The Planning Act infrastructure consenting regime is compulsory for sixteen types of infrastructure, for projects above a certain size threshold in

CIOs are a new legal form of charity, introduced by the Charities Act 2006, but which are only now being brought into effect. They are an

On 3 December 2012, the Government published its interim response to Lord Hodgson's Report on his review of the operation of the Charities Act 2006

Yesterday, the House of Commons considered the amendments to the Bill that had been made in the House of Lords - the two houses have to agree on the

In February 2012, HMRC published amended guidance relating to the declarations donors must make if they want their donation to charity to benefit

. Building Information Modelling, or BIM, is something that you may be familiar with already or it may just be on the edge of your consciousness but

The Finance Act 2012 sets out the carefully defined and narrow circumstances in which independent entities which make exempt supplies or carry on

The Finance Act 2012 formalised the Government's 2011 budget proposal to encourage legacies to charity. This is achieved by reducing the rate of

The abiding memory of 2012 for many in the UK will be the rousing success of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics both in terms of hosting the

When making financial orders on divorce (or dissolution of civil partnership), the court exercises a wide discretion. The court is specifically

Yesterday, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change refused the application for the Preesall underground gas storage project in

Squatting has always been a contentious subject for discussion, whether you have been the unfortunate victim of squatters taking up residence in your

Winter has yet to wrestle its grip on summer. Something else that seems not to change is the Government's propensity to issue changes to the

Against a backdrop of rising youth unemployment, higher tuition fees and a shortage of vocational training opportunities, there is a strong push by

The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) was published on 27 March 2012, just over a year ago. It replaced thousands of pages of guidance with

The current statutory scheme for checking criminal records requires the blanket disclosure of all spent warnings, convictions and cautions in

In Stringfellows Restaurants Ltd v Quashie, the Court of Appeal has reinstated the Employment Tribunal's decision that a lap dancer was self-employed

From the summer of 2013, the cap on the compensatory award for unfair dismissal will be the lower of £74,200 and one year's pay. Although the change

Following Patrick McLoughlin's January announcement of preferred routes for lines to Manchester and Leeds, and with a major public consultation on

In order to qualify as 'disabled' under the Equality Act 2010, an employee must have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and