At the beginning of April 2023, the Department of Health and Social Care announced that the Liberty Protection Safeguards (also known as LPS) will now not be introduced this side of a general election, which is anticipated to be in Autumn 2024. In these videos we consider the most important questions surrounding the current Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards scheme, the main issues the LPS was designed to resolve and the implications for care providers on the LPS not going ahead..

Responding to Innovator feedback, this sustainability support programme session with Yorkshire and Humber AHSN focused on 'How to be confident in your green claims'. 

There has been some commentary on the changes in the NHS pensions access rules which we are aware has caused a great deal of anxiety for primary care networks (PCNs)...

Before 21 July 2022, the law barred the use of agency workers to: (a) cover the work of employees taking part in a lawful strike or other industrial action; or (b) cover the work of staff who had been transferred internally to cover the duties of workers taking part in a strike or other industrial action. This statutory bar was lifted on 21 July 2022, when the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (the ‘2022 regulations’) came into force. On 13 July 2023, the High Court upheld a judicial review challenge and quashed the 2022 regulations (with effect from 10 August 2023)...

As the world faces the pressing challenges of climate change, primary care providers have a vital role to play in reducing their carbon footprint and promoting sustainability. This article explores the legal implications and considerations for primary care providers as they strive towards achieving the net zero carbon emissions target...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published its response to its supplementary consultation on the detail of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) for healthcare services in England...

In this article Michael Woolley looks at the rule against adjudicating the same issue twice in the light of the latest Court of Appeal decision in Sudlows v Global Switch Estates.

Denaxe Ltd v Cooper and another has helped to shed some light in respect of immunity from claims around the sale of assets for receivers and broadly, trustees and insolvency office-holders.

On the day of the Chancellor’s maiden Mansion House speech HM Treasury published a near-final version of the proposed statutory instrument (New SI) that will determine the new Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regime (Public Offers Regime) in the UK. An illustrative version of the statutory instrument was published in December 2022 but following feedback there have been some further changes and these are addressed in the New SI which remains open for comment until 21 August 2023. We note that comments are requested on technical changes only so the substance of what is proposed is unlikely to change...

Welcome to the summer edition of Hill Dickinson’s real estate newsletter, which we hope you will find of interest...

We're pleased to have acted on behalf of DSW Capital plc, the Daresbury-based mid-market, challenger professional services licence network, in connection with the funding to support the management buyout of corporate recovery business Bridgewood Financial Solutions Limited.

We're delighted to have advised Dynamis Associates, a Warrington-based domestic retrofit and renewable energy firm, on the acquisition of Arctica Partners, a pioneering carbon finance business.