10/7/2025 3:45:59 PM FCA Skilled Person Reviews: What Regulated Firms Need to Know By Matthew Garbutt The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has the power to appoint independent “skilled persons” to examine how regulated firms conduct their...
10/2/2025 8:35:55 AM The Competence & Conduct Standard cometh By Kirsty Thompson Following consultation which closed 18 months ago, the Government has now issued a direction to the Regulator of Social Housing to set a...
9/30/2025 9:20:34 AM Q&A with Nicola Evans L&Q By Nikki Bowker Nikki Bowker of Devonshires recently sat down with Nicola Evans who kindly agreed to answer some questions around L&Q’s first tenancy...
9/19/2025 8:57:23 AM Joint plan to accelerate the remediation of social housing By Matthew Cocklin Alicia Ogborn Bethany Penman In August 2025, the Government published its joint plan to accelerate the remediation of social housing (“the Joint Plan”). The Joint...
9/16/2025 11:27:48 AM Awaab’s Law – A Timely Refresher for Social Landlords By Ben Tarbard Baljit Basra Kerri Harrison Awaab’s Law – A Timely Refresher for Social Landlords With just over a month until Phase 1 of Awaab’s Law takes effect on 27 October...
9/12/2025 4:11:37 PM Devonshires and Five Paper host joint conference on the changing legislative environment housing providers are facing By Mark Foxcroft Rebecca Brady On Thursday 11 September, we were delighted to jointly host a conference with Five Paper: “Risks and Opportunities for Housing Providers...
9/9/2025 12:56:31 PM When nomination process affects adjudication enforcement: RNJM Limited v Purpose Social Homes Limited By Kathryn Kligerman Will O'Brien Holly Mason In RNJM Limited v Purpose Social Homes Limited [2025] EWHC 2224 (TCC), a respondent to an application for enforcement of an adjudicator’s...
9/8/2025 9:14:54 AM ECCTA in Practice: How Company Secretaries Must Adapt to the New Rules By Chantelle Adadevoh The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) received royal assent on 26 October 2023. ECCTA serves as an essential...
8/28/2025 8:04:57 AM Social Housing publishes article: “Leasehold reform: implications for social housing providers” By Mark Foxcroft I have recently featured in Social Housing, writing an article on “Leasehold reform: implications for social housing providers” . My...
8/21/2025 1:07:41 PM No one size fits all: grant of injunction to prevent planning breach By Will O'Brien Hannah Langford Camilla Weston The law provides that the Court must carefully undertake a balancing exercise on the facts when a local planning authority applies to...
8/19/2025 10:47:36 AM Lessons from VMA Services Ltd v Project One London Ltd [2025] EWHC 1815 (TCC) By James Mapley Lucy Ferebee Can a party avoid paying a Notified Sum awarded in a ‘smash and grab’ adjudication by commencing its own ‘true value’ adjudication? ...
8/12/2025 3:02:13 PM New Welsh Regulatory Framework By Gemma Bell A revised version of the Welsh Government’s Regulatory Framework for Welsh Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) was issued yesterday (11...