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- The implications of the Vnuk case
- The solvency statement: reducing share capital
- Earn out: ensure that you take tax advice
- Directors' liability — tax and insolvency
- Must we continue to provide childcare vouchers to employees on maternity leave?
- Can you dismiss an employee if you provide the alcohol?
- Finding the balance — what to bear in mind when considering whether to make an admission in the RTA portal
- A right way: not as simple as from A to B
- Employees with criminal convictions: A right to work?
- Changes to notification of auditor resignations
- TUPE: The difficulties in disease litigation
- Colour Quest Ltd v Total Downstream UK Plc [2010] EWCA Civ 180
- Beware the covert recorder
- Dealing with unpaid fees — what are your debt recovery options?
- Disclosure to and by the coroner
- Q&A: Can we ban the burqa or veil in the workplace?
- LVI — A fresh approach for defendants
- Adding insult to injury? Taxation of awards for discrimination
- The Openness of Local Government Bodies Regulations 2014 — questions, answers and unanswered questions
- Well adjusted? Disciplinary proceedings for disabled employees
- Release of corporate debt: watch out for hidden tax charges
- An introduction to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
- When sick staff work elsewhere
- Implying rights into a completed transfer of land
- How much HR involvement is appropriate in a disciplinary process?
- TUPE — a special assignment — how to spot those employees who transfer, those who don’t and those who might!
- Pension loss calculations in disease claims
- Coroners' forms and investigation process explained
- TUPE the final word — it's static not dynamic
- Breakdown of relationships justifies dismissal
- Termination of a contract for repudiatory breach
- Chasing debts and harassment claims
- Assignment of rent: an effective remedy against defaulting borrowers?
- Successor Practice Rules: pitfalls and premiums
- Piercing the corporate veil
- Tax efficient extraction of surplus cash
- An improper purpose
- TUPE: who is the 'client' in a service provision change?
- What evidence should we disclose to the Coroner?
- The evolving landscape of foreseeability in tree root subsidence cases
- Allotment rents increase unlawful
- Protection from Harassment Act 1997
- Landlord and tenant — accepting surrender and waiving right to forfeit
- Vicarious liability: defending your business against claims
- Restrictive covenants: seeking remedies
- Sale of Goods contracts: Seller’s liability for subcontracts
- Whistleblowing: who can claim?
- A fair deal for pensions or an added complication?
- Misconduct linked to disability — new case law
- Port or berth charter — who pays for delay?
- ACoP for the CDM 2015 Regulations?
- Changes to share buy backs
- The Internet of Things — do the privacy risks outweigh the advantages?
- The cost of reasonable adjustments
- Root Cause Analysis Investigations - A short guide to effective report writing
- Early conciliation: our experiences
- Limitation matters — or does it?
- When is a commercial contract a “construction contract” and why does it matter?
- Which jurisdiction governs your contract?
- Completing the deal where signatories are unavailable
- How to deal with a term-time working request
- Section 33 — a little clarity
- Religious dress at work: conflicting opinions from the ECJ
- Handling flexible working requests (10 top tips)
- Retla Clause: Does it apply to all kinds of rust of whatever severity?
- Share purchase agreements and restrictive covenants
- Rates avoidance — all right for some?
- Q&A: holiday during sickness absence
- Managing sickness absence: five top tips
- A basic guide to disclosure
- The Defamation Act 2013 — will it make a difference?
- Changing workplace policies and procedures
- A business owner’s guide to post-termination restrictions
- Reasonable redeployment
- Can we scrap our employee bonus scheme?
- Suitable alternative employment? It’s all about what’s reasonable for that employee
- How can excepted group life assurance schemes help you?
- Employee shareholders and share buybacks
- Are the courts prepared to rule on academic judgement?
- Notice effective to exclude liability under the Misrepresentation Act 1967
- A director’s authority to bind a company
- Substantial property transactions and the acquisition of non-cash assets
- Christopher Edwards v London Borough of Sutton [2016] EWCA Civ 1005
- What does 'living in the same household' actually mean?
