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- When deliberate isn’t deliberate
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- Doctors who are subject to a GMC interim suspension should continue to be paid, decides Court of Appeal
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- The Scottish Compulsory Pre-Action Protocol — Binding admissions
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- Supreme Court clarifies duty of care owed by local authorities to children — new focus on assumption of responsibility
- A reminder on the succession of farming tenancies
- Holiday pay: Northern Ireland police case challenges Bear Scotland
- Do we need to record all employee working time? New case from the ECJ
- Maternity leave: what constitutes reasonable contact with employees?
- Final written warnings: will the Employment Tribunal re-open old warnings (and do internal hearings ever have to do so)?
- Beyond the Employment Tribunal: what happens next when a claim just won’t go away?
- Edinburgh tram tracks held to be direct cause of injury to cyclists
- AI-Najar and others v The Cumberland Hotel (London) Limited
- The Professional Negligence Bar Association launches its new adjudication scheme
- An executor’s right of indemnity
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- 'Fundamentally dishonest’ tripping claim with costs summarily assessed
- Scarle v Scarle and the 'commorientes' rule: who died first?
- Will covertly recording a meeting always be gross misconduct?
- How do you calculate holiday pay for staff who work irregular hours?
- TUPE: Obligation to maintain National Minimum Wage records moves to transferee
- Rees and Others v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2019] EWHC 2120 (Admin) QBD (Admin) (Cheema-Grubb J)
- Parental consent still amounts to a deprivation of liberty
- Idu v East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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- Article 3 — the threshold for engagement
- Top tips for the first meeting with your family solicitor
- Electronic service of a 'Copley' offer by text message deemed acceptable
- Detention damages
- Thirty years of the Children Act — a family lawyer reflects
- New pre-action protocols bring clarity for disrepair and possession claims
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- Helping your children to buy property
- Breadwinner v homemaker: what happens on divorce?
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- Court of Appeal issues guidance on restoring a dissolved company to the register
- Civil litigation update — success fees in Scotland
- Disclosure to non-patients: the balancing act between competing interests
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- Remedies of last resort
- CPR amendments effective April 2020
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- Claims against insolvent insureds — considerations for insurers and insurance practitioners
- R (Fisher) v Durham County Council — statutory nuisance and the Equality Act 2010
- Reform of outdated divorce laws given the green light
- Construction sector challenges: Collaboration and preparing for the future
- No tax relief for in-specie transfers
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- Goodenough v Chief Constable of Thames Valley (2020)
- Is shared parenting going to become the new default in Scotland after parents separate?
- Forum shopping is alive and well: Villiers v Villiers Supreme Court decision
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- Force majeure clauses: drafting in a time of Coronavirus
- Your duty to report COVID-19 cases to the Health and Safety Executive or the Coroner
- COVID-19: The risk of prosecution
- Disrepair during COVID-19
- UK M&A in a post-COVID-19 world
- COVID-19: Solicitors’ solvency and insolvency
- Coronavirus: Practice Direction 55C — temporary provision in relation to possession proceedings
- Remote inquest hearings — practical tips
- The practical implications of the FCA's test case judgment for the insurance sector
- COVID-19 and the increased risk of irritant contact dermatitis
- What does Tier 4 mean for separated parents?
- Hot off the press — summary of the Supreme Court judgment in FCA business interruption test case
- Testing times: can an employer require workers to undertake mandatory COVID-19 tests?
- COVID vaccination in care homes: Q&A
- U-turn on mandatory vaccination in health and social care
- The Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill
- COVID-19 and Prevention of Future Deaths Reports: what are the effects (if any)?
- HSE enforcement action prompts warning to health and care providers on COVID-19 respiratory protective equipment
- Where are COVID-19 inquests? Investigating in the shadow of the looming COVID-19 inquiry
- The changing face of the workplace — the implications for employees, employers and business
- HSE statistics lay bare the pandemic’s impact on workplace mental health
- Returning to work after “Long COVID”
- Health and Care Visa scheme expanded
- Easing of COVID restrictions — gas safety & the associated risks
- What do we know about the COVID-19 Public Inquiry so far?
