<?xml version="1.0"?><?xml-stylesheet title = "XSL_formatting" type="text/xsl" href="/RSS/rss.xsl"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><docs>https://s1-uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/WLN-PLCUK-SC_2609.2.1009/productViews/plcuk/</docs><category>Legal updates</category><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com</link><title>Public Law</title><description>Public Law</description><item><title>Acas publishes research on disabled employees' experiences of workplace conflict </title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ia2b0b561b66411f19cb7bba67601920a/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ia2b0b561b66411f19cb7bba67601920a/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>On 22 September 2026, Acas published an independent research report, Disabled employees' experiences of workplace conflict, prepared by the National Centre for Social Research. The report examines how and why disabled employees experience workplace conflict and what supports its prevention and resolution.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ia2b0b561b66411f19cb7bba67601920a/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>Individual employees can be liable for failure to make reasonable adjustments (EAT)</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I05156138b2d911f1a4a6ef66852f62f9/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I05156138b2d911f1a4a6ef66852f62f9/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>In Merriman v 1st Staff Ltd and others [2026] EAT 128, the EAT held that individual respondents can be personally liable in addition to the employer in relation to a failure to make reasonable adjustments for a disabled employee.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I05156138b2d911f1a4a6ef66852f62f9/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>ICO updates FOIA public interest test guidance following Supreme Court ruling in DBT v ICO</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ie2925bd4b2b911f1a4a6ef66852f62f9/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ie2925bd4b2b911f1a4a6ef66852f62f9/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has significantly updated its detailed guidance on the public interest test under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), and produced a new summary guide, following the Supreme Court's decision in DBT v ICO [2025] UKSC 27. Public authorities, particularly those likely to rely on multiple exemptions under FOIA for the same information, should review their PIT decision-making and refusal notice practices against the revised guidance.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ie2925bd4b2b911f1a4a6ef66852f62f9/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>The Brexit week to 18 September 2026</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I50616bbbb11f11f1a85a97c6d86a7022/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I50616bbbb11f11f1a85a97c6d86a7022/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>A round-up of the week's Brexit-related developments for the Practical Law Brexit current awareness alert to 18 September 2026.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I50616bbbb11f11f1a85a97c6d86a7022/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>EAT considers circumstances in which aggravated damages can be awarded </title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/If07534c2b1af11f1a85a97c6d86a7022/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/If07534c2b1af11f1a85a97c6d86a7022/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>In Khans Solicitors v Kaiser [2026] EAT 137, the EAT held that an employment tribunal had failed adequately to explain its award of aggravated damages. Having set out the governing principles, it remitted the issue to the same tribunal for reconsideration.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/If07534c2b1af11f1a85a97c6d86a7022/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>Government publishes research into barriers to accessing reasonable adjustments at work</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I648f1722b07411f1a4a6ef66852f62f9/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I648f1722b07411f1a4a6ef66852f62f9/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>On 11 September 2026, the Office for Equality and Opportunity published Reasonable adjustments: research into delays in decisions, a review of the barriers disabled employees face when accessing reasonable adjustments at work under the Equality Act 2010.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I648f1722b07411f1a4a6ef66852f62f9/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>Government Commercial Function publishes guide on frameworks under Procurement Act 2023 </title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I84c99741ad4b11f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I84c99741ad4b11f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>The Government Commercial Function has published The Framework Practice Guide, setting out best practice for centralised procurement authorities, public sector-owned consortia, individual contracting authorities and public sector buyers on establishing and using frameworks under the Procurement Act 2023. Practitioners advising contracting authorities or buyers on the operation of frameworks may wish to review the guide.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I84c99741ad4b11f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>Government publishes response to Work and Pensions Committee report on disability at work</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I84a002b4ad0b11f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I84a002b4ad0b11f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>On 10 September 2026, the government published its response to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee's report, Employment support for disabled people: Disability at Work.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I84a002b4ad0b11f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>Personal Data (Digital Twins) Bill introduced to House of Commons</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ibdfb151fad0711f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ibdfb151fad0711f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>Dame Chi Onwurah MP has introduced the Personal Data (Digital Twins) Bill to the House of Commons under the Ten Minute Rule. The Bill, if passed into law, would regulate software or algorithms that use personal data to model an individual's preferences or behaviours, and would require explicit consent before a digital twin of a person could be created.