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  • Ask About... Retail, Fashion and Hospitality

    27 November 2019

    Many of our clients in the retail, fashion and hospitality sector face similar HR issues. Each month one of the members of our team will identify an issue, consider how it should be dealt with and provide our advice. This month we asked Emma...

  • Ask About… Retail, Fashion and Hospitality

    16 December 2019

    Many of our clients in the retail, fashion and hospitality sector face similar HR issues. Each month one of the members of our team will identify an issue, consider how it should be dealt with and provide our advice. This month we asked James...

  • Ask About... Fashion, Retail and Hospitality

    04 February 2020

    Many of our clients in the retail, fashion and hospitality sector face similar HR issues. Each month one of the members of our team will identify an issue, consider how it should be dealt with and provide our advice. This month we asked James….

  • Gender pay gap reporting - analysing the 2020 results

    13 October 2021

    Employers had until 5 October 2021 to publish their gender pay gap statistics relating to April 2020. What have we learned from the results?

  • Gender pay gap reporting 2021: our analysis of the latest results

    07 April 2022

    Employers had until 4 April 2022 to publish their gender pay gap statistics relating to 5 April 2021. Now that the results are in, we’ve taken a look at what they reveal.

  • Gender pay gap reporting 2022 – our analysis of the latest results

    17 April 2023

    What do the latest set of gender pay gap reporting figures tell us? Employers had until 4 April 2023 to report their statistics for 2022. We’ve analysed the data to discover the trends.

  • Gender pay gap reporting 2023 – our analysis of the latest results

    11 April 2024

    Employers had until 4 April 2024 to report their gender pay gap statistics for 2023. Although some employers are likely to file late, we’ve analysed the current data to identify the trends.

  • Employee ordered to pay over £500,000 in legal costs in a dispute involving breach of restrictive covenants and data privacy

    24 May 2019

    Following a trial in the High Court where an employer was successfully awarded final injunctions to prohibit a former employee from breaching post-termination restrictions (“PTRs”), the losing employee was ordered to pay 90% of his former employer’s legal bill.

  • Restrictive covenants: key reminders recently highlighted by the Court of Appeal

    06 April 2020

    In the recent case of Guest Services Worldwide Limited v David Shelmerdine the Court of Appeal found that a non-compete clause, restricting Mr Shelmerdine for a period of 12 months after he ceased to hold shares, was binding. The clause prohibited Mr Shelmerdine, a shareholder who was also a consultant of Guest Services Worldwide Limited (GSW), from being interested in competing businesses.

  • Restrictive covenants in the recruitment industry

    25 August 2020

    Restrictive covenants, also known as post-termination restraints (“PTRs”), are widely used throughout the recruitment industry to protect businesses from the impact of employees leaving to set up or join a competing business.

  • Did contractual dispute resolution clauses have immunity from the effects of Covid-19 and the lockdown restrictions?

    08 April 2021

    As businesses plan to recommence operations, they must consider the legal implications of any action taken or contemplated to preserve contracts and business relationships and be alive to the potential consequences of action threatened or taken by other contracting parties. The actual or perceived amenable approach taken by some during the pressure of lockdown may quickly evaporate as the country returns to some sort of normality. This combined with economic uncertainty is likely to result in an increase in disputes.

  • Draft Code of Practice published on restricting “fire and rehire”

    09 February 2023

    The government has published a new draft Code of Practice which warns that “fire and rehire” should only be used to change employees’ terms and conditions as “a last resort” and urges employers to first engage in thorough and open information and consultation processes. The draft is open for consultation until April 2023.

  • EPO and EUIPO extend deadlines in response to COVID-19 pandemic

    26 March 2020

    As you will have seen, governments across Europe have issued a range of recommendations to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The various IP offices have recognised this will have an impact on the ability of rightsholders/ applicants/ opponents to meet their deadlines, and so each of the UKIPO, the IP Office of Ireland, the EUIPO and the EPO have announced that deadlines will be extended:

  • EPO and EUIPO extend deadlines in response to COVID-19 pandemic

    02 April 2020

    As you will have seen, governments across Europe have issued a range of recommendations to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

  • Oliver Fairhurst gives his perspective on responding to a crisis

    24 May 2022

    The legal implications of a negative reputational issue

  • How will M&A buyers respond to Covid-19?

    03 April 2020

  • Resourcing for 2021: Immediate options for employers

    25 February 2021

    As we move away from crisis management towards adapting to economic uncertainty and the “new normal”, identifying the best approach to resourcing staff is a business-critical issue. This is the first of a three-part series exploring the resourcing challenges, opportunities and trends we expect to see in 2021.

  • LSNetminder - Domain Name Management & Dispute Resolution

    21 May 2019

    It is now very rare to come across a business without any online presence. As a result, domain names have become a crucial aspect of intellectual property and one which requires careful management. Unauthorised third party registrations are now much more prevalent with fraudulent activity such as phishing and cyber squatting.

  • Commercial dispute resolution: navigating the economic downturn

    06 February 2023

    After-shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, sky-high inflation, “mini-budget” fiascos and the revolving door of number 10: as we settle into 2023, many of the political, humanitarian and economic events of 2022 and beyond continue to have a huge impact on businesses grappling with uncertainty and financial instability.

  • Hotels: Investing in branded residences

    01 September 2023

    Branded residences have grown in popularity across the global super-prime real estate market in recent years, especially since the pandemic. Secure and convenient luxury living, managed by the most prestigious of hotel brands, has proved appealing to many high-net-worth individuals. While purchase for personal use is more common across the globe, branded residences are emerging as an attractive investment asset in certain locations, including the Middle East. In this article, we explore the concept of branded residences as an investment and consider the likely commercial and legal challenges that operators and investors alike may face in the UK market.

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