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Naomi Hanrahan-Soar writes for Tech Nation: Exceptional talent at work - exploring the scope of the Tech Nation Visa
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13 January 2020Naomi Hanrahan-Soar writes for Tech Nation discussing what exactly the Tech Nation Visa can mean for employers or their potential employees.
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Retaining key employees
09 January 2020Businesses’ Human Resources Departments constantly invest time in developing initiatives for talent acquisition and key staff retention, including reviews of appraisals systems and training opportunities. In this month’s bulletin, we would like to introduce two examples regarding the “election".
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IR35 full steam ahead despite review - we answer the practical questions
09 January 2020The proposed IR35 reforms in April 2020 represent the biggest change to employment tax for decades. The Government has launched a review, but there is no indication of a delay and so businesses must still concentrate on getting ready. In this insight, we set out some of the common questions which end-user businesses are asking, and our views on the answers.
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2020 Tech Predictions
08 January 2020Well, it’s that time of the year where we use our 20/20 vision to see what exciting technology changes lie ahead in the next year and beyond. As it’s 2020, we couldn’t resist the urge to treat you to 20 of our best tech predictions, which build on the themes from our Tech Predictions for 2019.
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Restrictive covenants and team moves: three key employee competition cases in 2019
08 January 2020A significant threat to any business is the risk of employees leaving to set up in competition and misusing confidential information or trade secrets in doing so. We look back at three of the most significant employee competition decisions of 2019 in this constantly evolving area of law.
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The year in employment law
08 January 2020What were the most significant employment law developments in 2019? And what can we expect this year under a newly elected Conservative government with a sizeable majority?
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The year ahead for immigration
07 January 2020With the new Conservative Government now bedding in and the Withdrawal Agreement Bill proceeding through Parliament, Brexit is all but certain to be going ahead at end of this month.
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Sports Q&A - What does Brexit mean for football transfers?
07 January 2020Brexit finally does mean Brexit. The 2019 general election returned a Conservative government with a mandate to – as we repeatedly heard throughout the campaign – Get Brexit Done. What this means in the short term is that the UK will formally leave the EU on 31 January 2020.
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Vegans protected by the Equality Act - what does it mean for employers?
07 January 2020Ethical veganism can be a philosophical belief that is protected under the Equality Act, according to an Employment Tribunal (“ET”) in the widely-reported case brought by Jordi Casamitjana. But what does this actually mean in practice for employers?
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Witness statements in the Business & Property Courts: no radical change, but room for improvement
07 January 2020After a consultation period, the Witness Evidence Working Group has published its report on factual witness evidence in the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales (the “B&PCs”), i.e. the Commercial Court, the Chancery Division and the Technology and Construction Court. The report does not propose radical changes, but recommends a number of ways in which the use of witness statements in the B&PCs can (and should) be improved.
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Lewis Silkin bolsters Real Estate team with new partner hire
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06 January 2020Firm appoints Sara Hanrahan as planning partner.
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Subscriptions: When are auto-renewals fair game?
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06 January 2020As the CMA investigates the use of subscriptions in video games, James Gill, JJ Shaw and Mark Hersey comment on best practices.
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Law: Avoiding the data compliance offside trap - Bryony Long, Mark Hersey and Lauren Stone write for Inside World Football
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06 January 2020In an article for Inside World Football, Bryony Long, Mark Hersey and Lauren Stone discuss how data has become a core function of a football club’s business and cover managing and monetising that data efficiently, legally and privately.
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Lewis Silkin has advised Harbour Group on its acquisition of Media Recovery
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03 January 2020Lewis Silkin has advised Harbour Group on its acquisition of Media Recovery, Inc. (trading as SpotSee), a provider of supply chain and transportation monitoring solutions.
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Ads & Brands Law Digest: November-December 2019
23 December 2019Welcome to the November-December 2019 issue of our monthly Ads & Brands Law Digest.
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Lewis Silkin has advised CREtech on its acquisition of FUTURE PropTech
Deal
20 December 2019Lewis Silkin has advised CREtech, the leading real estate technology conference and research company, on its acquisition of FUTURE PropTech.
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Bah humbug to bad employers! Or, Christmas employment law advice from Charles Dickens Esq, novelist
19 December 2019Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (1843) – still a seasonal favourite – called on flinty-hearted Victorian employers to mend their ways.
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Lewis Silkin French Desk advises Havas on its acquisition of Gate One
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19 December 2019Lewis Silkin has advised Havas, one of the world's largest global communications groups, on its acquisition of Gate One, a specialist digital and transformation consultancy.
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EU Settlement Scheme statistics show there’s still a need to encourage people to apply
19 December 2019The Home Office’s most recent experimental statistics show that nearly 2.6 million applications were made under the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) to the end of November 2019, and more than 2.2 million have been concluded. These figures include repeat applications by the same person however.
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John Shea comments in an article for LawInSport: Key sports law cases and developments of 2019 - UK & Ireland
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19 December 2019John Shea has commented in an article for LawInSport that discusses the key sports law issues of 2019.