Swansea Council has issued pre‑action legal letters to the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and Y11, owners of the Ospreys, after being told that regional rugby in Swansea will not exist beyond the end of next season if a takeover of Cardiff Rugby by Y11 is successful. The local authority said it has “serious concerns that…
The Leader of Swansea Council last week revealed that it is considering “every option, including legal avenues” to safeguard the future of regional rugby in the city. Cllr Rob Stewart’s comments on Facebook last week came just before the Welsh Rugby Union confirmed that Y11, the owners of the region’s professional side the Ospreys, had been chosen…
The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals – Goal 5: Waste Goal 5 of the Government’s Environmental Improvement Plan concerns waste. Edward-Arash Abedian looks at the Government’s proposals including in relation to tackling waste crime. New powers to tackle waste crime in Wales Chapter 3 of the Environmental Improvement Plan 2025 (EIP) is all…
A council decision to reject a man’s complaint regarding his neighbour’s cats fouling in his garden “cannot stand” and should be redetermined, the High Court has ruled. In Williamson, R (On the Application Of) v Caerphilly County Borough Council [2025] EWHC 3312 (Admin) (19 December 2025), Judge Jarman KC, sitting as a High Court judge, found that…
The Welsh Government has this week (15 December) published its Disabled People’s Rights Plan, setting out “practical actions” to tackle barriers across employment, transport, education, healthcare, housing and public services. The Disabled People’s Rights Plan outlines a 10-year commitment to ensuring disabled people can enjoy “equitable rights, inclusion and participation”, and has been “strengthened” to include new…
The Administrative Court has granted permission for a legal challenge against the decision by the Welsh Government to ban greyhound racing, on the ground of “unlawful consultation”. Industry body the Greyhound Board of Great Britain (GBGB) argue that the Welsh Government “did not follow the correct process” when announcing a ban, which they claim would…
The Welsh Government has entered into a section 23 legal agreement with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) following enforcement action by the regulator over compliance failures. The action comes after the Welsh Government accepted in a recent legal case that it had failed to comply with the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) when…
The Public Services Ombudsman for Wales has found housing association Trivallis guilty of maladministration and service failure relating to how it responded to reports of damp and mould and a broken boiler in one of its properties. The Ombudsman found that Trivallis did not always respond appropriately to reports of damp and mould, and reports…
The Welsh Government has launched a consultation on changes to local elections rules that include making them fully bilingual and allowing candidates in local government elections to incur reasonable expenses for personal security and property protection without these costs counting towards their campaign expenditure limits. The consultation seeks views on the draft Local Elections (Wales) (Amendment) Rules…
Gwynedd Borough Council is to appeal a High Court decision which found that cabinet members who supported a direction on second homes and short-term holiday lets were “materially misled”. In Enlli Angharad Williams, R (on the application of) v Cyngor Gwynedd [2025] EWHC 2395, Mr Justice Eyre found that an officer’s report and accompanying documents failed to…
