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- On Balance - Winter 2017
- Article 50 challenge in the Court
- The potential impact of Brexit on holiday pay & working time
- The Great Repeal Bill
- Brexit in a page - what do I need to know? Triggering Article 50
- The problem of Brexit harassment
- We're out
- We’ve voted to leave the EU. What happens now?
- Brexit in a page - what do I need to know? Triggering Article 50 and negotiations
- Brexit unveiled - Theresa May reveals negotiation plans for Brexit
- Section 431 elections
- The implications of the Vnuk case
- Reduction of share capital: the solvency statement
- Earn out: ensure that you take tax advice
- Pre-action disclosure applications
- Directors' liability – tax and insolvency
- Must we continue to provide childcare vouchers to employees on maternity leave?
- The Modern Slavery Act 2015: disclosure obligations coming soon
- Brexit: Where next for employment law?
- 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
- Reforms to public sector exit payments
- Employees with criminal convictions: A right to work?
- Changes to notification of auditor resignations
- Public sector exits: are big payments 'on the way out'?
- Entrepreneurs’ Relief: What classes of shares count towards the threshold?
- Eleventh UK corporate manslaughter conviction
- Disability discrimination: all about the case
- Fines for corporate manslaughter and health & safety offences look set to increase dramatically
- Cap on Magistrates' Courts sentencing powers lifted
- The National Living Wage: the details
- What will the Apprenticeship Levy mean for your business?
- TUPE: The difficulties in disease litigation
- Colour Quest Ltd v Total Downstream UK Plc
- Must an attendance policy be ‘adjusted’ for a disabled employee?
- Beware the covert recorder
- Recent developments in inquests law
- 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?
- Justifying early termination and varying contracts by email
- 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
- HSE’s Health and Safety Statistics 2015
- Corporate manslaughter – an update
- Well adjusted? Disciplinary proceedings for disabled employees
- 'Pulling a sickie' just got tricky
- Release of corporate debt: watch out for hidden tax charges
- Will home-working work for you?
- Enforceability of restrictive covenants in sale agreements
- Is the clock ticking? The importance of time limits in judicial review
- Deportation and mental disorder
- English language requirement for public sector workers: draft Code of Practice
- SDLT and VAT in property transactions
- An introduction to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
- Ill-health early retirement from LGPS: Independence test for certifying medical practitioner
- When sick staff work elsewhere
- Implying rights into a completed transfer of land
- Developments in VWF, HAVS and CTS claims?
- How much HR involvement is appropriate in a disciplinary process?
- No need for an Article 2 inquest - High Court overturns coroner's decision
- Product liability - contaminated food stuffs
- Dismissing statutory whistleblowers in local government
- TUPE - a special assignment - how to spot those employees who transfer, those who don’t and those who might!
- Public sector apprenticeship targets: What you told us
- Update to the Transactions in Securities rules
- 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
- Exclusion of Service by fax - not worth the paper it's written on?
- Pensions and data protection
- Didcot Power Station latest update
- The CCTV Code of Practice
- Are you being served?
- Proposed HSWA Self Employed Exemption Amended
- Termination of a contract for repudiatory breach
- Linley Developments fined £200,000
- Chasing debts and harassment claims
- Reasonable adjustments for disabled employees: new ACAS guidance
- Housing stock transfer – Do I need consent?
- Standing up to the supermarkets
- The Apprenticeship Levy: Further details released
- Supreme Court decision in the textile deafness litigation
- Assignment of rent: an effective remedy against defaulting borrowers?
- Harmonising contracts after a transfer - Court of Appeal confirm it's risky
- Employer 'fined' £65k for changing terms and conditions
- Successor practice - pitfalls and premiums
- Preece v JD Wetherspoons plc
- Analysis of health and safety statistics across the UK
- Prevent Duty Guidance for the Higher Education sector
- Successful appeals and the curious case of the vanishing dismissal
- Storm in a coffee cup: Starbucks loses dyslexia discrimination case
- Piercing the corporate veil
- High heels and the law: discriminatory dress codes
- Uber issues: the tip of the employment iceberg?
- The Modern Slavery Act 2015: publication of a slavery and human trafficking statement
- Tax efficient extraction of surplus cash
- Travis Perkins fined £2m after a customer was killed at its yard
- Provisional damages - familiarity breeding contempt?
- Next stop: employment issues?
