As Christmas and 2025 quickly approach us, we thought we would provide you with a summary of what has been happening here at Barbour Consolidated in 2024!
Of course the year isn't over just yet, and as we enter the last few weeks of December, there's more than enough to keep our writing and editorial team as busy as Santa's elves...
We're well versed here at Barbour to deal with the inevitable massive legislation change that always seems to pop up right before Christmas. Anyone remember Brexit? We certainly do...
But for now, here are our stats for the year so far, which highlights what has been added and updated to help our clients stay compliant.
UK legislation
Our UK legislation includes:
This year our writers have published 268 new pieces of UK legislation.
European legislation
Our European legislation includes:
This year our writers published 248 new pieces of EU legislation.
Drafts
Our draft legislation includes proposed law that is issued for consultation before being formally introduced to Parliament, which allows proposed changes to be made before the Bill's formal introduction.
This year our writers published 43 pieces of draft legislation.
Guidance and Consultations
A consultation paper is a policy document that is put out by the Government for public comment and feedback.
Our guidance documents are from Government departments that help provide further information to support national legislation.
This year our writers published 129 guidance and consultation documents.
News and In-focus articles
Our writers create news stories on:
Our In-focus articles do a more thorough deep-dive into new or proposed changes in the law and how they have or will impact compliance.
This year our writers published 254 news stories and 25 in-focus articles.
Behind the scenes
In total we added 1,703 documents to Barbour Consolidated in 2024, which includes:
In 2024 we updated 1,843 documents, this means that when the law changed, our writers went in and amended those documents, keeping them up-to-date and consolidated. All that work makes your life easier - no trailing through multiple different documents to work out what the law says!
We also answered 106 legal queries that were submitted through our client feedback button! Something that's a huge benefit to our subscribers - digging into those weird, technical legislation questions that you can't quite get to the bottom of!
Overall that is some amazing work from our writing and editorial team, and as we continue to work for the next couple of weeks, I am sure they will enjoy their well deserved Christmas break!
