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Working Effectively with Trade Unions: Post Brexit and Trade Unions Act
23 January 2017Lewis Silkin is delighted to be speaking at the upcoming 10th Annual Conference: Working Effectively with Trade Unions : Post-Brexit and Trade Unions Act in London on 1 February.
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IFLR In-House Counsel Summit 2017
Press Release
20 January 2017Lewis Silkin is delighted to be speaking at this week’s IFLR In-House Counsel Summit 2017 in London for the second year in a row.
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Advertising for betting and gaming
20 January 2017The existing regulation of advertising for gaming and betting is made up of a patchwork of legislation, regulations and codes of practice.
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An agency guide to trade mark searching
Inbrief
20 January 2017Whenever a new launch is proposed, whether it is for a product, brand, business name or an advertising campaign, there is always a risk that someone else is already using an identical or a similar name or design.
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An agent’s guide to athlete trade marks
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20 January 2017Sportsmen and women invest massive amounts of time and energy into perfecting their sporting prowess. As an agent, your role is to invest your time and energy into their well-being, to nurture their income generating potential, and protect their image and reputation.
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Planning for employment law issues in your HR budget
19 January 2017With the annual budgeting process now underway in many businesses, we have taken a look at the expected employment law developments for the coming year and identified five non-core areas of potential spend/cost that HR directors may want to make allowance for in their 2017/18 budget.
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...a little bit of law - Chancel Repair
19 January 2017Chancel repair liability occurs when a landowner is responsible for the cost of repairing a church of the Church of England or Church in Wales.
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...a little bit of law - Searches
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19 January 2017As part of the conveyancing process we, as your solicitors, will carry out a number of searches on any piece of land you want to buy.
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There's something under my bed...
19 January 2017Three companies that supply drawer parts to bed and other furniture retailers have admitted breaching competition law by sharing commercially sensitive information, agreeing not to undercut each other and sharing out their customers. One of the companies avoided paying a fine under the CMA’s leniency policy, but the other two companies have agreed to pay fines totalling £2.8 million.
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What does Brexit mean for UK employment law?
19 January 2017It is now several months since the UK voted to leave the European Union. What are the short and long-term implications of this momentous decision for workplace rights in the UK?
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Sexual portrayal of under-18s in ads
18 January 2017Following a number of adjudications in recent years concerning the sexualised portrayal of children and young people, as well as the publication of various reports calling for action to stop the premature sexualisation of children, the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) has launched a consultation on the proposed introduction of new rules in the UK advertising codes prohibiting the sexual portrayal of under 18s in advertising. The consultation is open for response until 5pm 19 January 2017.
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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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Immigration in the manufacturing industry: understanding the landscape
Press
16 January 2017Neil Jennings and Sam Koppel have written an article for Manufacturing Global which comments on the political pressure to reduce migrant labour in the UK and the serious challenges this will cause to the industry.
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Flexible working - the right to ask
Inbrief
13 January 2017Employees seeking a better balance between the demands of work and personal life may seek a change in their working arrangements – for example by part-time working, job-sharing or a change in working hours.
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Contracts of employment
Inbrief
12 January 2017A contract of employment can be a written document, a verbal agreement, or a mixture of the two. Even where the employer and employee have agreed express terms, certain terms are always implied into every contract of employment. Understanding the full effect of the contract of employment is important because it forms the basis of many of the legal rights and obligations which govern the employment relationship.
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TUPE
Inbrief
11 January 2017The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 and previous versions of the regulations (which have been in force in the UK since 1981) implement the European Acquired Rights Directive, the general purpose of which is to safeguard employee rights in the transfer of a business.
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Employment law review 2016/2017
05 January 2017An overview of the significant changes to employment law that took effect last year and a look ahead to the major reforms in store for 2017 and beyond.
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New consultations on employment tribunals and ill health and disability
04 January 2017The government has launched two new consultations: the first on reforms to the employment tribunal system and the second on work, health and disability.
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The Trade Union Act 2016 - the year ahead
04 January 2017Although the Trade Union Act 2016 (the “Act”) became law in May last year, further legislation is needed to flesh out some of its reforms and bring them into force. Now that the Government has begun publishing this additional legislation and updating related Codes of Practice, we take a look below at some areas where the impact of the Act’s reforms is likely to become clearer over the year ahead.