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Nuisance is unreasonable interference with another party’s use of land.  Harvest and certain industrial practices always brings out some instances of conflict between the use of land and other's reasonable enjoyment. See this article for a timely revival of our assessment on the different sorts of nuisance and how best to avoid them.

With high numbers and rates of fatal injury, agriculture is one of the riskiest industry sectors for accidents at work. The key message from this article is to identify your risks and address them. Make sure that each aspect of your operation has been risk assessed; that those risk assessments have been acted on; and that they are kept up to date.

The consultation closes on 12 October 2022

A positive step for the edible insect market means certain edible insects may be governed by the transition period and remain on the market. This shows a pragmatic risk based approach by the FSA finally in operation.

Food labelling address change requirements that were due to mean a UK Food Business Operator (FBO) must be listed on food imported from the EU or ‘UK’/’Non-UK’ identification of origin labelling, rather than EU/Non-EU, has been delayed from 1 October 2022 until 1 January 2024.

Green and sustainability claims are under increased scrutiny from regulators, enforcement bodies and consumer activists. An overview of the key themes from recent ASA adjudications highlights 4 critical areas to get right.

There are a range of restrictions on the promotion of certain specified foods high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) that will be coming into force.  Most notably restrictions on location both in-store and online within certain qualifying businesses from next month, 1 October 2022.

The three key questions that tribunals must answer when assessing the fairness of redundancy dismissals...

In an article for Laing Buisson’s Care Markets UK, partner and head of immigration, Alex Russell looks at immigration developments and the direction of travel and what this means for the care sector...

We look at some recent examples of enforcement of advertising rules in the life sciences sector in the context of online promotional activity.

A number of recent tribunal rulings have considered whether various “gender critical” beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010.  Each case turns on its own facts and specific context, with the tribunals emphasising that it is not their role to express views on the merits or correctness of particular beliefs...

On 28 July 2022 the Building Safety Fund re-opened for new applications.