19 Dec, 2024 Spotlight on reporting privilege By Pauline Lépissier On 13 December 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down a judgment in Iqbal v Geo TV [2024] EWCA Civ 1566 considering in some detail the...
18 Dec, 2024 Homes England publishes ‘clearance’ database of Section 106 affordable housing sites By Ben Halsey Triya Maicha Jonathan Corris Jonathan Jarvis +1 more... Show less Homes England (HE) has now made available the Section 106 Affordable Housing Clearing Service, which is a database (or what some are...
11 Dec, 2024 Top Tips: handling negative press By Nikki Bowker It is easy to think of recent examples of people/organisations handling negative press poorly, in a way that has served only to worsen...
30 Oct, 2024 Budget: Well that was a surprise (only joking) By Neil Toner Rachel Reeves has just delivered Labour’s first budget for over 14 years. And, whilst it contained some very significant tax changes and...
02 Oct, 2024 Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund, Wave 3 and Subsidy Control Compliance By Joanna Bouloux Jonathan Jarvis Applications for the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund (formerly known as the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (the “Fund”)), Wave 3...
19 Sep, 2024 The Procurement Act 2023 – shining a spotlight on supplier poor performance By Nikki Bowker The new Act places a spotlight on supplier poor performance in a number of ways: Lower threshold in respect of poor performance to...
24 Jul, 2024 New Shared Ownership affordability guidance: Are you ready for 31 July? By Narin Masera Samantha Grix On 31 July 2024, the transitional period for implementation of the updated Affordability Guidance for shared ownership in Part 6B of the...
24 Jul, 2024 Consumer Duty: days to go! By Alice Overton With just a week to go until the final deadline for implementation of the final stage of the FCA's Consumer Duty, here is a reminder of...
01 Jul, 2024 Are RPs geared up to deal with inquests? By Samantha Grix The answer to the above question is all too often ‘no’ and is something that needs consideration. Fiona Underwood of Altair and I have...
05 Jun, 2024 Shared Ownership and section 166 Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 By Jatinder Bhamber Mark Foxcroft Shared ownership is in the spotlight again following the recent judgment in the County Court case of Sovereign Network Homes v Ms Vanessa...
03 Jun, 2024 New UK legislation to compensate victims of Push Payment scams By Matthew Garbutt Authorised Push Payment ("APP") fraud occurs when fraudsters trick individuals or businesses into authorising a payment to an account...
03 Apr, 2024 Procurement Act 2023: New draft Procurement Regulations and Guidance published By Kris Kelliher Following its consultation process the Government has now published the draft Procurement Regulations 2024 implementing certain aspects...