

28 August 2015
Small Business Enterprise and Employment Act Alert: further delay of provisional implementation timetable - August 2015
The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Act) received Royal Assent on 26 March 2015. Implementation of Parts 7 and 8 of the Act (being those parts of the Act that deal with the corporate aspects and changes to the Companies Act 200...

7 August 2015
S.M.A.R.T. meter implementation - 7 August 2015
Has the Government followed S.M.A.R.T. objectives when designing the smart meter roll-out programme?

4 August 2015
Energy policy
On 18th November, DECC Secretary of State Amber Rudd gave a keynote speech at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London, and then summarised it in a Written Statement to Parliament. It is billed as "a new direction for UK energy policy". So whi...

27 July 2015
Applications for Payment and Default Payment Notices: Contractors Beware
We recently posted a case law update concerning the case of ISG Construction Ltd v Seevic College [2014] which confirmed that paying parties who fail to serve valid payment notices and/or pay less notices may find themselves liable to pay the full...

15 July 2015
Taking control of the Levy Control Framework - July 2015
The Levy Control Framework escaped a mention in the recent Summer Budget but has made up for it yesterday (22 July 2015). Amber Rudd, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, announced a package of reforms to rein in spending on renewable...