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I am a Senior Associate in the Employment, Immigration and Reward Division.
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I am a Senior Employment Lawyer in the LS In-house team with over 20 years’ experience in both private practice and in-house.
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Lewis Silkin wins HR Law Firm of the Year award at The Legal 500 Awards 2015
30 September 2015Lewis Silkin is delighted to be named winner of the HR Law Firm of the Year at this year’s The Legal 500 Awards.
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Court of Appeal has no appetite for salami slicing
25 January 2016Without prejudice privilege is founded upon public policy. It serves to encourage litigants to settle their differences. Its effect is to exclude all negotiations genuinely aimed at settlement (whether oral or in writing) from being referred to at trial. Solicitors will often head negotiating correspondence “without prejudice” yet protection is not dependent upon use of the label. It is often misused and arises automatically in appropriate circumstances. So what happens when no label is used and attendees of a meeting later disagree as to its status?
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The only constant changes to the UK Immigration Rules
08 November 2016Sponsored Migrants - the Tier 2 Skills Transfer subcategory will close on 24 November 2016.
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Employee shareholder status to be abolished
01 December 2016The tax-advantageous employee shareholder status (“ESS”) scheme is to be abolished from 1 December 2016, according to an announcement in the Chancellor’s recent Autumn Statement.
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Britain is open for business
15 December 2016British Embassy in partnership with Crowe Horwath hosts key meeting aimed at enlightening existing and potential entrepreneurs on the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the UK, post Brexit.
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Planning for employment law issues in your HR budget
19 January 2017With the annual budgeting process now underway in many businesses, we have taken a look at the expected employment law developments for the coming year and identified five non-core areas of potential spend/cost that HR directors may want to make allowance for in their 2017/18 budget.
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Businesses urged to think ahead before the introduction of the Immigration Skills Charge
27 January 2017From April 2017, the Immigration Skills Charge (ISC) will significantly increase the fees payable by employers when sponsoring skilled migrants.
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Supreme Court upholds spouse minimum income requirement
22 February 2017The Immigration Rules regulate immigration of non-Europeans into the UK. Under the Rules, a non-EEA spouse must earn £18,600 each year before being allowed to join their partner in the UK. The lawfulness of this “minimum income requirement” has been scrutinised and ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court, although with some criticism.
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The risk for employers in bypassing collective bargaining
16 March 2017Where an employer has recognised a trade union for collective bargaining purposes, can it still put an offer directly to its employees? This was the thorny issue for consideration in a recent Employment Tribunal decision.
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CMA offers cash for whistleblowers
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ICO fines Flybe and Honda
28 March 2017The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued data protection fines to two household names: Flybe and Honda, for sending marketing emails in breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (“PECR”).
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Court of Appeal confirms deterrent sentences for copyright infringement
30 March 2017In Regina v Evans the Court of Appeal has provided guidance on the appropriate level of sentencing for criminal offences under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. The Court of Appeal confirmed that the sentence should have a deterrent effect.
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Helping to shape the Global Driverless Revolution
03 May 2017In this article, we look at the road ahead for autonomous vehicles.
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Home Office has released statistics on illegal working penalties for the UK
19 June 2017The Home Office has released statistics on illegal working penalties totals for the UK from 1 October and 31 December 2016. 703 penalties were issued with total value of £11,595,000 (this value may be reduced through objections and appeals).
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Putting a squeeze on patent licences
20 June 2017The recent case of Chugai Pharmaceutical Co Ltd v UCB Pharma SA & Celltech R&D Ltd [2017] EWHC 216 (Pat)
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Validly serving a Statutory Demand is a prerequisite for presenting a Bankruptcy Petition
22 June 2017The court has stressed the importance of validly serving a Statutory Demand before presenting a Bankruptcy Petition. The creditor must do all that is reasonably required to bring the service of the Statutory Demand to the attention of the debtor. Without effectively serving a Statutory Demand on the debtor, presenting a valid Bankruptcy Petition is impossible.
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Australia - Work and Holiday visas and new six-year multiple-entry visas available for Singaporeans
27 June 2017Following the recent summit held in Singapore, it was announced that two new visa measures will come into place. These are the availability for Singaporeans to apply for Australia’s Work and Holiday Visa programme and the new six-year multiple-entry visa for business and tourism in 1 August 2017 and 1 January 2018 respectively.
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The Gambling Commission serve some stark warnings to operators
10 July 2017The Gambling Commission has slapped its first advertising-related fine against an online gambling operator for advertising that was deemed to fall foul of social responsibility rules and come to a settlement with another operator.