- Cycle helmets and contributory negligence revisited
- Atlantik Confidence — Breaking the 1976 Limitation for Maritime
- Hague Rules Package Limitation does not apply to bulk cargoes
- New inheritance rules came into force on 1 October 2014 for people who don’t have a will
- Manufacturer may not be liable even if a product is defective
- Holiday pay claims: new limits on how much employees can claim
- Walker v Metropolitan Police
- Stopping e-mail access to absent employee was unlawful discrimination
- Restricting where your former employees work can be reasonable says High Court
- Important judgment on the accrual of holiday during long term sickness
- R (on the application of Karen Ann Manser) v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis
- Employment termination payments, tax and injury to feelings
- Recoverable damages for wasted staff costs
- Supreme Court judgment reminds employers of the risk of reinstatement orders
- R (on the application of Darren Williams) (claimant) v Police Appeals Tribunal (defendant) and Metropolitan Police (interested party)
- S.11 repairing obligations in the Supreme Court
- McCarthy v Chief Constable of Merseyside Police
- R (on the application of TL) v Chief Constable of Surrey
- R (Hicks) v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis
- Employment Tribunal decisions online: resource or risk?
- Working Time Regulations: what happens when employees have multiple jobs?
- What if I don’t want my inheritance?
- What is the difference between civil partnership and equal marriage?
- Calculating strike pay deductions, important decision from the Supreme Court
- In indirect discrimination, the reason why is not relevant says the Supreme Court
- Social media misconduct: can we dismiss an employee for damaging our reputation?
- Industrial relations update: five new cases
- Dealing with disability-related sickness absence
- Discrimination by association: opening Pandora’s Box?
- LADs and penalty clauses – important reading for all associated with the construction industry
- When absence goes AWOL
- No damages for ‘loss of personal autonomy’ due to failure to obtain informed consent
- Civil partnerships v marriage — is divorce the same?
- Disciplinary procedures and workplace stress: Is your organisation at risk of a personal injury claim?
- When work transfers overseas, what happens to the staff (and does TUPE apply)?
- Equal pay update: three new cases you need to know about
- Court of Appeal rules on the case of IBM v Dalgleish and others
- A point of interest
- GDPR: what to do when a data breach occurs
- Suspending an employee: Our guide to making an informed decision
- Is fault based divorce the cause of greater animosity between parties?
- Property ownership and cohabitants
- I am living with my partner — do I need to make a will?
- Secret recordings — can they be used in the Family Court?
- Limitation and jurisdiction — the Care Act and recovery of care home fees
- Personal injury, Negligence, Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957
- The assessment of care fees: assets you can and cannot hide
- An exercise in discretion: Robert Carroll v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester
- “In the course of employment”: Vicariously liable for an employee’s wrongdoing
- Unmarried families — financial provision for children on separation
- Police obstruction and self-defence
- Hill immunity misunderstood? Robinson v West Yorkshire Police — Supreme Court
- Can you rely on a medical report which says your employee does not have a disability?
- Cohabitation: a survival guide
- Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Amendment Regulations 2018
- What are the implications of the GDPR for the retail sector?
- Unfair Dismissal on the expiry of a Fixed Term Contract
- Gas safety certificates — a warning for landlords
- Beyond the grave
- Whistleblowing in the NHS: Increased protection for applicants
- High Court ruling on Principals' liability
- Multiple allegations of misconduct: Tread carefully to avoid unfair dismissal
- Covert surveillance and privacy at work: Important new case-law
- Q&A: Can you refuse to hire or dismiss an employee for having tattoos?
- Relocation of equipment under old and new telecoms codes
- Monitoring Officer Handbook Interview
- What is a package or unit for limitation purposes under Hague Visby Rules?
- The burden of proof in Article 5 claims
- KA v MA — A Reminder of the Value of a Pre Nuptial Agreement
- Demurrage, detention and delays by agreement
- Shareholders' agreements — sharing company ownership
- Death of a shareholder
- The Financial Guidance and Claims Act (2018)
- Group structures
- Third party harassment: clarification from the Court of Appeal
- The family shareholder
- Negative impact of ‘blame culture’ on child protection system
- The duty to warn and the limited application of Chester v Afshar
- How to write a dismissal letter: 10 things to consider
- The employee shareholder
- Contribution claims between insurers in mesothelioma cases — limitation and basis of assessment of quantum
- Injunctions: when can an employee stop us from suspending them?
- Pensions update: when is a member in “pensionable service”?
- Q&A: Can a manager covertly record an employee’s disciplinary meeting?
