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Sep 11, 2024 | 
techradar.com | Christopher Brennan |Mike Jennings
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May 28, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Christopher Brennan
Click here to watch the videoChris Brennan discusses the draft Procurement Regulations 2024, explaining how the Regulations will work alongside the Procurement Act 2023, what their role will be, and how they will be key in laying out practical aspects of the new law.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Christopher Brennan |Elizabeth Williams |Alison Richards
As part of our ongoing changing landscape series, this insight explores the key developments, changes and exclusions for defence and security contracts under the Procurement Act 2023 (the Act). So, what are the key takeaways as regards defence and security contracts? Exemptions and exclusionsThe Act sets out a number of exemptions and exclusions from its coverage. Here's a summary of some of the exemptions from the main requirements of the Act for defence and security contracts.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
crisismagazine.com | Christopher Brennan
As we find ourselves in Lent and then Eastertide thereafter, I plead to the priests of our nation as a son to a father. And I come to you not only as a sinner but as a man who once lived as dissolute a life as the worst Roman pagan. I am grateful to God for every priest who has ever heard my confession and for every priest, since the Last Supper to the end of time, who has or who will offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Christopher Brennan
The 20th century was unkind to Vienna. The capital of the Habsburg empire until 1918, it was, by early 1989, a bleak and battered outpost within touching distance of the iron curtain. Now that the city has undeniably recaptured its glory of old (symbolically, its population grew to two million last year, its pre-first world war imperial population), it might seem counterintuitive to visit it for its modernist architecture.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
crisismagazine.com | Christopher Brennan
I recently came across an announcement for a seminar on the annulment process in the diocesan paper of a fairly large and populated American diocese. (It was not my own diocese, nor even in my own state.) I am an attorney and have some interest in preserving marriages and preventing divorces, or at least in “running interference” on what I call the “great maw of the divorce court meat grinder” (I do not take divorce cases).
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Jul 7, 2023 | 
sifted.eu | Christopher Brennan
British prime minister Rishi Sunak is gathering a Mt Olympus of political and tech leaders to grapple at the “first major global summit on AI” in September. With this, he is positioning the United Kingdom between the approaches of the US and the EU, as well as a benevolent mediator between regulators and companies such as OpenAI and Google. Just last week, OpenAI announced it was opening its first foreign office in London.
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Christopher Brennan
The recent case of James Waste Management LLP v Essex County Council [2023] EWHC 1157 (TCC) deals with the issues surrounding the ability for contracting authorities to make changes to contracts. In the case, James Waste Management LLP brought a claim against Essex County Council.
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Apr 4, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Christopher Brennan |Simon Harris
All contracting authorities in England, and contracting authorities in Wales and Northern Ireland that exercise wholly or mainly reserved functions, should now use the Crown Commercial Service’s updated Standard Selection questionnaire (SQ), published with Procurement Policy Note 03/23, when undertaking above-threshold procurements within Part 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015[1]. Use of the updated standard SQ is mandatory as from 1 April.
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Mar 29, 2023 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Christopher Brennan
The Astonishing Power of One Hail Mary, by Joseph Pronechen March 29, 2023Msgr. Charles Pope: What Does Scripture Mean by “the Flesh”? March 29, 2023 In light of the extremity of the German bishops’ message, why is so much discourse around Catholic doctrine and departure from it surrounded with so much politesse and restraint? By Christopher J. Brennan, Esq., Crisis Magazine, March 28, 2023Christopher J. Brennan, Esq.