- COVID-19 sickness absence update: Can we withhold sick pay from unvaccinated staff?
- Return to the office and hybrid-working: Your essential Health & Safety checklist
- COVID-19 and annual leave: Must we allow staff to ‘carry-over’ holiday?
- What happens when an inquest overlaps with the terms of reference of a public inquiry?
- Brexit insights
- Securing settled status — how far does the employer’s duty go?
- Brexit — the impact on the construction sector
- The EU Settlement Scheme — Frequently Asked Questions
- Post-Brexit: Is the Visitor Visa an option?
- The Brexit data bridge and what you need to know
- Contracts for services — Another visitor visa option for short term workers entering the UK?
- The New Points Based Immigration System — can the shortage occupation list solve the UK construction worker shortage?
- Removing the resident labour market test — transitional teething problems — or here to stay?
- Visiting Europe? To work, or not to work?
- Sponsors take stock — upcoming Certificates of Sponsorship annual allocation deadline
- The UK’s product safety review — The Government’s response: will there be any change?
- Brexit — the impact on the construction sector six months on
- Entry requirements for the UK after 1 October 2021
- Can visitors work in the UK without a visa?
- When can a visit visa be used for European Union construction workers instead of the points-based immigration system?
- Community trademarks in the UK — what happens post-Brexit?
- Construction industry worker shortage — is the frontier worker permit the answer?
- Retained Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2022
- De facto directors personally responsible for company contempt
- Parental alienation
- A common-sense approach to Basic Hire Rates (BHR) evidence
- Ogden working party releases 8th Edition of Ogden tables
- Law Commission’s proposed changes of leasehold enfranchisement
- Legal innovation and technology insights
- Estate planning under an LPA
- TUPE: Can an employment contract be split between multiple new employers?
- Divorce and civil partnership dissolution — a quick guide to family law in England/Wales and Scotland
- Financial settlements arising on divorce — a quick guide to family law in England/Wales and Scotland
- Cohabitation — a quick guide to family law in England/Wales and Scotland
- What happens if there is a dispute about payment of nursery or school fees?
- Financial redress for survivors of historical child abuse
- New compliance requirements for trusts
- Significant changes to planning use classes
- Emergency Services collaboration — the successes and pitfalls
- Preparing for expiry of your PFI contract
- Causing Serious Injury by Careless Driving: more drivers to face the prospect of prison sentences
- Friends and families in business — what happens when familiarity breeds contempt
- Court of Appeal decision in Cable v LV — A useful result for defendants
- Sale and leaseback — the saviour or pitfall in raising capital?
- HMRC increases estate investigations for Inheritance Tax
- Opposite-sex civil partnership uptake
- Necessity to arrest for a search
- The Building Safety Bill 2020: What you need to know
- Families in business: what happens on relationship breakdown?
- Data sharing in the modern NHS
- Public sector exit payments
- The Court of Appeal considers the validity of a notice to quit following the death of a tenant
- Ex turpi causa — Supreme Court decision
- The planning implications of micro-fulfilment centres in urban areas
- UK Parliament considers the current position on “No DSS” letting policies
- Changing the face of family law: A retrospective on some of the seminal family law decisions of the last 20 years
- Click and Collect — some key risks for retailers
- A First Class decision on impecuniosity from the Court of Appeal
- Share sale disputes
- Planning regulations for controversial ‘PD rights and use Class E’, survive judicial review challenge
- Top ten apprenticeship myths
- Data breach claims — a step in the right direction
- Claims in relation to share purchase agreements — how to deal with warranty claims in their early stages
- Tree falls and highway duties
- The importance of a valid notice of warranty claim — recent guidance from the courts
- Businesses and individuals performing contracts in difficult times — force majeure and frustration
- Data breach claims — is common sense prevailing?
