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The end of mask wearing and Covid-19 restrictions in Ireland (RTE Radio 1)
28 February 2022Linda Hynes speaks to RTE Radio 1 about her views on the end of the legal requirements to wear a face covering.
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Advances in Wearable Tech - for Fashion, Health and Life in 2024
05 September 2024The wearable technology sector has been booming in recent years as more every day wearable items are integrated with electronic and computing technology to provide enhanced insights to the user. It is an exciting, fast moving, forward-thinking sector that is drawing together the use of technology to enhance our everyday activities within stylish products that can be worn and form part of our daily activities.
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Masking for trouble? Can employers require staff to wear a face mask even if an employee says they have a disability that prevents them from doing so?
30 November 2022The use of face masks at work is back under the spotlight as winter approaches, with two recent Employment Tribunal decisions considering whether it could be an act of disability discrimination to require disabled employees to wear face masks.
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Weapons of mass eviction
17 May 2013In an article for Inside Housing, Paul Hayes discusses increasing rent arrears and the Registered Providers who are using mandatory grounds for possession. The rising rent arrears are a result of welfare reform. In a bid to defend their income, housing associations are increasingly considering the use of mandatory grounds for possession and, last year, social landlords filed 96,742 possession claims in the county courts.
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Wealth Report 2023 – a picture of changing times and a wealth of opportunity.
06 July 2023Knight Frank recently published the 17th edition of its Wealth Report. This highlights the shift from wealth creation on the back of the post-covid bounce-back to the legacy of that economic rebound.
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Dinner, drinks and conversation – a review of our first private wealth dinner
19 July 2023We were delighted to host the first of many private wealth dinners at The Ivy City Garden on 4 July. Despite yet another train strike and less than favourable British weather, it was well attended by individuals acting for High-Net-Worth Individuals (HNWIs), investors and Family Offices.
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Can we stop our former multichannel director disclosing our strategy to her new retail employer?
08 February 2013James Walters discusses the possibility of former employees disclosing sensitive company information and how best to approach it in an article for Retail Week.
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But we settled that! (Brands & IP Newsnotes - Issue 2)
28 March 2016Parties will understandably often be relieved to sign on the dotted line of that “full and final” settlement agreement. But two decisions of the High Court earlier this year may give pause for thought. What is the practical effect of such a settlement and is it really what the parties want?
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Brexit means... it's the end of free movement as we know it
18 January 2017As expected, Prime Minister Theresa May today laid out plans for what has come to be known in the press as a “hard Brexit”.
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We are family – I’ve got all my passports with me
09 February 2017An EEA national using the online application form for a registration certificate or for a document certifying permanent residence can now add their close and extended family members to their online form.
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Cliff Fluet quoted in The Guardian: 'AI and music - will we be slaves to the algorithm?'
08 August 2017Cliff Fluet has commented in an article for The Guardian which discusses the role of AI in creating music and whether machines will soon be composing symphonies, hit singles and bespoke soundtracks.
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James Davies is quoted in an article for Personnel Today: “We’re not like Uber or the other gig economy companies” – Hermes
08 December 2017James Davies’ quotes from his talk on ‘Defining the status of employees and workers: challenges for the legislative framework’ at this week’s Westminster Employment Keynote Seminar: Employment rights and practices in the UK were picked up in this article.
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Can we remove “limited” from the end of our company name?
30 July 2018In certain circumstances a private limited company can apply to Companies House to be registered with a name that does not have “limited” (or the Welsh equivalent) at the end. This article summarises the circumstances of this exemption.
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We’re on the road? The government’s Covid-19 recovery strategy
11 May 2020The government has published its post-COVID recovery strategy, setting out a “roadmap” for gradually easing the lockdown, getting the economy moving and – eventually – returning the country to something approaching normality.
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To mark Black History Month, we’ve looked at some of the ads that have been labelled racist in both the UK and further afield, but we’ve been shocked to identify the biggest offender of all
30 October 2020Author’s note: I always give careful thought before publishing offensive ads in articles or including them in presentations, but unfortunately, I think it is often essential so that the reader or audience can fully appreciate the story. Nevertheless, I should like to apologise for any offence that is caused by the ads included in this piece.
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Google Analytics under fire in Europe – are we another step closer to data localisation?
25 January 2022Just when we were hoping for a gentle ease into the year, the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DPA) decision of 22 December 2021 was made public and a flurry of concerns around the future of international transfers (not just the use of Google Analytics) ensued.
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10 things we’ve learned from the new Covid guidance
07 April 20221 April marked another milestone in the loosening of Covid restrictions. Universal free testing has now ended, and the new guidance sees Covid being treated in (almost) the same way as other respiratory illness.
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A day off for the Coronation: can we all bank on it?
19 January 2023It has been announced that there will be an additional bank holiday on 8 May 2023 to mark the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III. However, the legal position is not entirely straightforward, and some employees may not be entitled to an extra day off at all.
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Behind door number three we have...
30 June 2023There are three types of property you can acquire in England for SDLT purposes – residential, non-residential and mixed use. Mixed used properties are properties that consist of both residential and non-residential elements. An example of this is a building consisting of a shop and a flat.
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We’ll meet AGAin: permission to appeal granted in AGA Rangemaster v UK Innovations trade mark and copyright dispute
16 September 2024Can brands control the refurbishment, conversion and resale of products they sell? The answer from the recent AGA cooker case indicates that such ability is limited, at least absent clear evidence of a serious risk to the brand’s reputation. We look at what happened, what this means for OEMs, and what the appeal might have in store.