- Preparing your company for sale
- Coroner’s Inquests and Article 2 — Fernandes endorsed by the UK Courts
- Dealing with sale proceeds of a business
- The Court of Appeal and the case of the disappearing dismissal
- Emergency services owe duty of care to individual following 999 call
- Late acceptance of a Part 36 Offer does not automatically give rise to indemnity costs
- Planning redundancies: Top tips for dealing with employees on maternity leave
- Pleadings and fundamental dishonesty: Howlett affirmed as film director’s compensation claim is dismissed
- Surviving the 'POCA freeze'
- Defender hotel not liable for the pursuer’s fall from steps
- Duty of care, negligence and assumption of responsibility
- The scope of the liability of the Motor Insurers Bureau (MIB) as an emanation of the UK state
- Defining turnover rents in the age of e-commerce
- Akhter v Khan and whether the English Court recognises Sharia Marriages: A shift in the accepted legal understanding of what constitutes a marriage, valid or void
- Duty of care owed by A&E receptionist
- Cavanagh v Witley Parish Council, Court of Appeal
- Are non-molestation orders being used fraudulently?
- Ill health retirement: Will a flawed procedure always be discriminatory?
- TUPE: Can we remove an employee allowance following a transfer?
- The danger of non-disclosure in acquisitions
- Defendants are entitled to pre action disclosure of impecuniosity evidence
- Universal credit — delays and the impact on divorced or divorcing couples
- Avoid a contractual own goal — the importance of entire agreement clauses
- QOCS and counterclaims
- Holiday Pay: Important new case on ‘carry over’ and pay in lieu of annual leave
- Holiday Sickness: Can an employee claim back annual leave if they are unwell?
- Why it's important to get condition precedents right
- When is a document a deed?
- A sting in the tail of benefits reform: Universal Credit and the CRU
- Proving race discrimination: Our success in Court of Appeal
- Retention of data: Catt v The United Kingdom 2019, European Court of Human Rights
- Disability discrimination: what counts as ‘unfavourable’ treatment?
- Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018: a further reason for a raft of disrepair claims
- An employer's guide to GDPR
- Specific performance for breach of repairing covenant at Beetham Tower
- Cameron v Hussain, LV and MIB [2019] UKSC 6 — Normal 'service' is resumed for untraced driver cases
- Liability, chain of causation, Contributory Negligence, Art 75 and meaningful degree of negligence
- Unconscious bias: A hidden risk?
- TUPE: the duty to inform and consult
- FAQ: April 2019 payslip changes; what do I need to know?
- Can a claimant insist that an employment tribunal judgment is removed from the online public record?
- When deliberate isn’t deliberate
- Local Government | Claiming a breach of section 41 of the Highways Act 1980
- The impact of the recent decision on 'smash and grab' adjudications
- Employment claims — Increase in compensation limits from 6 April 2021
- Expenses in the Scottish courts — new rules
- Doctors who are subject to a GMC interim suspension should continue to be paid, decides Court of Appeal
- Positive action: First Employment Tribunal case highlights stumbling blocks
- 'Use’ of a vehicle — an opportunity missed?
- Fair and reasonable? A guide to the changes to the Financial Ombudsman Service
- Loss of society — limitation of awards finally?
- Fixed recoverable costs consultation
- Personal liability of directors: Could you be caught out?
- Love is (not) in the air: Handling employees who refuse to work together
- Q&A: Can we deduct lottery contributions from staff pay if this takes some workers below the National Minimum Wage?
- Defamation, Jurisdiction & Forum Non Conveniens
- The Scottish Compulsory Pre-Action Protocol — Binding admissions
- Trust fined for false imprisonment of patient
- Lewis v Tindale, MIB and another — MIB liability for claims outside the scope of the Uninsured and Untraced Drivers Agreements
- Supreme Court clarifies duty of care owed by local authorities to children — new focus on assumption of responsibility
- A reminder on the succession of farming tenancies
- Holiday pay: Northern Ireland police case challenges Bear Scotland
- Do we need to record all employee working time? New case from the ECJ
- Maternity leave: what constitutes reasonable contact with employees?
- Final written warnings: will the Employment Tribunal re-open old warnings (and do internal hearings ever have to do so)?
- Beyond the Employment Tribunal: what happens next when a claim just won’t go away?
