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Far-right riots – how you can support your employees
08 August 2024The far-right riots across England and Northern Ireland are causing many to feel frightened and vulnerable. We look at your key obligations as an employer and provide top tips on how you can support your employees at this time.
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Are your contract terms easy to read – and are consumers bothering to read them anyway?
15 August 2024Show of hands - how many of you have actually read the terms and conditions on a website? If you did (well done!), did you understand them?
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How to ‘opt-out’ your images from use in AI training: German court considers the EU text and data mining copyright exceptions
07 October 2024The District Court of Hamburg has recently considered a dispute involving a professional stock image photographer Robert Kneschke, who discovered that links to some of his photographs had been included in a generative AI training dataset released by the German non-profit LAION.
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Baby Loss Awareness Week: how to support your employees
11 October 2024Baby Loss Awareness Week will be recognised in the UK from 9 to 15 October 2024. We consider what support can be provided to employees impacted by pregnancy and baby loss.
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Protecting your organisation's most valuable assets: your Ideas, People & Possibilities
05 November 2024Join us at our upcoming breakfast briefing, where we will discuss key strategies to protect your business from competitive risks.
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Software apps and patent trolls: Should you be afraid?
01 February 2012For a very long time there has been a debate as to whether software is better protected by copyright or by patents.
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You spin me right round : Lewis Silkin trainees cycle for charity
29 November 2012Lewis Silkin's 30 hour spinathon, which raised £7,610.63 for Helen and Douglas House, is discussed in an article on LawCareers.net.
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Collective agreements and TUPE - more dynamic than you might think
12 March 2013In Beerg's Global Labor newsletter, Katherine Shaw discusses the transfer of employees to another employer under TUPE.
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Delay: you cannot be serious!
11 June 2013In an article written for PLC Construction, James Levy discusses the frequent occurrence of delays in construction projects. As this affects the timescale of the project, it gives rise to the right to terminate.
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Why you should avoid the distractions of the annual financial reporting round
26 June 2013In an article for Managing Partner, Ian Jeffery discusses the first sets of annual results coming out of the UK's leading law firms for the financial year 11/12 and how prominence is often given to short term measures, such as profit per equity partner (PEP).
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What you need to know about the new Social Housing Fraud Act
15 October 2013In an article written for The Guardian's Housing Network, Paul Hayes discusses key aspects of the new act as well as raising questions that the act, designed to crack down on the estimates 100,000 social housing properties subject to fraud, leaves unanswered.
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Gay lawyers and the quiet revolution you haven’t even heard of
14 March 2014In an article for Pink News, Geraint Lloyd-Taylor discusses how the legal profession has been transformed by becoming gay-friendly.
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TRADER ALERT: Consumer Law Changes - Are You Ready for 13 June 2014...?
19 May 2014If you trade with consumers, you should read on! The (somewhat indelicately named) Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations come into force on 13 June 2014. They implement part of the Consumer Rights Directive and contain important changes.
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You’re cabbing a laugh (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 1)
27 September 2015The High Court has refused an application by the manufacturer of the iconic London black cab (“LTC”) for permission to adduce survey evidence in a claim for passing off.
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Modern Slavery Act: what you need to know
10 February 2016The Modern Slavery Act affects all businesses with a turnover of more than £36m. Legal and reputational risks loom. We’d be delighted if you could join us to discuss the new legislation and how your business will comply with it.
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Are you ready for TfL’s new ban on advertising?
01 July 2016It is unusual for a politician to fulfil an election pledge within the first 60 days of taking office. In fact, some politicians even refuse to take up office simply to avoid fulfilling an election pledge.
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Confirmation Statements - what you need to know in a nutshell
22 July 2016From 30 June 2016, the Annual Return (or Companies House Form AR01) has been replaced by the Confirmation Statement (or Companies House Form CS01).
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Can you tell what it is yet? (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 3)
23 October 2016Those looking to register shapes as trade marks have had a tough time of it recently. Attempts to register the shape of a Kit Kat, various bottles and a toothbrush have all recently failed in the UK and EU.
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Legal advice privilege: Not as wide as you think?
08 February 2017Who is a lawyer’s client and what type of communications are protected for the purposes of legal advice privilege have been the subject of two recent important High Court decisions. These cases make it clear that not all communications between lawyers and a client’s employees will be protected by legal advice privilege, even if the communication took place to allow legal advice to be given.
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Christmas counterfeits – How did you fare? (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 4)
08 February 2017At the end of 2016 the OECD/EUIPO released research suggesting that the total trade in counterfeit and pirated products in the EU amounted to as much as 85 billion Euros in 2013. Luxury goods are top of the list and firmly in the sights of counterfeiters for Christmas. So what was done to tackle the problem for Christmas 2016?