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The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced that it's seeking views on four completed acquisitions by Welltower Inc., covering over 600 operational care homes across the UK before opening a formal merger investigation. These transactions involve homes managed by Barchester, HC-One, Aria Care, and Danforth Care, representing a significant consolidation within the UK care sector.
The Supreme Court’s decision this week in Lewis-Ranwell v G4S Health Services (UK) Ltd and others raises stark questions about the intersection of mental health law, negligence, and public policy. At its heart is a deeply tragic sequence of events. But the judgment is not about apportioning moral blame. It asks whether the civil law should permit a claimant to recover compensation for losses flowing directly from acts of extreme violence, even where those acts were committed during a psychotic episode and attracted no criminal responsibility. For healthcare bodies and those working in mental health and criminal justice settings, the case is likely to be pertinent.
The UK Department for Business and Trade has published a consultation on wide ranging reforms to the UK’s competition law regime. The proposals include reforms to the Competition and Markets Authority’s decision-making structure and merger control jurisdictional tests; as well as further procedural and governance changes.
Lawmakers were embarrassed recently after users of the artificial intelligence model Grok created thousands of images of ‘digitally undressed’ women and children and shared them on X. Reading the press coverage, you might have got the impression that lawmakers had failed to anticipate this problem, but that is not the case. A number of statutory mechanisms exist to prevent the creation and publication of images of this kind, including in the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 and the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA). This article looks at the relevant provisions in those Acts.
Parties to litigation rely on documents, emails, contracts and records to establish facts before a court or tribunal. Judges rely on the parties and their lawyers to challenge falsified documents. However, the rising use of AI presents a significant cause for concern, enabling the production and manipulation of documents with ease. Perhaps even more concerning is the fact that the documents produced through AI can go largely undetected when tested through traditional verification methods.
The recent decision in Powys Teaching Health Board & Anor v NT & Anor offers important guidance on capacity assessments and the need for timely applications in cases of serious medical treatment.
James Thompson and Issie Huckin consider the High Court’s recent decision in Managed Legal Solutions v Mr Darren Hanison (trading as Fortitude Law) and HDI Global Specialty SE [2025] EWHC 2645 (Comm) which concerns the circumstances in which a professional indemnity insurer may be added as a defendant to underlying liability proceedings on their own application.
In December 2025, the Westminster eForum met to discuss the next steps for the quantum industries in the United Kingdom. This first article in a two-part series summarises the key take home messages from the first part of that meeting.
The High Court considered whether to appoint additional liquidators to TB Realisations Limited (formerly Travelex Bank Notes Limited) following concerns raised by Rawbank S.A., its largest unsecured creditor, regarding potential conflicts and inadequate investigation of claims arising from pre-administration transactions.
The Court has made an order terminating the administration of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) so that it could be placed into members’ voluntary liquidation, and has extended the term of the administration of three other Lehman Brothers companies.
In the recent Supreme Court decision of Michell v Al Jaber [2025] UKSC 43. the Court held that the Director of the liquidated company (MBI International & Partners Inc (in Liquidation)) (MBI) was personally liable to compensate the liquidators of MBI for losses arising as a result of a 2009 share transfer.
On 27 January 2026, the remainder of the Heat Networks (Market Framework) (Great Britain) Regulations 2025 come into force. Here’s a short history lesson and some suggestions for topics heat network operators, suppliers, landlords and off takers might want to think about as the date approaches.