- Edinburgh tram tracks held to be direct cause of injury to cyclists
- AI-Najar and others v The Cumberland Hotel (London) Limited
- The Professional Negligence Bar Association launches its new adjudication scheme
- An executor’s right of indemnity
- Industrial relations: Employer can side-step collective bargaining says Court of Appeal
- Navigating auto-renewal contracts and unfair terms
- 'Fundamentally dishonest’ tripping claim with costs summarily assessed
- Scarle v Scarle and the 'commorientes' rule: who died first?
- Will covertly recording a meeting always be gross misconduct?
- How do you calculate holiday pay for staff who work irregular hours?
- TUPE: Obligation to maintain National Minimum Wage records moves to transferee
- Rees and Others v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2019] EWHC 2120 (Admin) QBD (Admin) (Cheema-Grubb J)
- Parental consent still amounts to a deprivation of liberty
- Idu v East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Credit hire costs, taxi drivers, loss of profit and the correct assessment of loss
- Article 3 — the threshold for engagement
- Top tips for the first meeting with your family solicitor
- Electronic service of a 'Copley' offer by text message deemed acceptable
- Detention damages
- Thirty years of the Children Act — a family lawyer reflects
- New pre-action protocols bring clarity for disrepair and possession claims
- Will my spouse/civil partner automatically inherit if I die without a will?
- Helping your children to buy property
- Breadwinner v homemaker: what happens on divorce?
- Regulation of heat — 2020 and beyond
- Court of Appeal issues guidance on restoring a dissolved company to the register
- Civil litigation update — success fees in Scotland
- Disclosure to non-patients: the balancing act between competing interests
- Restrictive covenants in shareholders' agreements
- Remedies of last resort
- CPR amendments effective April 2020
- Vicarious liability — the Supreme Court restores order
- Do not resuscitate, advance decisions, LPAs and safeguarding
- Quasi-partnership disputes
- Stalking Protection Orders
- Disclosure of medical records to a personal representative — is a claim required?
- Claims against insolvent insureds — considerations for insurers and insurance practitioners
- R (Fisher) v Durham County Council — statutory nuisance and the Equality Act 2010
- Reform of outdated divorce laws given the green light
- Construction sector challenges: Collaboration and preparing for the future
- No tax relief for in-specie transfers
- Gas safety certificates and the service of S21 notices
- Goodenough v Chief Constable of Thames Valley (2020)
- Is shared parenting going to become the new default in Scotland after parents separate?
- Forum shopping is alive and well: Villiers v Villiers Supreme Court decision
- Are expert reports in inquests privileged?
- Coronavirus insights
- Force majeure clauses: drafting in a time of Coronavirus
- Your duty to report COVID-19 cases to the Health and Safety Executive or the Coroner
- COVID-19: The risk of prosecution
- Disrepair during COVID-19
- UK M&A in a post-COVID-19 world
- COVID-19: Solicitors’ solvency and insolvency
- Coronavirus: Practice Direction 55C — temporary provision in relation to possession proceedings
- Remote inquest hearings — practical tips
- The practical implications of the FCA's test case judgment for the insurance sector
- COVID-19 and the increased risk of irritant contact dermatitis
- What does Tier 4 mean for separated parents?
- Hot off the press — summary of the Supreme Court judgment in FCA business interruption test case
- Testing times: can an employer require workers to undertake mandatory COVID-19 tests?
- COVID vaccination in care homes: Q&A
- U-turn on mandatory vaccination in health and social care
- The Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill
- COVID-19 and Prevention of Future Deaths Reports: what are the effects (if any)?
- HSE enforcement action prompts warning to health and care providers on COVID-19 respiratory protective equipment
- Where are COVID-19 inquests? Investigating in the shadow of the looming COVID-19 inquiry
- The changing face of the workplace — the implications for employees, employers and business
- HSE statistics lay bare the pandemic’s impact on workplace mental health
- Returning to work after “Long COVID”
- Health and Care Visa scheme expanded
- Easing of COVID restrictions — gas safety & the associated risks
- What do we know about the COVID-19 Public Inquiry so far?
- COVID-19 sickness absence update: Can we withhold sick pay from unvaccinated staff?
- Return to the office and hybrid-working: Your essential Health & Safety checklist
- COVID-19 and annual leave: Must we allow staff to ‘carry-over’ holiday?
