Posts from February 2023
Joanne Moseley
How likely are you to get the right candidate if your job advert requires someone prepared to 'live and breathe' the job?
Morale in schools and colleges is low. Many teachers and other staff have already gone on strike and, according to the National Education...
28/02/23
Mandeep Khroud
The Pret Foundation: Expert advice for the hospitality sector
Pret A Manger has employed 250 Ukrainian refugees as part of its initiative set up to support those fleeing the conflict. The Pret...
28/02/23
Elizabeth Mutter
An introduction to… planning enforcement
If development is carried out without required planning permission, this is a breach of planning control. Likewise, failure to comply...
28/02/23
Thomas Barnard
Tiger Woods: So-called 'banter' could put endorsement deals at risk
Tiger Woods is of course a sporting icon and never fails to attract the headlines – but it is not always for the right reasons. He was in...
21/02/23
Akhil Sharma
India: Hedging, repo and stock lending update
Recent Indian legislation provides a legal framework for the recognition of close-out netting. Previously, the legal position was...
20/02/23
Marcus Collins
Watchdog upholds two complaints against Huel ruling adverts were misleading
In these straitened times, there is a strong temptation for manufacturers to use money saving tips and claims to promote their products....
20/02/23
Jeremy Ladyman
Interest Rate Hedging - an introduction for borrowers and current market trends
The era of zero interest rate policies is over. We have grown accustomed to living in a low interest rate economy. Rates are still well...
16/02/23
Melody Li
Protection of trees: what developers and landowners need to know
Our Protection of Trees webinar was hosted by Jill Crawford and Tracy Lovejoy from our Planning and Environment team on 9 February. In...
16/02/23
Charlotte Rees-John
‘Skintellectuals’, ‘hybrid high streets’ and the ‘lipstick effect’
When Boots announces its predictions for the biggest trends in beauty retail for the coming year, I think it’s wise to sit up and take...
16/02/23
Pamela Chesterman
How ‘real’ is ‘reality TV’: Clarkson, ‘Diddly Squat’, farm diversification and planning
Spoiler Alert - if you’ve not yet watched the series but plan to, don’t read this – I give the whole game away. I enjoyed the last series...
15/02/23
Pamela Chesterman
NPPF Consultation 2022 – Housing
“Our house, in the middle of a self-build, key-worker neighbourhood community” Might the changes to housing be the radical reform long...
15/02/23
Natalie Cane
LDC versus George Downing and European Sheeting Ltd
On 23 December 2022, the Technology and Construction Court released its most recent judgment in relation to cladding defects. It provided...
15/02/23
Joanne Moseley
New proposals will give casual workers the right to ask for a predictable work contract
At the beginning of the year, I speculated that the long-promised right for insecure workers to ask to change their contract to reflect...
15/02/23
Joanne Bone
Cookies, consent and banner compliance: What organisations need to know about the EDPB's new best practice guidance
All businesses, organisations and sole traders who own a website or app using cookies will want to revisit their cookies compliance...
14/02/23
Graham Thomson
Cyber Security: Staying secure in a digital age
The cost of cyber security in the UK was a staggering £3.1 billion in 2022 according to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau. On a...
14/02/23
Joanne Moseley
What other employers can learn from McDonald's legal commitment to eliminate sexual harassment from its restaurants
McDonald's has acknowledged that it has a serious problem with workplace sexual harassment. It has reached a legal agreement with the...
14/02/23
Charlotte Rees-John
Significant rise in pub and bar insolvencies
The latest statistics from UHY Hacker Young which reveal the financial difficulties faced by pubs and bars are disappointing and very...
14/02/23
Tracy Lovejoy
Planning changes and the problem of slow build-outs
Among the many changes proposed to the planning system are changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (the ‘NPPF’). The changes...
14/02/23
Nicola Gooch
Mind the Funding Gap: The curious case of s.106 contributions funding NHS services
February seems to have been a month for fascinating planning cases. First, we had Mr Armstrong's one man mission to clarify the scope of...
14/02/23
Joanne Moseley
Do you have to pay staff if you can't operate your business due to energy blackouts?
Last month, the government announced that it was going to scale back business energy subsidies for the next financial year by about 85%....
13/02/23
Melody Li
Green efforts: a look at latest environmental updates and policies from the UK government
The current UK government’s environmental plan - “Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution” was announced in November 2020 by...
13/02/23
Andrew Walker
UK economy narrowly avoided recession
Although technically we’re not in a recession, the reality is that the wheels of the economy haven't turned effectively for a while....
10/02/23
Bryan Bletso
Cross border M&A activity into the UK remains strong despite Q4 blip
The appetite amongst overseas’ buyers to complete mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the UK fell in the last quarter of 2022 but was...
08/02/23
Richard James
Polishing the old crystal ball…
It is difficult to know what 2023 is going to bring. Let’s be honest, the predictions of would-be Nostradamuses in January 2022 would...
07/02/23
Nicola Gooch
Pick & mix planning: Fees, s.73, Article 4 and LURB in the Lords
A lot has happened since my last post*, so much that I couldn't choose a single topic to write about. Instead, I have picked a selection...
03/02/23
Kunal Gadhvi
Restaurants must remain resilient as outlook remains bleak
Restaurants have been impacted by a fall in consumer spending and many of them will have hoped for a stronger run-up to Christmas without...
02/02/23
Thomas Freeman
Supreme Court backs residents against Tate Modern in viewing gallery case
You may have already seen in the news that the owners of flats adjacent to the Tate Gallery’s viewing platform have won their “privacy”...
01/02/23