- An improper purpose
- CAV Aerospace Ltd fined £1 Million
- Settling an employment claim? Consider tax
- Hague Visby Rules – cargo damage and the shifting burden
- The Cities and Local Authorities Devolution Act 2016
- Directors’ duties: the need to keep the board informed
- First corporate manslaughter prosecution of a Care Home and an NHS Trust
- 'Off-payroll' working: government consultation
- Brexit: working time, annual leave and holiday pay
- Mandatory gender pay reporting
- TUPE: who is the 'client' in a service provision change?
- Site manager and safety consultant jailed after labourer’s death
- The National Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Society Limited v HSBC Insurance (UK) Limited
- What evidence should we disclose to the Coroner?
- PS & JE Ward corporate manslaughter trial commences
- Brexit – What will it mean for Environmental Regulation?
- Student mental wellbeing in Higher Education
- A VAT update for FE colleges and universities
- Testing witness evidence against other documents
- Costs budgeting – the way forward?
- Low Level asbestos exposure
- The evolving landscape of foreseeability in tree root subsidence cases
- Share purchases: vendor protection on warranty claims and basis of interpretation
- Stress claims - how to prevent them
- Corporate raids and proper purposes
- Recent developments in claims for defective products – where does the burden of proof lie?
- Environmental offences: more changes ahead
- Change in accounting standards and the implications for transactions involving “small” companies
- Allotment rents increase unlawful
- Protection from Harrassment Act 1997
- Appeals against H&S enforcement notices – the role of the UK employment tribunal
- Shared Parental Leave & Pay
- Stretching the truth: what to do when an applicant lies on their CV
- Landlord and tenant - accepting surrender and waiving right to forfeit
- Conflict at the Christmas party – disciplinary sanctions when staff ‘come to blows’
- Hussain v Amin & Anor
- Plana v First Capital East Ltd
- Must we 'put the brakes' on disciplinary proceedings to deal with a grievance?
- Gender pay gap reporting – what you need to do now
- BIFA Terms revisited: time bar and set off
- Vicarious liability: defending your business against claims
- Defined Contribution Scheme Governance
- Sugar Hut Group Ltd v Great Lakes Reinsurance (UK) Ltd Plc
- Academy trusts and governance requirements
- Changes to business immigration rules announced
- What happens when the money runs out?
- Restrictive covenants: seeking remedies
- What effect will Brexit have on TUPE?
- Unfair prejudice: an imaginative solution to a difficult problem
- Staffing up for Christmas? Get your ‘Right to Work’ checks right
- The battle of the bulge; pre Jackson noise claims and fraud
- Why do you need a shareholders' agreement?
- TUPE – short term duration exception is narrowed
- Sale of Goods contracts: Seller’s liability for sub-contracts
- Zero hours contracts: zero impact?
- Waiting matters: Laytime exceptions under Sugar charterparty
- Various Claimants v Giambrone & Law (A Firm) & 5 Others, 7 July 2015, HC
- Term of employment
- William McIlroy Swindon Limited (1) & Rannoch Investments Limited (2) v Quinn Insurance Limited
- Whistleblowing: who can claim?
- Private prosecutions
- NYPE Interclub Agreement: beware conflicting time bars
- Omega Proteins Ltd v Aspen Insurance UK Ltd
- A fair deal for pensions or an added complication?
- Optometrist charged with manslaughter by gross negligence
- Directors’ duties owed to the company not its shareholders
- Impact of the public contracts regime on the research funding marketplace
- Serious incident investigation reports and issues around disclosure
- Ambush marketing: savvy advertising or guerrilla tactics?
- 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
- GDPR: are you ready?
- The Internet of Things – do the privacy risks outweigh the advantages?
- Sports Direct in the spotlight
- The cost of reasonable adjustments
- Collective consultation: when does the consultation arise?
- Asking about employee health: lessons from the Glasgow bin lorry incident
- Fire damage – establishing causation, or not
- Root Cause Analysis Investigations - A short guide to effective report writing
- Early conciliation: our experiences
- Costs at disposal – how to avoid the success fee trap
- Edward Iliffe v Feltham Construction, 9 July 2015, CA
- Protecting authorities from harm: Cheshire West and Chester Council v Pickthall
- Discrimination law after Brexit
- Better case management – what’s it all about?
- Limitation matters - or does it?
- What consequences will the Consumer Rights Bill (if adopted) have on universities and students?
- When is a commercial contract a “construction contract” and why does it matter?
