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Providence Building Services Limited v Hexagon Housing Association Limited – The case for a stay

Providence Building Services Limited v Hexagon Housing Association Limited – The case for a stay

Peter Jansen talks readers through the recent Court of Appeal decision to overturn a Technology and Construction Court concerning the validity of the termination of the contract.

December 18, 2025

Providence Building Services Limited v Hexagon Housing Association Limited – The case for a stay

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Court orders quantum disclosure ahead of mediation of claim brought by Kensington & Chelsea over Grenfell fire

December 17, 2025

Administrative Court gives permission for legal challenge over decision by Welsh Government to ban greyhound racing

December 09, 2025

Council vehicles clamped after £138k in unpaid court costs

December 08, 2025

Supreme Court refuses Epping Forest bid to challenge Home Office intervention in asylum hotel proceedings

Dec 02, 2025

Report on administrative justice calls for widening of legal aid means test, introduction of Public Services Ombudsman for England

Dec 02, 2025

Bar Council updates AI guidance, urging barristers to better understand LLMs

Nov 27, 2025

Epping Forest to appeal refusal by High Court judge to grant final injunction in asylum hotel dispute

Nov 26, 2025

CILEX granted permission to appeal Mazur ruling

Nov 25, 2025

Law Society issues practice note on Mazur and the conduct of litigation

Nov 24, 2025

Court of Appeal to hear challenge over grant of planning permission for Wimbledon tennis grounds expansion

Nov 21, 2025

Council hints at appeal bid following High Court refusal of asylum hotel injunction

Nov 20, 2025

Home Office facing fresh legal challenge over new asylum seeker site

Nov 19, 2025

CILEX to seek permission for appeal over Mazur decision on conduct of litigation

Nov 18, 2025

High Court dismisses Coventry City Council challenge to asylum dispersal policy

Nov 14, 2025

Court of Appeal judges call time on “academic” case

Nov 12, 2025

Borough council resolves to take legal action over asylum hotel

Nov 10, 2025

District mulling legal action over plan to place refugees on army base

Nov 06, 2025

Council defeats judicial review challenge by unsuccessful bidder over sale of library building

Nov 06, 2025

Attorney General names six KCs to new Senior Treasury Counsel Group

Nov 06, 2025

Legal Services Board gives green light for CILEx fellows to be able to apply for standalone litigation practice rights

Nov 03, 2025

Council agrees £10m settlement with waste management firm

Oct 31, 2025

Court of Appeal agrees to hear Subsidy Control Act claim over £140m loans made by combined authority to developers

Oct 31, 2025

Court of Appeal says judge was wrong to terminate care proceedings at Issues Resolution Hearing in case with “dreadful history of delay”

Oct 31, 2025

Kensington & Chelsea settles judicial review claim and removes projects consultancy from list of banned suppliers drawn up after Grenfell Inquiry reports

Oct 31, 2025

FDAC is facility that should be “taken seriously” in Government campaign focussing on violence against women and girls: President of the Family Division

Oct 30, 2025

High Court finds inspectors did not err in approach to Green Belt designations for Greater Manchester development plan

Oct 29, 2025

Candidate to pay thousands in costs after failed election petition over dead heat

Oct 23, 2025

Judge finds First-Tier Tribunal ruling did not “cause or require or even permit” council to remove child from roll of special school [clarification]

Oct 23, 2025

Law Society issues practice note on conduct of litigation in light of Mazur ruling

Oct 22, 2025

Court of Appeal refuses permission to appeal village green deletion

Oct 21, 2025

Use of bailiffs by local authorities up by 30% in two years: report

Oct 21, 2025

Consultation on Liberty Protection Safeguards to be launched by Government next year

Oct 20, 2025

Cost of settling clinical negligence claims “more than tripled” in last two decades: National Audit Office

Oct 17, 2025

Law Society updates guidance on greetings to avoid gender-specific terms in legal correspondence

