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  • UK election 2024: employment law reforms

    27 June 2024

    The content of this page has been removed following the election results.

  • UK election 2024: Digital, Creative and Commercial reforms

    02 July 2024

    What digital, creative and commercial law changes should we expect after the UK general election? We’re listing the key pledges in our tracker. This article has been updated to include relevant SNP manifesto commitments.

  • Labour announces new immigration strategy for the UK

    02 August 2024

    The Home Secretary provides more detail on how Labour will reform the immigration system, linking skills to sponsorship. Labour will also retain many of the strict Immigration Rule changes introduced by the previous Government.

  • Statut professionnel des chauffeurs d’Uber

    13 December 2016

    Un tribunal du travail (employment tribunal) a déterminé que les chauffeurs engagés par Uber étaient des employés et non des prestataires indépendants, ce qui signifie qu’ils ont droit au salaire minimum national, aux congés payés annuels et à la protection des dénonciateurs.

  • Advocate General’s Opinion – Uber provides a transport service not an information society service

    11 May 2017

    The Advocate General states the Uber is providing a transport service and it not acting as an electronic intermediary and providing an information society service. Uber therefore should have to comply with local laws for the licensing of taxi operators

  • Types of directors: myths and common pitfalls

    25 March 2020

    Below we answer some of the most common questions and address frequent pitfalls in the often-confusing realm of company directors.

  • Payback time? Types of Covid-19 pay-related queries that may arise

    25 August 2020

    As the furlough scheme starts to wind down and redundancies become more commonplace, employers may face a host of pay-related queries, grievances or claims from employees arising from the workplace upheaval caused by coronavirus.

  • English courts and overseas defendants: jurisdiction challenges and the “two-fold test”

    15 January 2018

    When a dispute involves a foreign party or events that took place in another jurisdiction, questions often arise as to where the dispute should be determined.

  • The regulator and the right of reply: two recent cases involving the Financial Reporting Council

    29 October 2018

    The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is the regulator for UK statutory audits. Its responsibilities include setting audit standards, as well as enforcing the quality of audit. It is the investigative and disciplinary body for UK accountants dealing with cases affecting the public interest. FRC investigations naturally focus on those under its jurisdiction, such as its member accountancy firms and individual auditors. Sometimes, however, the conduct of the audited company and its managers will also be relevant. Two recent cases have discussed the duties owed by the FRC to these entities. The cases will be relevant to other regulators.

  • Data security breaches - a tale of two airlines

    25 July 2019

    Recent decisions by privacy regulators in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong have highlighted contrasting approaches towards data security breaches affecting customers of two major airlines.

  • Two’s company, three’s a crowd... and therefore banned with immediate effect

    31 March 2020

    With the ongoing rapid spread of COVID-19, we’ve seen an ever-greater sense of urgency in the responses of governments from around the world.

  • It takes two to make a thing go right...! The two-part possession hearing

    09 November 2020

    On 27 March 2020, all possession claims and evictions (save for a few exemptions) were stayed as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. Fast forward to 20 September 2020, and the stay has been lifted, but there are new arrangements released by the Master of the Rolls “The Overall Arrangements” which deal with how the Court intends to return to hearing possession claims and the challenges it faces. Most important to note is the introduction of a “Review Hearing”.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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