- CMA guidance to universities about consumer protection law
- Topshop workers exposed to asbestos
- Equity Syndicate Management Limited v (1) GlaxoSmithKline Plc; (2) Axa Corporate Solutions Assurance , 23 July 2015, HC
- ‘Exceptional circumstances’ for extending an appeal period
- JCT announces updates to its standard contracts
- Employee shareholder status
- Joint ventures – rise of the fiduciary duty
- Do you know which jurisdiction governs your contract?
- Commercial recoveries - dealing with vulnerable customers
- Managing long running PFI contracts: Portsmouth City Council v Ensign Highways Ltd
- Completing the deal where signatories are unavailable
- New anti-slavery laws: do you have a part to play?
- Entrepreneurs’ relief: do you own enough "ordinary shares"?
- 25 years on from the Hillsborough disaster – a call for changes to the law on psychiatric injury
- £1 million fine for Thames Water Utilities Ltd
- The gig economy: employment status in the spotlight
- Employment - compromise agreements
- Religion at work: new unfair dismissal ruling
- Employment update: Redundancy dismissals
- Environmental fines: the only way is up
- Continuing duty of care to former employees
- Real estate and smart property management
- How to: deal with a term-time working request
- Starting works without a contract
- Clare Horwood & Others v Land of Leather Limited (in Administration), Zurich Insurance PLC & Others
- The curious case of the wet laptop
- Universities, fixed terms and redundancies
- Section 33 – a little clarity
- The Rooney Rule: is football ‘ahead of the game’ in positive discrimination?
- Spring budget and April 2016 employment law changes
- McCain Foods fined for safety failings
- Processor or controller - the data divide
- Dancing for a job? A cautionary tale for recruiters
- Delay and interim orders in regulatory proceedings
- Religious dress at work: conflicting opinions from the ECJ
- Compliance with notice provisions: pitfalls of an electronic era
- Firm fined after forklift truck operator is crushed to death
- Something “radically different”? A look a charterparty frustration
- Do you need a motive for dishonesty?
- Back to basics: top 10 tips on dealing with flexible working requests
- Where next for Employment Tribunals?
- Retla Clause: Does it apply to all kinds of rust of whatever severity?
- Charging for parking - and for other services
- Share purchase agreements and restrictive covenants
- Athens Convention: Passenger injury claims in International Waters
- Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police v Jelic
- Deck Cargo and the Hague-Visby Rules
- Crystal company sentenced over injury to worker
- Contracts and penalty clauses: can you enforce an obligation that arises on breach?
- Lending to friends: don’t assume that you’re secure
- Personal protective equipment
- Yorkshire Water fined £350,000 for sewage pollution of Harrogate watercourse
- Health and safety sentencing guidelines – fines on the increase
- The palaver of public sector exit payments
- Entrepreneurs’ Relief: tightening the belt?
- Rates avoidance – all right for some?
- Flexi-time: no requirement to pay for unused hours on dismissal
- HSE release a new health and safety system strategy: “Help Great Britain Work Well”
- Q&A: holiday during sickness absence
- Ejector seat maker Martin-Baker receives fine of £800,000 for CoSHH failings
- NHS Foundation Trust fined over patient death
- TUPE - the duty to inform and consult
- Variation to employment contracts
- Managing sickness absence: five top tips
- A broader interpretation of exclusions on liability?
- Setting high standards: The new defined Contribution Code of Practice
- Lien or bust: insolvency and charterparty liens on sub freights
- Conviction for attempted £2.3 million insurance claim
- Possibility of no further inquests for deaths under DoLS?
- Work experience and health & safety
- Voyage charters and demurrage: interpreting strike exceptions
- Investigating claims - the do's and don'ts
- Handling Grievances: I have two employees who refuse to work together, what should I do?
- £1.3 million fine following scaffolder’s death
- Equal pay update: what does the recent ASDA judgment mean for me?
- An innovative means of protecting your business or a means of stifling innovation?
- CRC scheme to be scrapped
- Joined-up thinking about mental health
- Employee must still be paid even whilst suspended on serious fraud charges
- Will the law enforce an illegal contract?
- It’s immaterial: Marine insurance and policy avoidance
- What is working time?
- Best value consultation – ignore it at your peril
- Disciplinary defence costs
- Corporate Manslaughter Convictions, Directors and Companies
- PSC Registers: a sledgehammer to crack a nut?
- The Adult Social Care White Paper
- Break clauses: failure to comply strictly with notice requirements may not always be fatal
- Shared services?
