gillies
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Looks good to me. Does the new light attach to the bracket by two grub screws? It’s probably not the most effective way of earthing the body, but better than nowt.
But one minor thing is that you shouldn’t have any bare copper showing. Try and straighten the strands, lightly twist them, trim the end so only the amount of copper that is needed to fit into the connector block is left bare, make sure you back out the screw on the connector block far enough that there’s no screw visible when you look down the barrel of the block, insert the cable and tighten the screw while continuing the push the wire into the block. It’s a fiddle, but it’s quite important no bare copper is showing.
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If you want to make life easier in the future grab some spring loaded connectors like Wago make. Makes these jobs a breeze.
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Nef
Airhead
The black sleeve is literally what makes it double insulated, lol.
I don’t like these double insulated lights tbh, because the double insulation is always fairly lacklustre.
One option is to put a screw where it says “GND” and wrap the bare copper of the earth around it. Which will earth the light - which is similar to what I did on another light fitting recently.