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Manchester City escapes Champions League ban: John Shea comments for Bloomberg
14 July 2020The credibility of UEFA’s financial fair play rules has been questioned after Europe’s top soccer regulatory body lost in its attempt to ban Manchester City for two years from the Champions League.
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I am a Managing Associate in the Digital, Commerce & Creative (DCC) team, with a particular focus on the media & entertainment, sport and technology sectors.
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Alan Hunt comments in The Luxury Law Alliance: Accessing luxury in the sharing economy - the legal issues
02 March 2017Senior Associate, Alan Hunt has written an article for The Luxury Law Alliance which discusses the legal issues of accessing luxury in the sharing economy of the fashion industry.
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Shares & Options for Businesses
Recruiting, motivating and retaining management and staff is a key issue for most employers and getting it right at the outset is crucial – tax rates on share and option plan gains can vary between 0%/10% at one end, and 54.59% at the other, but the rules are complex.
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Shares & Options for Employers
Recruiting, motivating and retaining management and staff is a key issue for most employers and getting it right at the outset is crucial – tax rates on share and option plan gains can vary between 0%/10% at one end, and 54.59% at the other, but the rules are complex.
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Failing to enhance pay for shared parental leave is not sex discrimination
28 May 2019In 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.
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Failing to enhance pay for shared parental leave is not sex discrimination – permission to appeal refused
19 February 2020The 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.
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Paying different dividends to different share classes: as easy as A, B, C?
16 June 2017Giving a company the ability to pay different rates of dividend to different shareholders can be a useful tool.
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Location, context and place-shaping challenge - The Great Office Occupier & Developer Debate
24 May 2022Office 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.
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No break for KitKat as EU court rules against monopolies of shapes
16 September 2015James Sweeting has been quoted in an article by The Independent which looks at the European Court of Justice’s decision that the shape of Nestlé’s famous four-finger KitKat bar does not merit a trademark.
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The Immigration Bill and sham marriages
14 February 2014In an article for The Law Society Gazette, Samar Shams discusses the new measures on sham marriages and civil partnerships arising from the new Immigration Bill.
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“One shall be conducting an independent investigation”
05 March 2021Whatever 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.
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I have been a Partner in the Employment, Immigration and Reward division since 2016 having joined the firm as a trainee in 2002. I am also the firm’s Training Principal. I have a particular focus ...
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Just a bit of banter - or endemic sexual harassment?
12 August 2016More 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
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LS Live: Sexual Harassment in the live entertainment industry
13 June 20182017 was the year the issues of workplace sexual harassment dominated the public conversation. As the year closed, the media spotlight was firmly focused on sexual harassment and the far reaching #metoo campaign.
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Court of Appeal orders Hong Kong’s Immigration Department to accommodate same-sex partners as dependants
26 September 2017In 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.
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How To: sever a partnership
20 May 2013In a Law Society Gazette article, Fergus Payne stresses the importance of studying the partnership or members’ agreement when looking to sever a partnership.
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Court of Appeal finds no litigation privilege in internal emails discussing commercial settlement of dispute
09 January 2019The 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.
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Home Office confirms details of the full EU Settlement Scheme roll-out
08 March 2019The Home Office has laid Immigration Rules implementing the full public roll-out of the EU Settlement Scheme from 7 am on 30 March 2019.
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Is logistics really set to become the New Retail?
13 March 2019The 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.