03/01/2018 New measures to improve standards in the private rented sector (E) Landlords renting properties in England occupied by 5 or more people from 2 or more separate households (‘houses in multiple occupation’) will need to be licensed and anyone

03/01/2018 Investigating the abuse of CCJs by rogue companies (E, W) Concerns that rogue companies are damaging consumers’ credit ratings by deliberately sending money claims to incorrect addresses so County Court Judgments (CCJs) are issued by default has resulted in

03/01/2018 Creating a countrywide ‘major road network’ (E)  5,000 miles of the busiest and most economically important local authority ‘A’ roads will be incorporated in a new Major Road Network (MRN) that can draw on the National Roads Fund *

 Economic news 2nd January 2018 UK fails to match global business optimism Global business optimism has reached a record high but sentiment among UK companies has fallen in the last year, according to a survey by Grant Thornton. The firm’s

Fraud investigation into insolvency firm abandoned. 2nd January 2018. Officials have dropped a criminal investigation into a firm of insolvency practitioners accused of a multimillion-pound fee fraud. Sheffield-based P&A Partnership had been accused of cheating creditors of scores of businesses