- Princes Sporting Club Limited Convicted of Corporate Manslaughter
- A basic guide to disclosure
- HSE responds to UCATT release on construction deaths statistics
- Drafting and interpretation of indemnity clauses
- The Defamation Act 2013 - will it make a difference?
- The last chance saloon: hire default and anti technicality notices
- FFI hourly rates increase
- Funding of UK manufacturing: do large corporates have a part to play?
- Plymouth plumber sentenced for putting lives at risk with false gas safety checks
- Acquiring a business: the crucial role of HR
- Moving forward with the new share buyback regulations
- Sentencing guidelines
- Higher education providers to join complaints handling scheme as stated by the Consumer Rights Bill
- Higher education and construction – some current trends
- Costa Del Office
- HSE / CQC Liaison Agreement
- Q&A: Do we need to change our Shared Parental Leave Policy?
- Immigration update – rule changes impacting employers
- Changing workplace policies and procedures
- New sentencing guideline for guilty pleas
- Digital tax accounts: Big Brother?
- Breaking-up then moving on…? The effect of post-termination restrictions
- Landlords could face liability for tenants unpaid water bills
- Reasonable redeployment
- Court of Appeal rules in two cases on welfare reforms
- The 12 days of (Employment Law) Christmas!
- Unannounced HSE construction inspections fall 15% since 2012
- Internal conflict - interns and your organisation
- Shell UK sentenced over “worst North Sea spill in a decade”
- New rules, new games being played?
- Are your staff aware that they could be 'disqualified by association'?
- UPS Ltd v S Harrison (2012) EAT
- What happens when a contract doesn’t say what you thought it said?
- Discussion Paper: Newly Proposed Sentencing Guidelines
- School academies explained: a beginners guide to setting up academies
- The EL/PL Portal – the latest figures and observed behaviours
- Recovery or disposal?
- British Telecom fined for management failures
- Family friendly working and parental leave
- Quarry operator sues its health and safety consultant after £200,000 fine
- Record fine for Total following North Sea gas leak
- £80,000 fine issued to chemical firm following factory explosion
- Death-in-service benefit – still a benefit after dismissal?
- Local authority land as a tool for promoting growth
- New TUPE regulations published
- New year, new employment law
- Net contribution clauses – effectiveness confirmed
- Whither devolution in the post-Cameron and Osborne political age?
- Charterparty damages: Owners’ claim for wasted expenses fails
- NHS charges – changes in sight?
- Offshore injury and governing law
- Bad teacher
- Amtek Aluminium Castings fined £250,000 after an employee suffered an injury to his hand on a drilling machine
- What effect will Brexit have on immigration?
- Private sector equal pay: the next big thing?
- Amending credit terms? Is your security still effective?
- Amendments to standard form contracts – how are ambiguities resolved?
- Derbyshire based Allen and Hunt Construction Engineers Ltd of Thorpe fined after worker fell 6 metres
- Redundancy scoring can still be unlawful disability discrimination
- Zero hours contracts: Your views
- A (Stamford) Bridge too far? Trouble at Chelsea FC
- All a matter of deduction
- Watling Tyres’ appeal against £1 million fine for fitter’s death fails
- Cyber security and research data – do your protocols amount to postulations?
- Appeal Court slashes C.RO Ports’ £1.8 million broken arm fine by 70%
- Worker suffers extensive injuries when engulfed by flames
- Imminent immigration law changes
- From Russia with love? The limits of English anti suit injunctions
- Beat the (January) blues
- University fined after worker sustained serious injury from bomblet explosion
- Can we scrap our employee bonus scheme?
- Suitable alternative employment? It’s all about what’s reasonable for that employee
- Deeds of Variation – Inheritance Tax avoidance?
- Divorce races: international forum disputes
- Powerday pay hefty sum
- How can excepted group life assurance schemes help you?
- Bedford Company to pay £415k after unsupervised teenage trainee dies
- Cyber liability and the protection of client data
- Re-organising the public sector
- A controversial compromise
- Focus on fire doors
- Hillsborough disaster: Jury reaches decision on unlawful killing
- The Circular Economy Package
- Star Wars film maker fined £1.6 million for injuring Harrison Ford
- No relief for dishonest claims
- The ice-bucket challenge – avoiding legal slip-ups
- Will Trade Union Act 2016 mean fewer strikes?