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ibdfb151fad0711f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>The Brexit week to 11 September 2026</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I25b821bcac7c11f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I25b821bcac7c11f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>A round-up of the week's Brexit-related developments for the Practical Law Brexit current awareness alert to 11 September 2026.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I25b821bcac7c11f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>Scotland: Programme for Government 2026 - 2031 published: employment implications</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I54574da7acb911f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I54574da7acb911f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>The Scottish Government has published its Programme for Government 2026 - 2031.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I54574da7acb911f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>Tribunal erred in applying material factor defence in equal pay claims brought by Next sales staff (EAT)</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I1bb6fa48a96211f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I1bb6fa48a96211f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>In Next Retail Ltd and another v Thandi and others [2026] EAT 130, the EAT held that a tribunal had erred when it decided that, in paying warehouse staff a higher rate of basic pay than shop-floor sales staff, the retailer Next had breached equal pay law.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I1bb6fa48a96211f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>European Commission proposes EU Public Procurement Act to replace 2014 procurement directives</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I8ec4eeb3ac0c11f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I8ec4eeb3ac0c11f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>On 9 September 2026, the European Commission published its proposal for a Regulation on public contracts and concessions, repealing Directives 2014/23/EU (Concessions Directive), 2014/24/EU (Public Procurement Directive) and 2014/25/EU (Utilities Directive). The proposal would consolidate EU procurement rules into a single, directly applicable Regulation.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I8ec4eeb3ac0c11f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>Advocate General opinion finding that exclusion from procurement procedures for reasons of national security is compatible with EU law (ECJ)</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ica5a05f5aba711f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ica5a05f5aba711f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>On 8 September 2026, Advocate General Biondi handed down an opinion on a request for a preliminary reference ruling from a Lithuanian court asking for clarification as to whether the national legislation which permits the exclusion, for reasons of national security, of certain undertakings or tenders from public procurement procedures, was compatible with EU law. (Autovici UAB v CPO LT Všį and Skinest Baltija UAB v Lietuvos geležinkeliai AB (Joined Cases C-271/25 and C-334/25), ECLI:EU:C:2026:727).</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ica5a05f5aba711f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>AI Risk Management Toolkit for public sector AI projects published</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Iaaff9746aba011f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Iaaff9746aba011f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>On 8 September 2026, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) published AI Risk Management Toolkit guidance, together with an accompanying workbook, to help UK public sector bodies identify, assess, treat, monitor and report risks arising from AI solutions.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Iaaff9746aba011f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>BSI and ISO publish new global standard on menstruation and menopause in the workplace</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Id01875b7a96111f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Id01875b7a96111f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>The British Standards Institution (BSI) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have published a new global standard offering guidance for employers on managing menstrual and menopausal health in the workplace. The new guidance is intended to build on the British standard published by the BSI in 2023.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Id01875b7a96111f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>Government publishes letter proposing reforms to consultations, legal risk and judicial review</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ic4e52092aac311f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ic4e52092aac311f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>On 7 September 2026, HM Treasury published a letter to all ministers on the simplification and agency of government, jointly signed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Secretary of State and the Attorney General. It sets out proposed changes to the government's approach to consultations, ministerial decision-making on legal risk, and judicial review of nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs). It is not clear how many of these proposed changes would operate in practice. 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The contract performance notice requirement commenced on 1 January 2026. The guidance notes that devolved Welsh authorities must now publish contract performance notices on the Welsh Digital Platform. Welsh contracting authorities and economic operators will wish to note the new guidance.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Ib7735c2aa84011f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>New video on sponsor compliance: immigration aspects of corporate transactions</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Iec3b92b4a61f11f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Iec3b92b4a61f11f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>We have published a new video on sponsor compliance: immigration aspects of corporate transactions, presented by Aisha Choudhry, Senior Associate at Bates Wells.</description><guid>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/Iec3b92b4a61f11f1858dc303bc627988/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid></item><item><title>Sporting Events Bill: second reading in House of Commons</title><link>https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I2c6333fca84311f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/Document/I2c6333fca84311f18fc1891fbf1e1888/View/FullText.html?transitionType=Default&amp;contextData=%28sc.Default%29</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate><description>On 3 September 2026, the Sporting Events Bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons. 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