Start with authoritative material
Legislation and official guidance provide the foundation. Professional bodies’ resources add context about practice, standards and the operation of procedures. Each guide links to the material used rather than asking you to rely on an unsupported summary.
Source selection takes account of the jurisdiction, procedure, publication date and purpose. A page can be official and still contain historical material. A search result, an old factsheet or a working link does not establish that a rule remains current.
What the dates mean
- Source publication or update date: the date stated by the publisher, where it is available. It is not changed to make a source appear newer.
- Source checked: an editorial check of the cited material for this explanation. This is not a statement that an independent professional has reviewed the website or advised on a particular case.
- Next review: the planned date for reassessing the explanation. Time-sensitive subjects are scheduled monthly; the remainder of the library is scheduled quarterly.
- Link check: an automated observation about availability. It is separate from a substantive editorial review and does not renew the review date.
If a review date passes, the guide’s review state should be read accordingly. It should not be assumed current simply because the page is still accessible.
Changes need a reason and an approval
Monitoring can identify a changed source, an unavailable page or a new development. A detected change is a prompt for review, not evidence that the guide should be rewritten automatically. Substantive revisions require editorial approval before publication.
A review should identify the affected passage, the supporting source, the proposed wording and any consequential changes to comparisons, timelines or related guides. An approved revision is recorded in the versioned content and its relevant review information.
Consultations, draft measures, enacted provisions and rules that are actually in force are kept distinct. Commencement, transitional arrangements, territorial extent and outstanding legislative amendments can all matter.
Original explanations, with practical limits
The practice and regulation expansion of 26 October 2026 adds guides on AML, suspicious activity reporting, sanctions, director conduct, investigations, employment rights, redundancy payments, consultation, TUPE, data protection, Companies House identity verification and HMRC. Each subject is presented for all three jurisdictions, with UK-wide and local frameworks distinguished. This expansion was requested by the site owner; subsequent unattended monitoring still requires approval before substantive publication.
The library uses original summaries. It separates procedural facts from illustrative assumptions and avoids treating a potential recovery, forecast or proposed outcome as a certainty. Fictional distribution examples identify their asset pool, priorities and exclusions; they do not calculate anyone’s entitlement.
Numerical eligibility limits, fees and statutory caps are especially sensitive to dates and jurisdiction. Where a reliable current figure is needed, the guide directs the reader to the appropriate official material. A figure is not carried forward from an old document merely because the document remains online.
Registers and filed reports have their own coverage and limits. A filing records information submitted to a register; it does not independently establish every claim within it. An absence from one register is not proof of solvency.
Source credits and reuse
Contains public-sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated. The source trail identifies the relevant public authority and original publication. Crown copyright and any other source notices remain with their respective material.
The licence does not grant rights to government logos, personal data or material covered by third-party rights. This website does not use professional bodies’ logos or present itself as an official service.
Professional publications are linked for reference. Member-only material is identified where relevant; a link does not provide access rights or permission to reproduce it. Original explanations on this website should be distinguished from the external organisations’ own words and guidance.