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FinTech By Tim Ryan What is a Collection? A Collection is a selection of features, articles, comments and opinions on any given theme or topic. It allows you to stay up-to-date with what interests you most, by collecting everything into useful packages. A Collection…
TMT, software, tech projects and outsourcing By Tim Ryan The current decade has seen 'outsourcing' evolve into 'strategic sourcing' as the efficiency gains and other benefits of entrusting an organisations non-core functions to vendors are more open to question and scrutiny: whether you are looking at a…
Abusive Collateral Attack in a civil context: The Test By Martin Paxton The Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Terry Allsop-v-Banner Jones Ltd, Rae Cohen has clarified the test to apply in cases where a party seeks to strike out a claim as an abuse of process on the basis that it forms a collateral attack on an…
The future patient experience and what this means for infrastructure By Stan Campbell As the future patient experience continues to change in response to general trends such as technological evolution, and in response to the more immediate short-term impacts of the pandemic, infrastructure must adapt to ensure it facilitates the…
DACB’s 2021 Construction look ahead By Mark Roach 1. Covid Whilst the coronavirus has dominated the headlines and the vaccination programme is underway, numerous pieces of legislation have been passed to deal with this unique situation. Given the inherent curb on civil liberties (social…
Remote Mental Health Act Assessments to Stop with Immediate Effect By Gill Weatherill The Court has now considered the question of whether Mental Health Act assessments by AMHPs and medical practitioners can be carried out remotely (e.g. via video) - see Devon Partnership NHS Trust v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care .
Getting It Right First Time (“GIRFT”) publishes clinical practice guide for improving the management of adult COVID-19 patients in secondary care By Heather Durston-Hillyer GIRFT aims to help to improve the quality of care provided by the NHS by reducing variations in the way that healthcare is provided across Trusts. As part of their ongoing programme the GIRFT team have recently published their “Clinical Practice…
Housebuilder Top Tip: Biodiversity Net Gain and the Environmental Bill By Simon Curran Biodiversity net gain is an approach to development that aims to leave the natural environment in a measurably better state than previously found. A number of Local Planning Authorities have incorporated this approach into their Local Plans, but the…
Real Estate Tip of the Week: Too vacant to satisfy vacant possession condition! By Tom Everson A tenant option to break a lease is commonly made conditional on specified requirements being satisfied prior to the relevant break date. For example, a tenant break option may be conditional on there being no arrears of annual rent on the break…
NHSX publishes Template Data Sharing Agreement By Darryn Hale On 18 December 2020 NHSX, in their role to drive digital transformation in the health and social care sectors, published its template Data Sharing Agreement (“ DSA ”) which can be used by all health and care organisations to document data sharing…
Hart v Large: Should surveyors be concerned? By Duncan Greenwood The first instance decision in Hart v Large last year caused concern to the surveying profession and their insurers due to the assessment of loss and the deviation from the usual assessment of damages in a claim arising out of a negligent survey. …
Health on the High Street By Christopher Stanwell The report, “Health on the High Street” resulted from a round table event hosted by the Social Market Foundation and supported by DAC Beachcroft. We are grateful to attendees from local and central government, the planning community and commercial…