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Digital technology is now firmly embedded in social care, spanning AI-enabled care planning and falls detection through to remote monitoring and electronic care records, with providers using technology to improve quality, support staff and respond to increasing demand. However, as care becomes more digital, it also becomes more data-driven, changing the provider’s risk profile, rather than removing risk entirely.

The High Court’s ruling in Crest Nicholson Regeneration Ltd v Ardmore Construction Ltd (in administration) and others [2026] EWHC 789 (TCC), together with the court's subsequent refusal to grant permission to appeal [2026] EWHC 1069 (TCC), is a landmark decision on the scope and operation of Building Liability Orders (BLOs) under the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA).

For insurers and claims teams, jurisdiction is no longer a routine procedural step. It has become a key strategic issue that can influence the direction, cost, and complexity of a claim. The big change English courts now apply the common law test derived from Spiliada Maritime Corp v Cansulex Ltd [1987] AC 460. In simple terms, the court asks where the claim can most appropriately and practically be heard. There is no longer a rigid framework.

The Consultation follows the call for evidence that was published in June 2025. The statement of safety principles (SoSP) is a key requirement to getting automated vehicles (AVs) on our roads and getting the SoSP right is vital. The Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 (AEVA) allowed the Secretary of State, at their own discretion, to list vehicle as AVs. Only once listed as an AV would the vehicle be able to operate legally on the roads in the UK, and, as yet, no vehicles are listed.

Scope of compensable damage The Order provides compensation for certain categories of malicious or unlawful damage to property, including: Damage to buildings and other property caused by riotous or unlawful assemblies (three or more persons), or maliciously by persons acting in connection with unlawful associations (including terrorism) Damage to agricultural property, including buildings, livestock, crops and machinery, where caused maliciously or deliberately Damage to certain charitable...

In the 2003 case of Three Rivers (No.5) the Court of Appeal held that the client, for the purposes of applying legal advice privilege, is the group of employees and agents authorised to seek and receive legal advice on behalf of the company (i.e. the "Client Group"). This meant that communications between this Client Group and its lawyers benefit from legal advice privilege. However, communications between the Client Group and other employees and agents of the company are not generally privileged.

The part of the guidance entitled "Preparing your data" now includes a section headed "Recording employees' sex", which specifies that as the gender pay reporting regulations are made under the EqA, gender pay gap reporting must be based on employees' biological sex.

S111A makes evidence of pre-termination negotiations inadmissible in ordinary unfair dismissal claims. However, where the tribunal regards anything said or done to be improper, or to be connected with improper behaviour, inadmissibility only applies to the extent the tribunal considers this just. This is different from without prejudice protection, which shields employers from all claims but requires a dispute before the protection applies.

In direct discrimination claims there is a two stage test for the burden of proof: First, the employee must show facts from which the tribunal could decide, in the absence of any other explanation, that there was discrimination. If the employee can show possible discrimination then the burden of proof shifts to the employer to prove it did not discriminate. Miss Parker, who is not Catholic, was employed as the Head of Finance for Clifton Diocese.

The claimant, Mr Ignatowicz, was employed as a warehouse employee for DHL Services Limited from March 2017. In April 2023, he unsuccessfully applied for an internal administrative role. Following that process, he raised a grievance about the recruitment process. On 6 June 2023, the claimant posted that grievance on his Facebook account along with additional commentary that "capitalist dictatorship is evil and has to be destroyed".