- Share purchase agreements — issues surrounding expert determination
- Deadline for NHS disciplinary policy reviews
- Unlawful killing — the civil standard of proof
- Highways England claims post-Cardiff
- Leasehold enfranchisement — major reforms announced
- Al-Najar and others v The Cumberland Hotel (London) Limited 2020 EWCA 1716
- Lawful arrest — a case against Chelmsford Crown Court and Chief Constable of Essex
- The Energy White Paper: Powering our net zero future
- Capital Gains Tax on divorce or dissolution: Do you need to take steps before the end of this tax year?
- Update on the outcome of the consultation about the Caldicott Principles
- Damages for malicious prosecution
- Even Premier League footballers are owed a duty of care
- Data breach litigation — where are we now and what lies ahead?
- Corporate insolvencies and D&O risk
- Litigation funding for businesses — what is third party litigation funding?
- The Ockenden Review
- Pension Schemes Act 2021
- ESG investing — a guide for pension scheme trustees
- Employment tribunals and remote hearings — avoiding embarrassing profile pictures and other top tips
- Data breach claim suitable for small claims track
- Aggregation in reinsurance
- Fraud scam identified in respect of judgment enforcements
- Business valuations on divorce
- The future of construction: opportunities and challenges
- Mind the GAP: GAP Insurance and COVID-19 fraud
- The Whiplash Reforms
- Tinnitus at the traffic lights
- Data theft — beware of departing employees
- Substantial Prejudice Test considered by the Court of Session in a historical child abuse case
- Gifts between unmarried couples — guarding against unexpected tax consequences
- Vulnerable Road Users and the whiplash reforms
- How to respond to a data security incident
- Failure by Spectra Drive to insure a credit hire vehicle leads to claim being dismissed on the grounds of illegality
- On the horizon: major reforms to the UK’s audit market and corporate governance regime A summary and outlook for professional and directors’ Risks
- Liability decision trees
- The position of Local Authorities — Human Rights Act challenges on environmental grounds
- The role of CAFCASS within private Children Act proceedings
- The accidental partnership
- Charity Commission guidance for trustees
- The Charity Code of Governance
- Domestic abuse and child arrangements: a move forward on a long journey
- How bulletproof is your business?
- Prison authorities failed to keep a prisoner reasonably safe — a claim in negligence and for a breach of Article 3
- Public Sector Pensions on Divorce: A complex issue complicated further by the McCloud judgment
- When can a partner forfeit their partnership share?
- Private prosecutions — the future?
- What happens to cryptocurrency when I die?
- Asbestos risks: a 2021 perspective
- Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Bill
- Unexplained Wealth Orders — what are they and how do they work?
- Doing the splits: EAT decision makes TUPE even more complex
- Under pressure: When a customer calls for an employee’s dismissal
- Weightmans acts in ground-breaking post-Brexit Kuwait Embassy case
- Travelling abroad with children
- A quick guide to children law in England & Wales and Scotland — Part 1 — Parental responsibility
- An interim injunction against the world for a police informant
- Commonhold Council is launched
- Silent cyber cover: changes to the Minimum Terms and Conditions for solicitors
- Digital divorce — what is it and is it here to stay?
- A quick guide to children law in England & Wales and Scotland — part 2 — Court process for children hearings
- Judge finds fundamental dishonesty after ex-employee lies about his previous claims history
- The effective management of disputes and maximising charitable legacy income
- A quick guide to children law in England & Wales and Scotland — Part 3 — moving children across the border
- Weightmans secure permission to bring committal proceedings against claimant who discontinued a large credit hire claim in the County Court
- Five top tips on preventing the non-return of children after holidays
- Changes to the QOCS in Scotland, from 30 June 2021
- Please don’t let me be misunderstood — The Approved Building Inspector
- HM Treasury Special Severance Payment Guidance Updated; the grip on the purse strings tighten
- Retail Innovation — Ethical use of personal data
- Pre-Pack Reforms — Sales to connected parties — Time to evaluate
- Nervous shock and claims for psychiatric injury
- The Fire Safety Act 2021
- Landlord update — Right to Rent checks from 1 July 2021
- Trust compliance: what do trustees need to do?
- Entry on MID does not bind motor insurer
- I think my child has been abducted — what should I do?
