The tracker is a guide to the progress of Bills going through the UK Parliament that affect commercial organisations. It also lists some Statutory Instruments.

The tracker is a guide to the progress of Bills going through the UK Parliament that affect commercial organisations. It also lists some Statutory Instruments.

On 2 March 2012, WIDP (Waste Infrastructure Delivery Programme) published a document for consultation that offers guidance to local authorities that are currently undertaking the procurement of, or that are already managing, residual waste PFI / PPP contracts.

The UK Border Agency has recently issued new guidance for employers on the Prevention of Illegal Working.

As this is the second consecutive month that the quota has been reached (and this time much earlier in the month) we anticipate that this is likely to be the pattern going forward with a real possibility that the backlog may mean that no new applications will be processed from early in the New Year.

The FSA released its second consultation paper on Solvency II transposition (click here to view) on 11 July 2012.

The Dwelling Houses (Execution of Possession Orders by Mortgagees) Regulations 2010 come into force on 1 October 2010.

The Inner House of the Court of Session (Scotland’s civil appeal court) has unanimously upheld an appeal against the previous dismissal of the Scottish Lion Scheme of Arrangement and has remitted the petition back to the first instance Judge, Lord Glennie.

We are writing to update you on the Test Achats case, which might be of interest to you and your firm.

Registration of .XXX top-level domains, specifically for adult-oriented websites, will be launched on 7 September 2011.

Following a consultation of interested parties, the European Commission has published proposals to extend the term of copyright protection for sound recordings and improve protection provided to performers and session musicians.

The UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) have undertaken a review of their spectrum pricing policy and methodology, covering fees based on administered incentive pricing (AIP) and administrative fee based cost recovery.

The Press Complaints Commission’s annual report published last week asserted that it was the preferred forum for dealing with breaches of privacy by the press.

The Technology Annual Review contains short, easy to read articles on topics of interest over the last year, presented on a month-by-month basis.

It seems the stuff of science fiction and Hollywood – satellites crashing to Earth – but rather this is the result of years of scientific and commercial ventures in outer space, and the subsequent creation of space junk.

The Information Commissioner has announced, today, that employees of a major mobile telephone company have unlawfully sold thousands of customer account details, including contract expiry dates, to the company's competitors.

The word "house" is one of the 200 most frequently used words in the English language and one of the 20 most frequently used nouns.

A decision in September 2010 caused great concern for developers who either ignored or were unable to resolve rights of light issues before beginning a development.

A Court of Appeal decision from last Thursday confirms that to be effective "pay-when-paid" clauses in construction contracts need to be drafted to identify the specific types of insolvency situation where the clause will operate.

The Gloucestershire Local Enterprise Partnership was this week announced as a retail pathfinder by Business Minister Mark Prisk.