- What happens when an inquest overlaps with the terms of reference of a public inquiry?
- Brexit insights
- Securing settled status — how far does the employer’s duty go?
- Brexit — the impact on the construction sector
- The EU Settlement Scheme — Frequently Asked Questions
- Post-Brexit: Is the Visitor Visa an option?
- Right to work updates
- The Brexit data bridge and what you need to know
- Contracts for services — Another visitor visa option for short term workers entering the UK?
- The New Points Based Immigration System — can the shortage occupation list solve the UK construction worker shortage?
- Removing the resident labour market test — transitional teething problems — or here to stay?
- Visiting Europe? To work, or not to work?
- Sponsors take stock — upcoming Certificates of Sponsorship annual allocation deadline
- The UK’s product safety review — The Government’s response: will there be any change?
- Brexit — the impact on the construction sector six months on
- Entry requirements for the UK after 1 October 2021
- Can visitors work in the UK without a visa?
- When can a visit visa be used for European Union construction workers instead of the points-based immigration system?
- Community trademarks in the UK — what happens post-Brexit?
- Construction industry worker shortage — is the frontier worker permit the answer?
- Retained Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2022
- De facto directors personally responsible for company contempt
- Parental alienation
- A common-sense approach to Basic Hire Rates (BHR) evidence
- Ogden working party releases 8th Edition of Ogden tables
- Law Commission’s proposed changes of leasehold enfranchisement
- Legal innovation and technology insights
- Estate planning under an LPA
- TUPE: Can an employment contract be split between multiple new employers?
- Divorce and civil partnership dissolution — a quick guide to family law in England/Wales and Scotland
- Financial settlements arising on divorce — a quick guide to family law in England/Wales and Scotland
- Cohabitation — a quick guide to family law in England/Wales and Scotland
- What happens if there is a dispute about payment of nursery or school fees?
- Financial redress for survivors of historical child abuse
- New compliance requirements for trusts
- Significant changes to planning use classes
- Emergency Services collaboration — the successes and pitfalls
- Preparing for expiry of your PFI contract
- Causing Serious Injury by Careless Driving: more drivers to face the prospect of prison sentences
- Friends and families in business — what happens when familiarity breeds contempt
- Court of Appeal decision in Cable v LV — A useful result for defendants
- Sale and leaseback — the saviour or pitfall in raising capital?
- HMRC increases estate investigations for Inheritance Tax
- Opposite-sex civil partnership uptake
- Necessity to arrest for a search
- The Building Safety Bill 2020: What you need to know
- Families in business: what happens on relationship breakdown?
- Data sharing in the modern NHS
- Public sector exit payments
- The Court of Appeal considers the validity of a notice to quit following the death of a tenant
- Ex turpi causa — Supreme Court decision
- The planning implications of micro-fulfilment centres in urban areas
- UK Parliament considers the current position on “No DSS” letting policies
- Changing the face of family law: A retrospective on some of the seminal family law decisions of the last 20 years
- Click and Collect — some key risks for retailers
- A First Class decision on impecuniosity from the Court of Appeal
- Share sale disputes
- Planning regulations for controversial ‘PD rights and use Class E’, survive judicial review challenge
- Top ten apprenticeship myths
- Data breach claims — a step in the right direction
- Claims in relation to share purchase agreements — how to deal with warranty claims in their early stages
- Tree falls and highway duties
- The importance of a valid notice of warranty claim — recent guidance from the courts
- Businesses and individuals performing contracts in difficult times — force majeure and frustration
- Data breach claims — is common sense prevailing?
- Share purchase agreements — issues surrounding expert determination
- Deadline for NHS disciplinary policy reviews
- Unlawful killing — the civil standard of proof
- Highways England claims post-Cardiff
- Leasehold enfranchisement — major reforms announced
- Al-Najar and others v The Cumberland Hotel (London) Limited 2020 EWCA 1716
- Lawful arrest — a case against Chelmsford Crown Court and Chief Constable of Essex
- The Energy White Paper: Powering our net zero future
- Capital Gains Tax on divorce or dissolution: Do you need to take steps before the end of this tax year?
- Update on the outcome of the consultation about the Caldicott Principles
- Damages for malicious prosecution
- Even Premier League footballers are owed a duty of care
- Data breach litigation — where are we now and what lies ahead?