- I have been accused of abducting our child — what should I do?
- The Government proposes to extend the limitation period
- The law relating to divorce and civil partnership is changing
- The Natural Capital agenda
- When expert engineering evidence in a vehicle damage and credit hire claim is not what it seems
- National Security and Investment Act comes into force from January 2022
- Insider cyber threats — recognising the risk
- Equal rights for all — it’s been a long time coming…
- Success fees in mesothelioma claims
- Will a contractual change be void under TUPE even if it benefits the employee?
- Eradicating modern slavery
- Building Safety Bill 2021
- Focus on energy storage
- Health and Safety Executive to enforce head injuries in sport?
- High Court strikes out various claims relating to cyber-attack
- Trust disputes — what, why and who?
- A guide to the most common types of Contentious Probate Disputes
- Funeral disputes — what steps should be taken?
- The Environment Bill — key points for water companies to be aware of
- Donatio mortis causa (death bed gifts) — a doctrine validating gifts by the back door?
- Establishing fraudulent calumny — has the mind of the testator been ‘poisoned’?
- Fraud does not taint innocent partners
- Nuisance claim — the noise was there first
- Hydrogen Strategy
- Construction professionals: when will a duty of care arise to third parties?
- Natasha’s Law: new allergen labelling changes
- Creating a charitable trust
- A lesson in instructing experts in mental capacity assessments
- 'Show me the money' — a new solution to the social care challenge?
- Court of Appeal reviews vicarious liability in sexual abuse claims
- Britney Spears and capacity: how would her situation be addressed if she were based in England?
- Conversion of civil partnership to a marriage in England and Wales
- Weightmans secure discontinuance in large loss employer’s liability claim
- Air pollution, human rights and health
- Contracts for Difference — the future for onshore solar and wind?
- Revised Energy National Policy Statements — a boost for large-scale solar PV
- What is cryptocurrency?
- Notice periods for seeking possessions of residential tenancies to return to pre-pandemic levels from 1 October 2021
- Recruiting and retaining key personnel
- How to avoid a partial intestacy: lessons from Big Brother
- Adapting to change: issues for digital estate planning
- Claimant was fundamentally dishonest in special damages claim
- UK Actuaries revise asbestos predictions
- Police officers working away from home overnight — on duty or on call?
- Cryptoassets in relationship breakdowns
- Trivial data breach claim struck out
- Supreme Court provides clarification in the Brownlie 2 decision
- Navigating smart contract and cryptocurrency disputes — the key considerations from a litigator’s perspective
- Age discrimination: Can we set a mandatory retirement age for our staff?
- Menopause at work: Avoiding discrimination claims
- Claimant jailed for contempt of court
- Does a collateral warranty constitute a ‘construction contract’?
- Liquidated damages and partial possession
- Post six year run-off cover
- Joint Contracts Tribunal sound a warning regarding assignment clauses
- Adjudication: three’s a crowd
- Claimant jailed for seven months for contempt of court
- Official Injury Claim quarterly data releases
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- Working remotely from abroad — how employers can minimise the risk of legal consequences
- Possession Proceedings — an end to review dates
- Court awards damages exceeding £1.3 million
- Can employers bypass collective bargaining? The Supreme Court decides
- Playing with public money — another reason for GPs to pay close attention to practice finances
- Custody officer’s power to deny bail after charge on ‘own interest’ or ‘own protection’ grounds preserved
- The pitfalls of relying on consumer forums for legal advice: a cautionary tale about excess mileage clauses in hire purchase agreements
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- The Environment Act 2021
- Importance of avoiding making misleading environmental claims
- Ten top tips to consider when separating
- Contributory negligence: getting into a drunk driver’s car
- Evaluating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors in public procurement
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- Construction insurance claims and supply chain issues
- Weightmans secures trial win for one of the UK’s largest retailers
- Environment Act 2021 — Storm overflows
- Alternative dispute resolution in family law
- Extension to the regulations for smoke and carbon monoxide alarms
- The implications of Lloyd v Google: Prove your loss or fail to succeed
- The regulation of hydrogen — what will it look like?