- Reforming Trade Union law: what you told us
- Expecting visitors? The new rules you need to know
- New environmental guidelines are really starting to bite
- Employee shareholders and share buybacks
- A gas safety reminder
- Judicial review of process for Fee for Intervention disputes scheduled for May 2017
- The science museum and the missing exhibit
- The importance of clear articles of association
- Delivering public services through mutual – addressing the employment issues
- An update following Hillsborough - a new ‘duty of candour’ for public officials?
- Telematics – the future of intelligent business management?
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust fined after safety failings led to dementia patient’s death
- Cookie grumbles
- Organised Fraud
- Members’ interests and trade union membership – Big Julie reopens Pandora’s box
- HAVS: Diagnosis and staging by Dr. Roger Cooke
- Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015
- Weightmans 'striking' success in novel argument
- Q&A - Maternity and paternity sharing provisions
- Are the courts prepared to rule on academic judgement?
- Internet service providers: duty to monitor
- Further guidance on the form of payment applications
- The Great Repeal Bill: The law to end all (EU) laws
- Council tax capping – a challenge is issued
- Workplace violence – employers' duties
- Health as well as safety
- Dismissal based on covert surveillance held to be fair
- Trade Union membership today
- Little helpers, big problems
- New incoterms rules to ‘set sail’ on 1 January 2011
- Elderly Resident Scalded
- The new SEN regime now in force, plus the associated new SEND code of practice
- Supporting employees through divorce
- Caste: an aspect of race
- £270k evaporates from BOC’s profits after cylinder blast
- Collective redundancies
- Q&A: Anti-Muslim sentiments expressed on social media
- Employee shareholder status – will it work for you?
- Adult Social Services - Litigation
- Regulations change for notifiable non-licensed work
- Maritime arbitration: care in commencement!
- Social media – the employee challenges and the steps to take
- Flexible or flimsy? Employment rights and the gig economy
- Public sector exit payment reforms
- SCAM-pi and chits
- Are Tribunals interested in tales of Arabian nights?
- The Chief Coroner’s report to the Lord Chancellor (2015/2016)
- Notice effective to exclude liability under the Misrepresentation Act 1967
- Are you ready for ‘Fit for work’?
- A change in H&S culture? “I don’t want us to be a society where a responsible employer gets the blame for someone doing something stupid
- Is ADR always better?
- Banning ‘exclusivity’ in zero hours contracts: what you told us
- A director’s authority to bind a company
- Landlord given suspended prison sentence over gas failings
- Collective agreements and TUPE
- Substantial property transactions and the acquisition of non-cash assets
- Discrimination on benefits based upon length of service?
- Government review of employment regulation
- Industrial action update
- Construction figures expected to reveal rise in deaths
- Cardiff County Council v Lee (Flowers) [2016] EWCA Civ 1034
- Twitter troubles?
- Examination of universities' policies on making course changes after students have enrolled
- Obesity - a huge workplace issue
- A lien encounter
- Immigration update
- Good payers highlighted by new regulations
- Social Media and the need for clear policies
- Complying with on demand guarantees
- Same sex marriage: the implications for your pension scheme
- New international environmental management standard published
- Christopher Edwards v London Borough of Sutton [2016] EWCA Civ 1005
- What does 'living in the same household' actually mean?
- Marine cyber fraud alert
- Investigation launched following discovery of medical records in a skip
- Limitation - defending NIHL claims
- LVI – a changing tide?
- Dransfield v Information Commissioner and Devon County Council
- R (on the application of Alexander) v Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education
- Court of Appeal averts risk of novel claims against local authorities for foster carer abuse
- Essential planning for a destination wedding
- Married at First Sight… divorced at second?
- Cycle helmets and contributory negligence revisited
- Reforming the Soft Tissue Injury (‘whiplash’) Claims Process Impact
- University of Wales v London College of Business Ltd [2015] EWHC 1280
- Child arrangements orders and the abolition of residence and contact
- Is your will wedding-proof?
- Atlantik Confidence – Breaking the 1976 Limitation for Maritime
- Hague Rules Package Limitation does not apply to bulk cargoes
- Applications for a parental order in surrogacy cases: landmark decision to prioritise welfare & human rights ahead of strict 6 month time limit
- New code to combat cyber attacks on ports and port systems
- Key points from the White Paper 2016
- What if people went on holiday and never came back?
- New inheritance rules came into force on 1 October 2014 for people who don’t have a will
- The New Year – time to get your affairs in order…
- More people should consider mediation, says top family lawyer
- Procurement challenge analysis 2013
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- Isle of Man leads the way with equal rights to civil partnerships
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- What happens when parental opinion is divided?
