The UK's clean energy transition is accelerating with renewable capacity coming online at scale, but the gap between political ambition and commercial reality is creating complex legal challenges for businesses and investors building, financing and acquiring clean energy assets. Three structural shifts—electric vehicle adoption, data centre expansion, and battery storage maturation—are simultaneously driving demand...

The draft Finance Bill for 2025-26 was published on 21 July. In this article, we set out the key inheritance tax (IHT) measures in relation to agricultural and business assets included in the bill.

We are pleased to share the Autumn edition of our quarterly regulatory update, prepared by our specialist food and drink team.

The House of Lords has twice recently been asked to give its opinion on this most difficult and morally perplexing matter.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Genomics England have initiated a major study into the potential serious side effects associated with popular weight loss medications...

The claim was brought by 176 former clients of White & Co against them and their professional indemnity insurer, Allianz, pursuant to the Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010.

Insurers are being asked to pay significantly increasing sums on a per claim basis by credit hire agencies, according to leading insurance law firm Browne Jacobson.

Brand owners have a number of possible ways of “recovering” from cyber-squatters, domain names that incorporate their trade marks.

As Chancellor Rachel Reeves prepares to deliver the 2025 Autumn Budget on 26 November, the announcement represents a pivotal moment for businesses, investors and high-net-worth...

The new Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) was created following the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 and is set to completely revolutionise how employers in the care sector recruit their staff.

On Friday 4 July 2008 the Health and Safety (Offences) Bill successfully passed through its second reading in the House of Lords and, if it continues unopposed, could in theory reach the statute books in the new year.

The UK's medicines regulator has published findings from a major consultation on AI in healthcare, revealing widespread calls for regulatory reform. With 761 responses highlighting critical gaps in liability frameworks, post-market surveillance, and data governance, the healthcare sector faces fundamental questions about who bears responsibility when AI-enabled medical devices fail in clinical settings.

In tough times ‘cash is king’. Deterring late payers is one way of improving cash flow. Since 2002, businesses of any size have been able to charge penal interest on unpaid invoices under late payment legislation.

Our retail and hospitality team review the potential changes to business rates, import duties and the impact this Budget could have on consumer confidence in the golden quarter.

Identity verification (IDV) is being introduced for academy trusts to comply with the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023.

Mr Lutz, a pilot, applied to Ryanair to become a directly employed pilot. Rather than offering him a job as an employee, Ryanair instead offered Mr Lutz a role as a consultant through an agency.

The UK may have left the EU but with companies acting globally, it's essential to keep up to date with international developments.

The Department of Health and Social Care has launched a consultation on proposals to ban the sale of high caffeine energy drinks to children under 16 in England.

The recent incident involving an OpenAI agent breaching AI platform Hugging Face has sent a clear signal to the insurance market: agentic AI risk is no longer theoretical. It is operational, it is here, and it is moving faster than the frameworks designed to manage it.

We are seeing an uptick in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in business; companies and organisations are adopting routine use of AI bots and increasing integration of AI into standard practices.