- Lifetime gifts – allowances to consider
- Directors beware! New disqualification rules to curb abuse of the company dissolution process
- Strict liability and non-dangerous animals
- New homes carbon reduction
- Heat — a new regulated utility
- An update on family groups in England and Wales and how the law applies to them
- New Year, New Highway Code…
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- HSE Annual Statistics 2020–2021
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- Family mediation voucher scheme
- The Care Quality Commission Challenges
- Government consultation on Fixed Recoverable Costs launched 31 January 2022
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- Tom Reeves: My apprenticeship experience
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- Functional Neurological Disorder: Finding order within the disorder
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- The growth of sports data
- The Johnson & Johnson “Texas two-step”: corporate masterstroke or reputational checkmate?
- Grievances: Can we dismiss an employee who raises serial complaints?
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- He who must not be named…until charged
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- Combatting modern slavery
- All change in the Family Court — a review of recent reforms designed to improve efficiency
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- New restrictions on unhealthy food and drink promotions and advertisements from October 2022
- Broken promises — how IT projects can lead to disputes all too often
- Why do I need a cohabitation agreement? The position in England and Wales
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- Divorce: All in the past?
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- International competition law regulators send warning to supply chains against collusion
- A reminder: the effects of the change in value of a testamentary gift
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- Mediation in complex financial issues
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- UK Ukraine immigration assistance
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- A return to safer waters? The ICO publishes the International Data Transfer Agreement: a welcome development for UK personal data exporters
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- ClientEarth v Shell: Alleged breaches of board duties
- Litigation related to anaesthesia
- Service charges for GP practices
- Who is a legal parent and who has parental responsibility?
- ICO Consultation — major listening exercise
- Can gross negligence constitute gross misconduct?
- The interaction between guardianship and DoLS
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- How to respond to police requests for patient records
- When is the ‘effective date of termination’?
- The use of CCTV in care homes — The legal issues
- Can a judge be a whistleblower?
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- Action taken to increase use of online claims services
- The importance of natural justice in employee disciplinary hearings
- Partnership agreements for medical practitioners
- Amending the Mental Health Act
- How to buy a business
- How to sell your business
- Challenging the media on coverage of a personal nature
- A guide to fitness to practise investigations
- Fitness to practise — what is current impairment?
- Cross-examination at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPT)
- Pitfalls with GP premises leases
- How to handle the residence nil rate band
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- Adverse possession
- Do rest breaks have to be for a continuous period of 20 minutes?
- Is suspending an employee a breach of trust and confidence?
- Can I move away with my child? Relocating within the UK as a single parent
- If it’s not written down, it didn’t happen… or did it?
- New SDLT surcharge for Non-UK resident purchasers of UK residential property
- Residential Property Developer Tax: What we know so far
- Witness statements — sticking to the facts
- Is fire and re-hire legal?
- Article 27 Interpretation: what happens with a GDPR data breach when there is no EU/UK establishment?
- Extension of the Article 2 ECHR boundaries?
- Hertfordshire County Council v AB: Inherent jurisdiction and the use of conditional discharge for patients with capacity
- Does the ACAS code apply to all dismissals?
- Spotting a ‘closed culture’ — CQC inspections
- Dr Michalak and the GMC — Individuals can bring discrimination claims against their regulators in the Employment Tribunal
- Subject access requests and health records
- Can the CQC demand that providers produce information to them?
- Next of kin and nearest relative: what’s the difference?
- The pitfalls of annual renewal for dentists and DCPs
- Who pays the costs of divorce and related financial proceedings?
- Commercial property and VAT: What to consider
- Do I have to declare my conviction/caution?
- High Court rejects constructive trust and proprietary estoppel claims in acrimonious estate dispute
- What is a GMC Rule 7 letter?
- The opening gambit: your communication strategy
- Ethical principles to underpin decisions in adult social care
- Guidance to changes made by the Policing and Crime Act to police powers and places of safety provisions in the Mental Health Act
- CQC notices of proposal: how to respond
- How can the nearest relative request discharge?
