This article clarifies where the law currently stands and highlights some factors that decision makers might consider when determining whether a holiday let is a material change of use requiring planning permission.

The UK’s tightening immigration rules now make it harder for those who entered illegally to gain citizenship. New guidance on the "Good Character" requirement, effective from February 2025, introduces stricter assessments, particularly impacting asylum seekers and long-term residents. While some discretion remains, the policy shift could reshape naturalisation for years to come. Read on to understand the implications and what this means for future applicants.

The Procurement Act 2023 and The Procurement Regulations 2024 have now been in effect for six weeks - and what an interesting six weeks they have been!

Serious Fraud Office v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation at appeal, in 2018.

Forfeiture will, in certain circumstances, give a landlord an opportunity to terminate their tenant’s tenancy and recover possession of their land.

Under any type of contract, a party will want to limit to what extent they will be liable to the other party for losses the other party incurs which are attributable to that first party. Logistics contracts are no exception.

Recent case law has increasingly found in favour of validity, particularly where the will has been professionally prepared. The courts’ view appears to be that experienced solicitors would not prepare a will for a person if they feel they did not have capacity or were concerned about their understanding of the same.

Much has been written and discussed about the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill 2020 since its publication in May 2020 and its passage through Parliament at break neck speed.

On 6 April 2021 Practice Direction 57AC (PD57AC) came into force which radically affects the way in which trial witness statements must be prepared in the Business and Property Courts (BPC).

It is now two years since the UK became the first major world economy to pass laws to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to 'net zero' by 2050.