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  • Sickness absence and sick pay during the Covid-19 pandemic - FAQs for employers

    25 February 2022

  • Ireland - Proposed new rights to sick pay and parental leave pay in Ireland

    05 October 2020

    The Labour Party has proposed a new Bill which, if passed, would give employees in Ireland the legal right to paid sick leave for the first time. It also proposes paid leave for employees whose children have to stay home from school due to Covid-19 measures.

  • The key clauses that every representation contract should contain

    03 July 2019

    With the transfer window now in full swing and intermediaries busy brokering deals on behalf of both players and clubs, it is an important time for intermediaries, as well as players and clubs, to ensure that the terms of their representation contracts sufficiently protect their interests.

  • The right to disconnect – should employers act now?

    27 July 2021

    As the holiday season gets underway, most of us feel the need for a break. But should people have the right to disconnect? In the final of our three-part series of articles exploring topical holiday issues, we explore the mounting pressure on government and employers to require us to switch off.

  • The road to nowhere: Brexit and labour shortages

    26 February 2018

    In an opinion piece in the Guardian by British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) Director General Adam Marshall warns of an imminent recruitment crisis.

  • Shoot later ask questions first

    18 October 2016

    Wearable cameras have been in the headlines quite a bit recently. The moment BBC presenter Jeremy Vine ‘got a kicking’ (as he put it) whilst cycling to work was captured by his helmet mounted camera.

  • The Law Commissions’ final report on driverless cars proposes shifting liability away from the person in the driving seat…

    31 January 2022

    Following a three-stage project including safety assurance and legal liability and HARPS (looking at how automated vehicles could be used to improve public transport), the Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission have published their eagerly awaited report on autonomous vehicles.

  • The CJEU’s decision in Schrems II: Privacy Shield invalidated (and SCCs in jeopardy)

    17 July 2020

    The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the EU-US Privacy Shield is invalid and that, while model clauses remain a valid mechanism for cross-border data transfers, this validity is subject to an equivalent level of protection being provided in the recipient country as that afforded by EU law.

  • Failing to enhance pay for shared parental leave is not sex discrimination

    28 May 2019

    In an emphatic judgment, the Court of Appeal (“CA”) has ruled that it is not direct discrimination, indirect discrimination or breach of equal pay rights to provide enhanced pay for maternity leave and statutory pay only for shared parental leave.

  • Failing to enhance pay for shared parental leave is not sex discrimination – permission to appeal refused

    19 February 2020

    The Supreme Court has refused permission to appeal in the case of Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police v Hextall. This means the law remains as set out in the Court of Appeal’s judgment, which said that failure to enhance pay for shared parental leave was neither indirect discrimination nor a breach of equal pay rights.

  • Paying different dividends to different share classes: as easy as A, B, C?

    16 June 2017

    Giving a company the ability to pay different rates of dividend to different shareholders can be a useful tool.

  • Location, context and place-shaping challenge - The Great Office Occupier & Developer Debate

    24 May 2022

    Office premises come in a wide variety of forms from new, smart buildings to older traditional and historic stock. One thing that is common to both is the need for context and location – a sense of physical place.

  • “One shall be conducting an independent investigation”

    05 March 2021

    Whatever you might have to say about the timing of fresh bullying allegations being made against the Duchess of Sussex, the response of Buckingham Palace echoes that of many other high-profile companies and institutions over recent months and years: an investigation will take place. In this article, we consider the many important and complex issues organisations need to navigate when conducting investigations into allegations in the workplace.

  • Just a bit of banter - or endemic sexual harassment?

    12 August 2016

    More than 52% of women surveyed said they had been sexually harassed at work, according to a new report by the Trades Union Congress in conjunction with the Everyday Sexism Project. Perhaps even more surprising than that headline figure is the fact that 79% of the women who said that they had experienced harassment did not inform their employer

  • New duty to prevent sexual harassment: are employers doing enough?

    29 August 2024

    Abi Frederick and James Walters talk about the new legal duty on employers to prevent workplace sexual harassment

  • Court of Appeal orders Hong Kong’s Immigration Department to accommodate same-sex partners as dependants

    26 September 2017

    In a unanimous decision made on 25 September, the Court of Appeal ruled that the Immigration Department’s refusal to issue a dependant visa to the lesbian civil partner of a British expat was not rational.

  • Court of Appeal finds no litigation privilege in internal emails discussing commercial settlement of dispute

    09 January 2019

    The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal by West Ham football club in its application to inspect certain emails sent internally amongst board members of E20 Stadium LLP (“E20”) and between E20’s board members and stakeholders, in respect of which E20 asserted litigation privilege. The emails were created with the dominant purpose of discussing the commercial settlement of E20’s dispute with West Ham over the club’s rights to use the London Olympic Stadium when litigation was in contemplation. The Court held that litigation privilege does not extend to documents concerned with the settlement or avoidance of litigation where the documents neither: (a) seek advice or information for the purpose of conducting litigation; nor (b) reveal the nature of such advice or information.

  • Is logistics really set to become the New Retail?

    13 March 2019

    The term ‘urban logistics’ is certainly on trend in the property market and in an effort to keep pace with the demands of the modern consumer, retailers are increasingly targeting urban industrial units to help tackle a key part of the supply chain; the last mile. The challenges of the high street are well documented and the fragile retail market has forced many retailers to re-assess all aspects of their business model. With traditional store retailers needing more space to help service on-line orders and e-tailers needing to scale up their infrastructure network to support their growth, achieving a flexible and agile supply chain to meet these demands is certainly a topic that should be at the top of any retailers to do list.

  • Digital Services Act

    16 May 2024

    The Digital Services Act (DSA) became fully applicable on 17 February 2024 and marks one of the most significant updates to digital regulation within the EU since the adoption of the e-Commerce Directive in 2000.

  • Court considers service of a defendant’s notice to force claimant to serve proceedings or discontinue a claim

    14 February 2017

    A recent decision not only reminds practitioners of a defendant’s ability to force a claimant to either serve proceedings or discontinue a claim by using a CPR 7.7(1) notice, but also considers for the first time the date for compliance with such a notice.

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