Oct 16, 2025

Legal Services Board calls for regulators to provide clear information in wake of Mazur judgment

Oct 15, 2025

Government call for Supreme Court to overturn Cheshire West ruling on deprivations of liberty prompts furious response from charities

Oct 15, 2025

North West council faces equal pay claims which could amount to “tens of millions”, union warns

Oct 15, 2025

Birmingham settles historic equal pay claims

Oct 14, 2025

Councillors at Welsh local authority drop judicial review over mosque plans

Oct 13, 2025

Councils secure four-year extension to oil protests injunction

Oct 13, 2025

Climate campaigners launch Supreme Court bid over local energy efficiency standards

Oct 09, 2025

Still “too many” incidences of non-compliance with Public Law Outline, Presiding Family Judge for London warns

Oct 07, 2025

It is not permissible for court to “ride two horses” by repeatedly adjourning question of jurisdiction whilst seeking to progress case as if it does have jurisdiction, senior family judge rules

Oct 06, 2025

Must read

Local authority legal teams after Mazur

Local authority legal teams will need to review their practices and work allocation in the wake of Mazur, but there is no need for panic writes Timothy Leader.

Local authority legal teams after Mazur

Features

Judging the use of AI

Judging the use of AI

December 12, 2025

Francesca Whitelaw KC highlights key points from recent guidance and authorities on the use of AI in legal practice.

Costs, detailed assessment and misconduct

Costs, detailed assessment and misconduct

December 12, 2025

A costs judge recently considered - in a case involving a council – the recovery of costs under a consent order, and the impact of pre-commencement conduct by the claimant’s solicitors. Amanda Evans analyses the outcome.

Wolverhampton Traveller injunctions – where are we now?

Wolverhampton Traveller injunctions – where are we now?

November 28, 2025

Two years on from the Supreme Court’s judgment in Wolverhampton, Natalie Pratt looks at how the law relating to Traveller injunctions has developed.

Balancing public interest and planning control – accommodation of asylum seekers

Balancing public interest and planning control – accommodation of asylum seekers

November 28, 2025

The High Court recently refused Epping Forest District Council’s application for a final injunction to restrain an operator from using the Bell Hotel to accommodate asylum seekers. Ifath Nawaz explains why.

Welsh-medium inquests and the death register

Welsh-medium inquests and the death register

Nov 26, 2025

Public Sector High Court Litigation in 2025: Key trends so far

Public Sector High Court Litigation in 2025: Key trends so far

Nov 21, 2025

Dispersal of asylum seekers

Dispersal of asylum seekers

Nov 21, 2025

Reconciling Conflicting Private and Public Interests on Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects

Reconciling Conflicting Private and Public Interests on Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects

Nov 12, 2025

Children law update - October 2025

Children law update - October 2025

Nov 07, 2025

A Lawyer’s Toolkit for Unfair Prejudice Petitions: From Pre-Action to Trial

Oct 31, 2025

The End of “Cheshire West”? Deprivation of Liberty, Consent and Capacity in the Supreme Court

Oct 30, 2025

Independent Social Workers and judicial review

Oct 22, 2025

Navigating DOLS and 17-year-olds not in care

Oct 22, 2025

Phelps v The London Borough of Hillingdon - 25 years on

Oct 22, 2025

Challenges for a local authority prosecutor

Oct 17, 2025

Placement at home under a care order

Oct 17, 2025

May I introduce you to proportionality: Balancing rights and responsibilities in law

Oct 17, 2025

The Welsh Language and the Court of Protection

Oct 17, 2025

Anticipating the reasonableness of responses – time-specific capacity in action

Oct 17, 2025

Deprivations of liberty and young offenders

Oct 17, 2025

Litigation as stewardship: How UK pension funds including LGPS are shaping corporate accountability

Oct 10, 2025

Revisiting Cheshire West

Oct 10, 2025

Public children law case update – Autumn 2025

Oct 10, 2025

Authority to participate in legal proceedings and rights of audience

Oct 06, 2025

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