- Good communicators typically make better employers
- A lesson for unsuspecting Company Officers – recent SFO successes and what they mean for Company Officers
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- Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015: the HE sector’s duty to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism
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- The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) & UK Trusts
- Tough lessons to be learned in the education sector in light of new health and safety sentencing guidelines
- Silence is unreasonable
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- Byron Burger leaves a bad taste in the mouth after immigration raids
- Contracting out of right to limit liability
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- Evidence - 2015 in review
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- Striking academics – a breach of the student contract?
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- Be careful what you commit to
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- Flexible working: now open to all
- Using procurement to enhance the student experience and employability
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- Divorce Day
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- Key takeaways from the Spring Budget for SMBs
- Personal injury reforms
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- Lambretta fashion chain divorce highlights risks of not dealing with finances following a divorce
- Valentine's Day – the practicalities of romance
- It’s a boy! Will advice for young families
- Brexit roundup
- The Apprenticeship Levy: a guide for higher education institutions
- Strategic workforce planning
- R (on the application of Ullah) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2015)
- On Balance - Summer 2016
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- Can you pay shared parental leave differently to enhanced maternity pay? A Tribunal Judgment gives a clue to the answer
- Holiday pay claims: new limits on how much employees can claim
- Public sector exit payments to be reformed
- 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
- The Immigration Act 2016: What employers need to know
- Disablement pension – meaning of “permanently disabled” within the meaning of the police pensions regulations 1987 regulation a12
- Trade Union Bill introduces new requirements for industrial action
- The right to commission in holiday pay unLocked by UK Judgment
- Refusal to allow employee to be accompanied by his companion of choice was a breach of trust and confidence
- Timothy Metcalf v CPS
- Angel Copeland v Metropolitan Police
- DSD and NBV v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
- R (on the application of Karen Ann Manser) v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis
- Update on future changes to Tier 2 of the points based system
- Court of Appeal finds that disciplinary proceedings did not breach duty of care
- Gender pay gap reporting and what it means for you
- Who hears appeals is important
- Sofian Zenati v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and the CPS
- Judgment trains employers on sex discrimination risk with flexible working requests
- Laporte and Christian v Metropolitan Police
- Local Government, Section 41 Highways Act 1980, personal injury
- DSD and NVB v Metropolitan Police
- Measure of damages for early redelivery under a time charterparty
- Employees absent due to ill health may not TUPE transfer
- Employment termination payments, tax and injury to feelings
- Not indirect discrimination to retire police officers by implementation of A19
- Misconduct dismissal and the problem of an investigator’s edits
- Recoverable damages for wasted staff costs
- Confidentiality of settlement discussions with employees clarified
- Supreme Court judgment reminds employers of the risk of reinstatement orders
- Lock decision: Holiday Pay must include commission confirms Court of Appeal
- Dismissal of head teacher for failure to disclose potential safeguarding risk was fair
- What must be discussed with Unions is narrow, confirms High Court
- McDonnell v Metropolitan Police and another
- R (on the application of AB and CD) v Huddersfield Magistrates’ Court and West Yorkshire Police
- Probation, human rights, article 8, judicial review
- Trevor Gray v Police Appeals Tribunal (defendant) and Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire (interested party)
- OW Bunker crisis – clarity on shipowners’ bunker payment obligations
- Van Colle v United Kingdom
- Cruz v The Chief Constable of Lancashire Police
- Antenatal appointments: new law in force
- Employment Appeal Tribunal gets its teeth into reasonable adjustments
- A political substitution
- Bostridge v Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust [2015] – Court of Appeal
- R (on the application of Sisangia) v The director of legal aid case work
- Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act becomes law
- Local government, psychiatric injury, stress, Protection from Harassment Act 1997
- AB v Chief Constable of X [2015] EWHC 13
- R (on the application of Mills) v Sussex Police and another
- Employment Tribunal fees survive Unison challenge
- Local government, employer’s liability, personal injury
- Disciplinary action for an employee’s unwelcome religious discussion can be lawful
- Court of Appeal finds unlawful discrimination by bakery, in the case of the Bert & Ernie cake
- Football banning case
- Does the Athens Convention time bar apply to contribution claims?