- Corporate insolvencies and D&O risk
- Litigation funding for businesses — what is third party litigation funding?
- The Ockenden Review
- Pension Schemes Act 2021
- ESG investing — a guide for pension scheme trustees
- Employment tribunals and remote hearings — avoiding embarrassing profile pictures and other top tips
- Data breach claim suitable for small claims track
- Aggregation in reinsurance
- Fraud scam identified in respect of judgment enforcements
- Business valuations on divorce
- The future of construction: opportunities and challenges
- Mind the GAP: GAP Insurance and COVID-19 fraud
- The Whiplash Reforms
- Tinnitus at the traffic lights
- Data theft — beware of departing employees
- Substantial Prejudice Test considered by the Court of Session in a historical child abuse case
- Gifts between unmarried couples — guarding against unexpected tax consequences
- Vulnerable Road Users and the whiplash reforms
- How to respond to a data security incident
- Failure by Spectra Drive to insure a credit hire vehicle leads to claim being dismissed on the grounds of illegality
- On the horizon: major reforms to the UK’s audit market and corporate governance regime A summary and outlook for professional and directors’ Risks
- Liability decision trees
- The position of Local Authorities — Human Rights Act challenges on environmental grounds
- The role of CAFCASS within private Children Act proceedings
- The accidental partnership
- Charity Commission guidance for trustees
- The Charity Code of Governance
- Domestic abuse and child arrangements: a move forward on a long journey
- How bulletproof is your business?
- Prison authorities failed to keep a prisoner reasonably safe — a claim in negligence and for a breach of Article 3
- Public Sector Pensions on Divorce: A complex issue complicated further by the McCloud judgment
- When can a partner forfeit their partnership share?
- Private prosecutions — the future?
- Asbestos risks: a 2021 perspective
- Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Bill
- Unexplained Wealth Orders — what are they and how do they work?
- Doing the splits: EAT decision makes TUPE even more complex
- Under pressure: When a customer calls for an employee’s dismissal
- Weightmans acts in ground-breaking post-Brexit Kuwait Embassy case
- A quick guide to children law in England & Wales and Scotland — Part 1 — Parental responsibility
- An interim injunction against the world for a police informant
- Commonhold Council is launched
- Silent cyber cover: changes to the Minimum Terms and Conditions for solicitors
- Digital divorce — what is it and is it here to stay?
- A quick guide to children law in England & Wales and Scotland — part 2 — Court process for children hearings
- Judge finds fundamental dishonesty after ex-employee lies about his previous claims history
- The effective management of disputes and maximising charitable legacy income
- Make it easy — Lessons for the OIC
- A quick guide to children law in England & Wales and Scotland — Part 3 — moving children across the border
- Weightmans secure permission to bring committal proceedings against claimant who discontinued a large credit hire claim in the County Court
- Five top tips on preventing the non-return of children after holidays
- Changes to the QOCS in Scotland, from 30 June 2021
- Please don’t let me be misunderstood — The Approved Building Inspector
- HM Treasury Special Severance Payment Guidance Updated; the grip on the purse strings tighten
- Retail Innovation — Ethical use of personal data
- Pre-Pack Reforms — Sales to connected parties — Time to evaluate
- Nervous shock and claims for psychiatric injury
- The Fire Safety Act 2021
- Landlord update — Right to Rent checks from 1 July 2021
- Trust compliance: what do trustees need to do?
- Entry on MID does not bind motor insurer
- I think my child has been abducted — what should I do?
- I have been accused of abducting our child — what should I do?
- The Government proposes to extend the limitation period
- The law relating to divorce and civil partnership is changing
- The Natural Capital agenda
- When expert engineering evidence in a vehicle damage and credit hire claim is not what it seems
- National Security and Investment Act comes into force from January 2022
- Insider cyber threats — recognising the risk
- Equal rights for all — it’s been a long time coming…
- Success fees in mesothelioma claims
- Will a contractual change be void under TUPE even if it benefits the employee?
- Eradicating modern slavery
- Building Safety Bill 2021
- Focus on energy storage
- PPAs — a new way for procuring renewable power
- Health and Safety Executive to enforce head injuries in sport?
- High Court strikes out various claims relating to cyber-attack
- Trust disputes — what, why and who?
