Calderdale Metropolitan District Council accumulated a backlog of 200 unresolved complaints about noise during the pandemic, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has found.

Given the speed and scale with which the Government needed to create new regulations in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, in future it needs to have the requisite tools in advance "to respond in a swift and proportionate manner that does not risk criminalising behaviour in ways incompatible with widely understood principles of the rule of law, and avoids any lasting damage to the criminal…

Barristers’ chambers Francis Taylor Building and law firm Poppleston Allen have published a 50-page report covering the COVID-19 related legislative changes which affected the hospitality sector, from the start of restrictions to Step 4 of the Roadmap and the full re-opening of hospitality in July 2021.

An Oxfordshire County Council project aimed at improving legal compliance in relation to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) services and trials and a Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) research project into enhancing legal access within local communities are amongst 21 projects to have received financial backing from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

A warrant is out for the arrest of a butcher after prosecutors at Barking and Dagenham Council secured a conviction over the attempted sale of poor-quality chicken to customers.

A council has expressed disappointment at the sentence handed down to a business owner after counterfeit tobacco was found on his premises twice in five months.

District planning authorities in England issued fewer than 3,000 enforcement notices in the year to March 2021, government data has revealed.

The City of Edinburgh Council is to hold a consultation from next month on a draft proposal to designate the whole city as a "short term let (STL) control area".

A landlord who was reportedly the first in the country to receive a banning order under the Housing and Planning Act 2016 when the new law was introduced in 2019, has been convicted of breaching the original order.

A private landlord operating an unlicensed and overcrowded property in Kensal Green has been told to pay more than £21,000 in fines and costs by Willesden Magistrates' Court.