across AI governance, sustainability, consumer protection and industrial policy. This edition covers EU AI Act transparency requirements...

The September 2026 edition of HSF Kramer's NSIP newsletter is now available. This installment of the newsletter ushers in our new approach to covering the most interesting and topical events...

Firms conducting certain activities which do not require full authorisation by the Financial Conduct (FCA) may still need to be registered with the FCA for the purposes of anti-money laundering (AML) supervisio

This weekly update examines recent UK sanctions enforcement actions, including a major alert on the A7 sanctions evasion network, OFSI's penalty against Citibank for Russia sanctions breaches, and the NCA's settlement with an agricultural trading company linked to suspected money laundering. The update also covers new strategic export control statistics and OTSI's annual review revealing 178 reports of potential trade sanctions breaches.

Ecolog concerned a tender exercise carried out by the Ministry of Defence (“MOD”) under the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 (the “2011 Regulations”).