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UK Immigration White Paper– Part 4: Increases to the English language requirement
On 12 May 2025, the UK Government released its white paper, Restoring Control Over the Immigration System, which introduces significant...
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A Cautious Welcome for the UK-EU Trade Reset – and What It Means for Business
The recent UK-EU summit held at Lancaster House on 19 May 2025 marked a significant moment in the evolving relationship between the...
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UK Immigration White Paper– Part 3: The Care Worker visa
On 12 May 2025 the Home Office published a white paper outlining proposed changes to the UK immigration system. One of the most...
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PIB in Committee: Planning Fees, Training and the National Scheme of Delegation
For most of this week, the Public Bills Committee has been debating the Planning & Infrastructure Bill. Most of the headlines and...
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UK Immigration White Paper - Part 2: Immigration Skills Charge
On 12 May 2025, the Home Office published its latest white paper, Restoring Control Over the Immigration System, outlining a series of...
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Aarhus under scrutiny: but how concerned do those dealing with planning challenges need to be?
A Court of Appeal judgment handed down this week has got some feeling anxious about the future application of Aarhus costs cap orders....
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Do retailers have to provide single sex toilets and changing rooms for their customers and staff?
Last month the Supreme Court decided that sex in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Accordingly, when it refers to men, it...
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Uk Immigration White Paper - Part 1: Skill level threshold and temporary shortage list
On 12 May 2025, the Home Office published its latest white paper, Restoring Control Over the Immigration System, outlining a series of...
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Under 18s and Responsible Gambling Sponsorship in Football
On 11 May 2025, Jeremy Monga, a 15-year-old player with Leicester City FC, was brought on as a substitute to play for the final 13...
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Enforcing Contract Terms under Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 – Case Spotlight
The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 permits third parties to enforce contract terms even if they are not a party to the...
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Do you need to inform someone on maternity leave of job vacancies and opportunities to be promoted?
It's important to keep in touch with an employee when they are on maternity leave. But if a school or college fails to tell the employee...
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School exclusions: Court of Appeal downplays the public sector equality duty in the decision making process
In TZA v A Secondary School, the Court of Appeal had to decide if a school had breached its Public Sector Equality Duty by excluding a...
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Do schools and colleges have to provide single-sex toilets for their students?
The Court of Session in Scotland has said that Scottish schools must provide single-sex toilets for their male and female pupils. We...
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UK-India Trade Deal – Effects on Immigration?
Following three years of negotiations, the UK Government announced on 6 May 2025 that the UK and India have approved a trade agreement...
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Hot topics in Life Sciences
In this article, I will explore some of the commercial issues presently impacting the life sciences sector, focusing on the UK while also...
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The implications for directors' duties of the High Court's decision in Stacks Living Ltd and others v Shergill and another
KEY POINTS A director is under an irreducible duty to inform him or herself at least to some extent about the company's business and...
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UK-India Trade Deal: A Strategic Shift Toward Growth
The newly announced UK-India trade agreement marks a pivotal moment in the evolving relationship between two of the world’s most dynamic...
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PIB in the Spotlight: MHCLG publishes impact assessment for the Planning & Infrastructure Bill
Yesterday, MHCLG published the long-awaited impact assessment for the Planning & Infrastructure Bill. It is a beast of a report with...
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Signing on the dotted line: how to get your contract across the finish line
We often find that clients will have worked hard negotiating contracts but once everything is agreed and the parties are ready to enter...
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Can you lawfully dismiss someone if you later find out they've omitted important information from their job application?
How honest do you expect candidates to be about their job history? Do precise dates really matter? And what can you do if, after...
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Playing Catch Up: Key cases, More PIB Amendments, Beavers and Hot Cross Plans
The Bank Holiday is over. The children are back in school and most of the chocolate wrappers have been tidied away. As we all slowly...
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Revised guidance for schools and colleges is on the way following Supreme Court ruling on biological sex
In a House of Commons debate on 22 April 2025, following the For Women Scotland Supreme Court ruling that sex in the Equality Act 2010...
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Indirect discrimination: to what extent does a requirement to travel outside of core childcare hours create disadvantage to women?
Despite significant changes in societal and family norms, women still shoulder more childcare responsibilities than men. Tribunals have...
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External job applicants: Court of Appeal confirm they don't have whistleblowing protections
Workers are protected from being subjected to any detriment on the ground that they have made a protected disclosure. But who is a...
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A-Z on the Precedent Z
Effective from 6 April 2025, the realm of costs budgeting will undergo one of its most significant updates since the introduction of...
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Breaking news: sex in the Equality Act 2010 means biological - not certificated sex
The Supreme Court has today handed down its judgment in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers. It has unanimously held that...
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Teacher who said being LGBTQ+ was a sin and transgender people were "just confused" fails to overturn finding that she was guilty of unacceptable professional conduct
In Leger v Secretary of State for Education a teacher argued that the regulator had made an error of law and/or had breached her human...
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Free speech warning for HE and FE sector: get the law right or prepare to pay a substantial fine
Last month the Office for Students (OfS) decided that the University of Sussex had breached its conditions of registration by failing to...
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Challenges in Establishing Implied Retainers: Insights from Cooke & Ors v Woodchurch House Ltd
Cooke & Ors v Woodchurch House Ltd (Rev1) [2023] EWHC 3318 (SCCO) highlights difficulties that can arise when the Claimant is seeking to...
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Without 'no touching' policy it was unfair to dismiss Ofsted inspector for brushing rain off pupil
An unexpected rainstorm led to the dismissal of Mr Hewston, an Ofsted inspector, after he brushed water off a boy's head and touched his...
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