- A guide to the most common types of Contentious Probate Disputes
- Funeral disputes — what steps should be taken?
- The Environment Bill — key points for water companies to be aware of
- Donatio mortis causa (death bed gifts) — a doctrine validating gifts by the back door?
- Establishing fraudulent calumny — has the mind of the testator been ‘poisoned’?
- Fraud does not taint innocent partners
- Nuisance claim — the noise was there first
- Hydrogen Strategy
- Construction professionals: when will a duty of care arise to third parties?
- Natasha’s Law: new allergen labelling changes
- Creating a charitable trust
- A lesson in instructing experts in mental capacity assessments
- 'Show me the money' — a new solution to the social care challenge?
- Court of Appeal reviews vicarious liability in sexual abuse claims
- Britney Spears and capacity: how would her situation be addressed if she were based in England?
- New cross-system approach needed to end epidemic of violence against women and girls
- Conversion of civil partnership to a marriage in England and Wales
- Weightmans secure discontinuance in large loss employer’s liability claim
- Air pollution, human rights and health
- Contracts for Difference — the future for onshore solar and wind?
- Revised Energy National Policy Statements — a boost for large-scale solar PV
- What is cryptocurrency?
- Notice periods for seeking possessions of residential tenancies to return to pre-pandemic levels from 1 October 2021
- Recruiting and retaining key personnel
- How to avoid a partial intestacy: lessons from Big Brother
- Adapting to change: issues for digital estate planning
- Claimant was fundamentally dishonest in special damages claim
- UK Online Safety Bill
- UK Actuaries revise asbestos predictions
- Police officers working away from home overnight — on duty or on call?
- What are the special features of cryptoassets and how are they treated on relationship breakdown?
- Trivial data breach claim struck out
- Supreme Court provides clarification in the Brownlie 2 decision
- Navigating smart contract and cryptocurrency disputes — the key considerations from a litigator’s perspective
- Age discrimination: Can we set a mandatory retirement age for our staff?
- Menopause at work: Avoiding discrimination claims
- Claimant jailed for contempt of court
- Does a collateral warranty constitute a ‘construction contract’?
- Liquidated damages and partial possession
- Post six year run-off cover
- Joint Contracts Tribunal sound a warning regarding assignment clauses
- Adjudication: three’s a crowd
- Claimant jailed for seven months for contempt of court
- Official Injury Claim quarterly data releases
- Sector Risk Profile 2021 — what registered providers need to look out for
- Working remotely from abroad — how employers can minimise the risk of legal consequences
- Possession Proceedings — an end to review dates
- Court awards damages exceeding £1.3 million
- Can employers bypass collective bargaining? The Supreme Court decides
- Playing with public money — another reason for GPs to pay close attention to practice finances
- Custody officer’s power to deny bail after charge on ‘own interest’ or ‘own protection’ grounds preserved
- The pitfalls of relying on consumer forums for legal advice: a cautionary tale about excess mileage clauses in hire purchase agreements
- Green warehousing
- The Environment Act 2021
- Importance of avoiding making misleading environmental claims
- Ten top tips to consider when separating
- Contributory negligence: getting into a drunk driver’s car
- Evaluating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors in public procurement
- Franchising — dealing with data breaches
- Less than 2 months to go: how to proactively resolve Christmas child arrangements disputes
- Construction insurance claims and supply chain issues
- Weightmans secures trial win for one of the UK’s largest retailers
- Environment Act 2021 — Storm overflows
- Alternative dispute resolution in family law
- Extension to the regulations for smoke and carbon monoxide alarms
- The implications of Lloyd v Google: Prove your loss or fail to succeed
- The regulation of hydrogen — what will it look like?
- Lifetime gifts – allowances to consider
- Directors beware! New disqualification rules to curb abuse of the company dissolution process
- Strict liability and non-dangerous animals
- New homes carbon reduction
- Heat — a new regulated utility
- An update on family groups in England and Wales and how the law applies to them
- New Year, New Highway Code…
- Public sector equality duty — the importance of reviewing action in the light of new evidence
- No fooling about when it comes to vicarious liability!
- Do I need to stop you driving onto my land?
- Court of Appeal delivers a blow to insurers challenge to Benefits Recovery Act
- Highway Code Changes 2022: What does it mean for cyclists?
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