- Highways, fraud, contempt proceedings
- High Court overturns NHS England's decision on refusal of drug funding
- Local government, Misfeasance in public office
- Lee-Hirons v Secretary of State for Justice [2016] UKSC 46
- Housekeeper’s failed appeal, provides final warning reassurance
- R (on the application of Darren Williams) (claimant) v Police Appeals Tribunal (defendant) and Metropolitan Police (interested party)
- Court of Appeal say Tribunals should consider historic warnings, so should you?
- Government may challenge validity of industrial action says High Court
- Local government, personal injury, Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957
- First Twitter dismissal appeal holds warning for employers
- Department for Education publishes updated privacy notices for schools and local authorities
- Rathband and others v Chief Constable of Northumbria
- Undercover police officer stress claim, misuse of drugs and ex turpi causa
- Holiday pay and what you need to do in response to the BMA
- Tax on employment termination payments to change, but £30,000 exemption survives
- Travelling to work is working time confirms the ECJ
- Hiring agency staff during industrial action
- Euro 2016 - ACAS say have a good team line, but are you ready for kick-off?
- R (on the application of Delezuch) v Chief Constable of Leicestershire & Others R (on the application of Duggan) v Association of Chief Police Officers & Others
- Mentioning someone’s race is not always unlawful harassment
- Collective Redundancy: Have you committed a criminal offence?
- S.11 repairing obligations in the Supreme Court
- The professional duty of candour: new guidance for doctors, nurses and midwives
- McCarthy v Chief Constable of Merseyside Police
- Well-managed highway infastructure - a new approach to highway maintenance
- R [on the application of Nunn] v The Chief Constable of Suffolk Constabulary and another [2014] UKSC 37
- Uber drivers, workers rights and what it means for you
- Time spent carrying out Union activities was not working time
- Gender pay gap reporting – what you will need to do finally confirmed
- Employment law developments – obesity, holiday pay claims and Tribunal fees
- R (on the application of P) v Thames Valley Police
- The duty to make reasonable adjustments – what you can learn from the case of the wheelchair v the buggy
- Examining violence against women, harassment and hate crime affecting university students
- Redundancy pay (and other statutory limits) to rise again
- R (on the application of TL) v Chief Constable of Surrey
- Question: Why didn't I get a First?
- R (Hicks) v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis
- Holiday pay: Q and A
- Case Comment – Selda Dursan v J Sainsbury Plc (2015) [2015] EWHC 233 (QB)
- HS2 – Payment of subcontractors
- What have the Working Time Regulations done for us?
- Investigations: how far is far enough?
- QOCS and fundamental dishonesty – a question of purpose?
- Checking your Santa (and the end of CRB checks)
- Omission cases in Common Law Negligence… it's elementary my dear Watson
- Article 50 Judgment of the Supreme Court
- Still no place to hide
- Recent developments in the fight against fraudulent claims
- Political campaigning in the workplace
- Flexible working: increasingly complex
- Do adult trespassers face a "no entry" to compensation?
- R (on the application of Ramey) v University of Oxford (2015)
- 65,500 reasons to provide employee liability information (and ensure its accurate)
- On Christmas Day in the morning (I’ll be at work!)
- IOP Appeal: D v. General Medical Council [2015] EWHC 847 (Admin)
- New government guidance on use of cloud software services
- Metal and Waste Recycling Ltd fined £49,500 for employee lead exposure
- Montpellier Estates v Leeds City Council [2013] EWHC 166 (QB)
- Summer of football leads to fears of domestic violence
- Nicole Enterprises Ltd pleads guilty to corporate manslaughter
- Are you ready for change? The Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM) 2015
- Competing jurisdiction issues – Am Trust Europe Ltd v Trust Risk Group SpA [2014] EWHC 4169 (Comm)
- The sky’s the limit for flight delay claims
- The devil's in the detail
- Small claims track
- The Insurance Act
- Changes to funding of civil litigation claims
- Portal claims with fixed costs
- No real change for disease claims in the Portal
- A view from the Portal
- Occupational disease case law update
- Personal injury reform announced
- Article 50 appeal to the Supreme Court
- House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution report on Parliament and the Article 50 process
- The effect of Brexit on cross border litigation
- General Election 2017: what’s in store for employment law?
- 'Sleep-ins' the National Minimum Wage: guidance from the EAT
- Employment Tribunal decisions online: resource or risk?
- Working Time Regulations: what happens when employees have multiple jobs?
- Girls’ school fined after teacher seriously injured in fall from height
- New study shows fire fighters face increased heart attack risk
- Employers obliged to protect their staff from diesel fumes
- Salad growing company fined after injury during felling
- Water company fined after death of employee
- Travelling abroad with children
- When is one party’s contribution to the marital assets 'special' enough to affect a divorce settlement?