- The Court of Appeal says: Discharge restrictive covenants first, then develop the land
- Solicitors left in limbo
- An update on Owens v Owens — The difficulty in divorce
- Does the death of a vulnerable care home resident require an Article 2 inquest?
- GDPR in the health and social care sector
- Shaggy dog stories — Allowing pets in leasehold properties
- Diplomatic immunity and the Mental Health Act
- GP partnership disputes
- GDPR — Lawful grounds for processing data
- Police investigations — the uncertainty of RUI
- Changes to IR35 legislation in April 2021
- Adequacy Decisions under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018
- A first-time buyer's guide to conveyancing
- PFI update — insurance premium risk sharing and expiry
- Employee privacy: E-mails sent from business account not confidential says Court of Appeal
- Further update: right to work (RTW) checks
- The High Court considers the validity of tenancies granted by fraudulent employees of the landlord
- The challenges male victims face as victims of crimes considered under the term violence against women and girls
- Ofwat’s public value principles
- Defra consultation on Government’s storm overflows discharge reduction plan
- B Corporations — A sign of your company’s purpose in an ESG-focused world
- Disputes on death: What are the options?
- Charitable and philanthropic giving — creating a sustainable global future
- Implementation of the liberty protection safeguards
- Greater clarity urgently needed on new rules relating to high fat salt and sugar products and their application to franchises and symbol groups
- Closing the technology skills gap with overseas talent
- Making sufficient enquiries — gender reassignment and the public sector equality duty
- P&O Ferries: A breakdown
- The new UK Scale-up visa
- Data breach litigation — more useful High Court guidance
- Consultation on Online Advertising Programme
- Turning the tide against vexatious litigants
- Evolving family units: understanding your legal position
- Fluoridation of water supplies — an update
- University student complaints over courses hit record
- The Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021 (HFSS Regulations)
- Why it is advisable to obtain professional legal advice when dealing with estate administration?
- Data reform returns to the agenda
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- Trust Registration Service — To register or not to register? That is the question
- The Building Safety Act 2022 receives Royal Assent
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- The Procurement Bill: a new UK public procurement landscape
- Court of Appeal dismisses data retention appeal
- All party committee demands fresh approach to asbestos management
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- Liberty Protection Safeguards — A summary of the consultation
- A new draft MCA code of practice
- How a new reference source will help cohabiting couples to separate
- Workplace mental health in the pandemic — why causation will be a key battleground
- Clarifications to the 2018 prescription act in Scotland
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- COVID-19: Return-to-work refuser was fairly dismissed
- Making the most of a multi-channel offering
- Unfair dismissal: Must a finding of discrimination always make dismissal unfair?
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- Some clarity regarding subsisting agreement and the Electronic Communications Code
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- Last mile delivery — The twilight drone
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- Right to work Q&A
- New Mental Health Bill 2022
- Human Rights Act 1998 Article 3 — no retrospective engagement
- Fall in workplace fatalities — evidence of a safer society?
- The Building Safety Act 2022
- The Great Resignation
- Ofwat proposes to use its new licence modification powers
- Six months since inception — what do we know about the COVID-19 Public Inquiry so far?
- Changes to COVID-19 related sickness absence in the NHS
- Retail crime survey highlights growing concerns over workplace violence
- A watershed in environmental supply chain due diligence
- Can the occupier and employer both be liable?
- New standards of transparency and accountability in the management of social and environmental risk
- Digital right to work checks for British and Irish Citizens
- Part year workers — how should leave be calculated?
- A stitch in time: recovering distressed IT projects
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- A new approach to Community Treatment Orders
- Liability for trespassers
- NHS announces new system for investigating serious incidents
- The new nominated person: the replacement for the role of nearest relative
- ‘Return of the cap’? Public sector exit payments: consultation on new controls process
- Health and safety prosecutions
- Funding your child's further education
- Exciting changes afoot following the law commission’s recommendations for reform
- COVID-19, consent and accessibility in GP practices
- Mediation in complex children cases
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- Storm overflows and the new legislative pressures
- The purpose of public inquiries: learning lessons from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry
- Are we on the verge of proper implementation of a sustainable drainage system regime in England?
