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  • Employment law and immigration law: two awkward siblings

    03 August 2022

    Employment law and immigration law are two distinct areas of law. On occasion, they meet each other and can create headaches for employers. We examine what happens when immigration law collides with discrimination law, unfair dismissal law and TUPE.

  • Two Employment Bills! Pod save the King

    23 July 2024

    Colin Leckey and Amy Russell-Hughes discuss the big employment law changes announced in the King's Speech on 17 July. They talk through how day 1 unfair dismissal rights are likely to be put into practice, why employers will have more collective consultation programmes and what's wrong with the plans on equal pay. And they address the key question - is the UK becoming like France but without the wine and cheese?

  • How to deal with Twitter spats: Katie Hopkins' expensive mistake

    04 April 2017

    Joint Managing Partner, Giles Crown, and Senior Associate, Oliver Fairhurst have written an article for The Lawyer Monthly which comments on Katie Hopkins' recent twitter spat turned libel battle with food blogger Jack Monroe.

  • Adam Glass comments for The Guardian: Landmarks in law: Sally Bercow and the first major 'Twibel' case

    29 May 2019

    Adam Glass has commented in an article for The Guardian which discusses how defamation cases used to focus primarily on broadcasters and newspapers – until social media changed everything.

  • Twi-bel: High Court Holds Defendant Liable for Agent’s Defamatory Tweet

    11 January 2019

    Just before Christmas, Mr Justice Nicklin gave us a present – his judgment in the case of Monir v Wood. The High Court found Mr Wood, the former Chairman of the UKIP Bristol branch, liable for the publication of a defamatory tweet posted by someone else on the branch’s twitter account.

  • Jo Farmer comments for Raconteur: Protecting IP from bloggers and tweeters

    26 April 2017

    Jo Farmer has commented in an article for Raconteur which discusses the complexity of protecting possible infringements of intellectual property rights on social media.

  • A glazing error: Perez terminates sunglass deal after sponsor's inappropriate tweet

    28 November 2016

    Just when we thought Donald Trump’s contribution to 2016 couldn’t get any more unlikely, his controversial presidential campaign has been cited as the cause of the recent split between Mexican F1 driver, Sergio Perez and his sunglasses sponsor, Hawkers.

  • TV & Film

    We support all the stakeholders in this content creation sector transitioning from the perception of a “traditional” media to a digitally supported production and exploitation environment.

  • Leading film and TV lawyer Phil Rymer joins Lewis Silkin

    25 April 2012

    City law firm Lewis Silkin LLP today announces the appointment of Phil Rymer as a partner in the Media, Brands & Technology (MBT) team. Phil joins the firm from serving as Principal of his own firm, Rymer Media Law, which he established in 2009.

  • Government to extend review to include gambling adverts on TV

    07 October 2016

    The front page of The Times reports today that the government is to extend its review into Fixed Odds Betting Terminals to cover gambling advertisements on TV, amid concerns about the proliferation of gambling adverts and their exposure to children.

  • Geraint Lloyd-Taylor comments for The Guardian: Hey Alexa, is it true a TV advert made Amazon Echo order cat food?

    14 February 2018

    Geraint Lloyd-Taylor comments in an article for The Guardian, which discusses the issues caused by Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa, placing orders from TV ads.

  • Geraint Lloyd-Taylor comments for Pink News: Gay-themed TV adverts dominate ‘most complaints’ list

    21 February 2018

    Geraint Lloyd-Taylor comments in an article for Pink News, discussing the list of 10 adverts the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority received the most complaints about from the public; with 3 of the top 10 showing LGBT themes.

  • Tusk luck, May

    31 March 2017

    EU Council President Donald Tusk has sent negotiation guidelines to European capitals in advance of a summit at the end of April 2017 to determine the agenda for Brexit negotiations. Tusk’s document sets out three sequential stages for the Brexit negotiations, which conflicts with UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposal for negotiations regarding withdrawal and trade to be undertaken simultaneously.

  • May turns to June: General election called

    19 April 2017

    UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced a general election, to be held on 8 June 2017.

  • How the regulatory tide is turning against greenwashing brands in 2023: Brinsley Dresden comments for The Drum

    26 January 2023

    Legal experts and regulatory bodies explain how brands will find it more difficult to greenwash their products in 2023.

  • Trading in turbulent times: has the bar got higher again?

    12 October 2020

    UK businesses are facing a tough month. Uncertainty abounds with localised Covid restrictions on the horizon and a perfect storm is brewing: 29 September was a rent quarter day for many businesses and the furlough scheme is set to be withdrawn at the end of October. With 11% of the British workforce on furlough (according to ONS data), many are staring into the abyss.

  • Artwork at Arbor: Oxbow, Locomotive, Resaca and Turbine by Jonathan Lawes

    Jonathan Lawes is a Peckham-based artist that creates prints with a distinctive graphic edge, reflecting his love of geometry, shape and pattern. These artworks are formed by abstract compositions created organically and develop over time due to his genuine enthusiasm for the printing process.

  • M&A, Outsourcing & TUPE

    Understanding and correctly applying TUPE is a critical part of the process of buying and selling businesses, outsourcing and internal group reorganisations.

  • Equal pay, TUPE and insolvency

    24 January 2018

    The issue for the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) in a recent case was what happens to historic equal pay liabilities when claimant employees transfer under TUPE on to a new employer in the context of the transferor employer’s insolvency.

  • Can restrictive covenants survive a TUPE transfer or are they TUPE’doed?

    24 April 2019

    “To be, or not to be: that is the question.” Many will know these to be Hamlet’s words early in the eponymous play. TUPE or not TUPE (with respect to restrictive covenants) is a thought that most buyers of a business have, but often too late in the day. What do these two have in common? Potentially tragic consequences.

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