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Simon Sherwood, real estate partner at Mills & Reeve, examines how the Government’s proposed ban on upward only rent reviews could reshape the healthcare property market. He explores what the changes mean for operators, investors and developers across the sector, and how the market may need to adapt as a long established valuation and rental model comes under pressure.
The government’s latest press release confirms a further £74 million of investment to support clean energy upgrades across 82 NHS Trusts, alongside military sites and a prison.
The government has published a plan to understand the impacts of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on public health and the environment, with co-ordinated actions to minimise risks across many industries and sectors. The plan sets out a clear framework for understanding, identifying, reducing and managing the risks from harmful PFAS.
Jacqueline Cook, senior finance knowledge lawyer at Mills & Reeve and member of the Cape Town Convention Academic Project, looks at the current status of the MAC Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment. With special thanks to William Brydie-Watson, legal officer at UNIDROIT and Duarte Pedreira, TF COP Task Force chair.
After a few years where data protection laws in the UK were settled, the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA) is ushering in a period of change.
The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA) introduces targeted amendments to the current international transfer provisions with the key objective of simplifying outbound data transfers, reducing business compliance burdens, and giving the UK greater flexibility to recognise foreign data protection regimes.
This article looks at how the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA) changes the rules around the protection of childrens’ personal data.
In this article, we consider when the law allows you to collect personal data for one purpose and then re-use it for another.
In this article, Mills & Reeve considers how Data (Use and Access) Act changes the permitted approach to cookies and other tracking technologies and asks, “What are the new rules on online tracking technologies such as cookies?”
CQC’s annual report on the use of the Mental Health Act (MHA) was published on 29 January 2026, and looks at how providers are caring for patients, and whether patient’s rights are being protected.
The UK government has launched the Warm Homes Plan, a £15 billion programme aimed at improving residential energy efficiency through insulation upgrades, heat pumps, heat networks, rooftop solar and wider decarbonisation measures.
In Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust v EF & Ors, the court considered EF’s mental capacity, his best interests and how to balance his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights - specifically the right to family life and the right to life - when deciding whether he should be moved to supported living to receive life‑sustaining medical treatment.