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- Is net zero enough?
- Mental Health Bill | Appropriate medical treatment
- The Growth Plan 2022 — key summary
- Stressful business
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- Low costs and low expectations
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- A Public Health emergency — Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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- Building costs inflation — Part one: challenging times for property damage insurers
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- Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993 — rules for principals and agents
- Directors must be cautious of the Supreme Court’s decision in BTI v Sequana
- How does the ESG agenda align with charitable donations and trusts?
- Proposed reform to the rights of cohabitants in England and Wales
- New registration and record keeping requirements for express trust arrangements arising in corporate transactions
- COVID-19 Inquiry — local authorities to preserve papers
- Mediation and domestic abuse
- Do judges believe witnesses?
- The current law on cohabitation in Scotland and England and proposed reforms to the law both sides of the border
- The headlines from the decisions in Stonegate, Greggs and Various Eateries - further clarity on policy coverage for BI claims relating to COVID-19
- How do you change a child’s name?
- Subject access requests, delays and claims
- Terminating a contract? Look before you leap…
- High Potential Individual Visa — your questions answered
- Proprietary estoppel: a review of the Supreme Court decision in Guest v Guest
- “The time to eradicate mental health stigma and discrimination is now”
- MoJ Portal interim payments — A long awaited decision on paragraph 7.12!
- PFAs — “forever chemicals” linked with raised risks to health
- Riding the mean streets
- John Lewis- never knowingly an occupier
- Finding the balance — public law duties in private prosecutions
- An inquest remains an inquisitorial and relatively summary process. It is not a surrogate public inquiry
- Lifetime planning tips for dealing with digital assets
- The Scottish Law Commission’s report on cohabitants in Scotland has now been published
- Getting the safety net in place: addressing the risks of falls from height in the workplace
- CQC review shows that change and improvement is too slow for those with a learning disability and autism
- Inheritance tax and siblings: proposed reform
- Improving supply contract management
- The Register of Offshore Entities: UK properties held in offshore structures — what you need to know
- Autumn Statement 2022 — highlights
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- Home Office | Autumn Statement of changes to the Immigration Rules (HC719) | 2022
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- A roadmap for the year ahead: What will transport regulation look like in 2023?
- HSE statistics show rising cost of workplace stress, depression and anxiety
- Extension of ban on exclusivity clauses
- Could a thaw in regulation follow the coming harsh winter?
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- The crisis within the Family Court and Non-Court alternatives
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- Claimant’s “fundamental dishonesty” debars all of £3 million damages claim
- High fat, sugar and salt: Online focus and compliance
- Cohabitation agreements: steps you should consider when living together as an unmarried couple
- The future of mediation
- Are you sure that this claim is proceeding in the DCP?
- Forklift trucks – Warehousing - Spotlight on workplace transport safety
- Frequently asked questions about family investment companies
- NHS employers issues guidance on menopause in the workplace
- HR tips for Healthcare employers over the Christmas period
- A challenge to French succession planning? Key takeaways for those with assets in France
- Adjudication enforcement: arbitration provisions
- Liquidated damages: friend or foe?
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- Campaign launched to protect ‘abused’ retail employers
- An overview on group reorganisations and restructures
- Working in cold weather — how employers and organisations can mitigate the risks
- The ‘sick man of Europe’ — how poor mental health is impeding the UK’s economic recovery
- Scottish Football Association seek to mitigate risks of neurodegenerative disease from heading
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- An e-bike or not an e-bike? That is the question
- Building Safety Act 2022 continues to evolve
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- Family Mediation Week: 16 - 20 January 2023
- The future of flexible working — what do employers need to know?
- And so it begins!
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- Coroner’s duties to prevent future deaths
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- Not quite last orders for vicarious liability
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- The Evolution of Martyn’s Law: the Protect Duty
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- Spring Budget 2023 — highlights
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