Today, the Secretary of State for Transport launched a brief (6 week) consultation on new criteria for the sale of major trust ports into the private sector under the Ports Act 1991 (see here).

The Home Office has decided to consult the public on the fees it charges in the area of immigration.

As many of you will already know, the Home Office has brought in a new fee of £55 for applications for residence documents by European nationals and their family members living in the UK.

The Care Quality Commission was forced to disclose names of senior officials alleged to have been involved in the cover-up of failures over deaths of babies at a Cumbria Hospital.

We have news on the non dom changes at last. Where once there was speculation, since yesterday, we can now utter the word ‘certainty'.

Plans to co-opt landlords into the immigration enforcement system, by making them liable to a fine if they do not undertake sufficient immigration checks on their tenants have certainly grabbed the headlines in recent weeks.

It has now been announced that, following Day 7 next Tuesday, the Committee stage will continue the following day, 19 January, and then provisionally for a 9th day on Monday 24 January, with no further provision made in the future business announced up to 3 February.

In these difficult times, many will have noted HMRC's increasingly aggressive approach to tax collection. With the benefit of significantly enhanced powers to help the regulator maximise the tax take.

A series of changes to the taxation of individuals who resident in the UK but domiciled outside the UK, so called resident non-doms (RNDs) which came into force from 6 April 2017...

John Hurdley, Partner at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP believes that the UK's regulatory regimes which regulate utilities and other infrastructure providers, allow the Chancellor, George Osbourne to confidently call for more Asian investment in the UK.

Tom Henderson, Senior Associate at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP is warning UK hauliers, bus operators and local authorities to plan for the fact that low emission zones in UK towns and cities are likely to become a reality as the Government aims to reach its 2015 air quality targets.

In the recently published Energy National Policy Statements, the Government has not taken on board the recommendations of the Climate Change Committee to have explicit decarbonisation goals in the Energy NPSs.

The latest proposal to fundamentally change the NHS Reform Bill now it has almost passed through the Commons is no way to make law believes Nick Maltby, partner, Bircham Dyson Bell LLP.

The Government's Localism Bill has received royal assent, devolving power from central government and local authorities to local people.

Penny Bygrave, solicitor at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP is warning businesses in the wake of Kingspan Environmental Limited & Others v Borealis A/S and Borealis UK Limited, to consider whether they have clarity on what law governs both contractual and non-contractual claims in an international contract as other legal systems may not provide the same protection to them as English law

Jennifer Chappel believes that the case of Trustees of Beardsley Theobalds Retirement Benefit Scheme v J Yardley is a warning to landlords.

Jennifer Chappell, associate at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP, believes that unless the government reassesses the business rates rise of 5.6% in April 2012.

The Government's Localism Bill which commentators suggest might make any fields, paddocks or buildings regularly used by the public 'community assets' may have the wrong focus argues Angus Walker, planning partner, Bircham Dyson Bell LLP.

There have been few upsides to a depressed property market, but John Stephenson, senior partner at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP believes that the market has given landlords the ability to reshape their property portfolios to fit the social changes in the UK.

Helen Matthews, Consultant at Bircham Dyson Bell LLP, explains the changes to the rules regarding tenancy deposit schemes ("TDSs") which took effect on 6 April 2012