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  • Supreme Court upholds spouse minimum income requirement

    22 February 2017

    The Immigration Rules regulate immigration of non-Europeans into the UK. Under the Rules, a non-EEA spouse must earn £18,600 each year before being allowed to join their partner in the UK. The lawfulness of this “minimum income requirement” has been scrutinised and ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court, although with some criticism.

  • Industrial relations update

    22 February 2017

    Our summary of recent “collective” employment law developments includes the latest on the Government’s industrial action reforms, the Court of Appeal’s ruling in the Boots case concerning a “sweetheart” recognition agreement and a decision of the Central Arbitration Committee (“CAC”) upholding an information request by the trade union Unite.

  • Bad timing for a counterclaim

    27 February 2017

    The provisions of section 35(3) of the Limitation Act 1980 will not enable a defendant to bring counterclaim that would otherwise be time barred before the proceedings had commenced.

  • Lewis Silkin speaking at Law Society Brexit seminar

    27 February 2017

    Karen Baxter, head of Lewis Silkin’s Professional Services sector group, will be speaking at The Law Society’s event on the implications of Brexit for in-house lawyers on 28 March in relation to employment law.

  • Continuous service for notice pay preserved on transfer

    28 February 2017

    An Advocate General (“AG”) of the European Court of Justice has handed down an advisory opinion on an interesting TUPE issue concerning continuous service, arising in a case referred by the Swedish Labour Court

  • New restrictions on European migrants from March

    28 February 2017

    The Prime Minister is expected to trigger Article 50 in March 2017

  • Activities fundamentally the same despite alterations to location and scope of service

    01 March 2017

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) has upheld an employment judge’s decision that a service to provide accommodation-based support services for homeless people had remained fundamentally the same before and after a TUPE service provision change (“SPC”), despite alterations to the location and scope of the service.

  • Selling your business

    01 March 2017

    Many business-owners look to sell at some point. The reasons for selling may vary but often it is the opportunity for an owner to capitalise on the years of hard work that have gone into building up his or her business.

  • Gender Pay Gap reporting for advertising agencies

    01 March 2017

    Gender pay is an industry hot-topic and gender pay reporting is about to become compulsory for agencies who exceed a certain amount of employees.

  • Equal Pay

    02 March 2017

    Equal pay law first developed in the UK in the 1970s after a campaign by trade unions and women’s groups. It is now a basic principle of European law that men and women who do equal work should receive equal pay. This principle is implemented in the UK today through the Equality Act 2010.

  • Gender pay gap reporting

    02 March 2017

    The Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017 (the “Regulations”) require employers to report on the gender pay gap in their organisation.

  • Beware of copyright when considering existing planning permission

    02 March 2017

    The recent judgment in Signature Realty Ltd v Fortis Developments Ltd & Anor is an excellent example of the application of copyright in a planning and building context.

  • Supreme Court ends British Gas challenge to holiday pay ruling

    02 March 2017

    The Supreme Court has refused permission for British Gas to appeal against an important ruling that the calculation of holiday pay should include results-based commission.

  • Lewis Silkin advises Four Communications on its acquisition of Legend Engage

    09 March 2017

    Lewis Silkin is a leading international law firm to creative agencies and has advised Four Communications, the independent integrated agency, on its acquisition of Legend Engage, a data and insights-led agency.

  • The risk for employers in bypassing collective bargaining

    16 March 2017

    Where an employer has recognised a trade union for collective bargaining purposes, can it still put an offer directly to its employees? This was the thorny issue for consideration in a recent Employment Tribunal decision.

  • Royal assent paves the way for Brexit

    16 March 2017

    The Queen has this morning signed into law the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill which was passed by MPs and peers on Monday.

  • Guideline on reduction in sentence for a guilty plea

    16 March 2017

    The Sentencing Council for England and Wales has issued a new guideline. It applies equally in magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court, to all individual offenders aged 18 and older, and to organisations, in cases where the first hearing is after May 31 2017, regardless of the date of the offence.

  • Important new guidelines for advertising prices to UK consumers

    17 March 2017

    The long-awaited Guidance for Traders on Pricing Practices was finally issued by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSi) in December 2016. The previous guidelines had been around since the old DTI published its first Code of Practice in 1988, with the last iteration published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in 2010. Although the BIS guidance has been withdrawn, traders have until April 2017 to comply with the new Guidance. The Guidance will apply to any advertisers targetting UK consumers, including advertisers based abroad.

  • Dressing to impress - discriminatory appearance codes

    17 March 2017

    Laura Farnsworth and Emma Langhorn have written an article for HR review on discriminatory appearance codes in the workplace.

  • CMA offers cash for whistleblowers

    20 March 2017

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