- IHT changes – residence nil rate band
- Paying the buyer's costs
- Text or context makes little difference if you enter a bad bargain
- Discount Rate lowered to minus 0.75%
- Increase in cohabitation leaves many without legal protection
- Betting on change – new legal powers for councils to stop the rise of high street bookies
- Lancashire hotel fined after manager engulfed in fireball
- What if I don’t want my Inheritance?
- The Data Protection Act - a 'distressing' development?
- Wife is awarded 90 percent of husband's wealth because she gave up her career – is this a fair assessment of the judgment in the case of Peter and Jane Morris?
- Brief encounters: a move away from sharing in short marriages
- Brexit: divorce talks begin
- Your business: what happens upon death?
- What is the difference between civil partnership and equal marriage?
- Don't be an April fool...
- Probate fees: jump from £155 to £20,000
- The dangers of DIY probate
- Spring Budget 2017 - a summary
- Court bars millionaire banker who refused to pay maintenance from making further applications
- The call for 'no fault divorce' increases following recent Court of Appeal case
- Calculating strike pay deductions, important decision from the Supreme Court
- In indirect discrimination, the reason why is not relevant says the Supreme Court
- Insisting on a multiple choice test found to be disability discrimination
- Data on deals
- Truck cartel
- How to stay afloat in the face of cyber-attacks
- Putting assets out of reach of creditors: Marex Financial v Sevilleja Garcia
- Making tax digital: update
- References: a quick reference guide
- Social media misconduct: can we dismiss an employee for damaging our reputation?
- Industrial relations update: five new cases
- Data on deals: what are your obligations?
- Court gives protection to officers acting in good faith on defective injunction
- The cost of discriminating in employment increases
- Safety representative guide shows gender divide in workplace risks
- Civil engineering company and tree surgery company fined after member of public injured by fencing wire
- Theme park and contractor fined after five-year-old injured
- Company sentenced following uncontrolled fire
- Holding chief officers to account – the margin of appreciation
- A new government and a new agenda?
- The Taylor Review – big changes on the way for employment-related law
- Waste company fined after worker suffers severe burns
- Care home fined nearly half a million pounds following elderly resident fall
- Building owner fined following uncontrolled collapse onto high street
- Tesco hit with £8 million fine following pollution incident
- Test for public interest in whistleblowing is complex - but not met simply by another employee being affected
- CQC to begin examining patient deaths
- The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill and negotiation position papers
- Second referendum?
- Updating the test for testamentary capacity to make a will
- Law Commission Consultation on Modernising Wills
- Parents' Day – promoting positive parental relationships
- Dealing with disability-related sickness absence
- What will the General Data Protection Regulation mean for HR?
- Discrimination by association: opening Pandora’s Box?
- LADs and penalty clauses – important reading for all associated with the construction industry
- When absence goes AWOL
- When cost-saving redundancy is identified as a result of ill-health absence, is it disability discrimination?
- Employment Tribunal fees unlawful says Supreme Court
- Pensions Update: Supreme Court rules on equal pension rights for same sex spouses
- Holiday sickness: Can an employee claim back holiday if they are unwell on leave?
- The gig-economy: are there legal risks in your employment agreements?
- Data Protection Update
- The latest holiday pay decision expands the concept of “normal remuneration” again
- Time to finish unfinished business?
- A matter of timing
- Care needed when making demands for a service charge
- No damages for ‘loss of personal autonomy’ due to failure to obtain informed consent
- Examining the scope of vicarious liability
- Civil partnerships v marriage – is divorce the same?
- Unfair dismissal awards increase (particularly for some employers)
- Brexit: how a change in career path - and location - may impact family life
- Restrictions on title: management companies
- Divorce settlements: How do you split the bill, when you split up?
- Tired of being kept in the dark? Defendants' pre-action applications for disclosure
- Owens v Owens: Supreme Court to decide on 'unreasonable behaviour' in divorce case
- England and Wales coroners’ statistics published
- Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome exposure results in fine for engineering firm
- Woman struck by scaffolding results in fines for two companies
- NHS Trust fined over in-patient’s death
- Sentencing Council guidelines review on gross negligence manslaughter
- HSE enforcement notices following fatal accident in US theme park
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- £1 million fine for NHS Trust following death in Lincolnshire
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