Posts from April 2021
Nicola Gooch
Back to Reality: High Court rules against Virtual Committees
Yesterday, the High Court laid to rest our last hope of virtual committee meetings being able to continue past 7 May 2021, when it handed...
29/04/21
Danielle Parsons
WFH: Working from Home from Away
Remote working is now the new normal for many employees, and it’s hard to imagine that everyone will want to make a full-time return to...
28/04/21
Joanne Moseley
Covid-19: summer schools programme now open
Schools in England can now register to offer a summer school to help secondary aged children catch up some of the learning they have lost...
27/04/21
Irwin Mitchell
Part 26A challenge costs: to be determined following Virgin Active sanction
A balancing act Creditors with legitimate grounds to challenge scheme or restructuring plan proposals and who assist the court in so...
23/04/21
Elizabeth Thomson
Budget 2021: What’s in it for real estate?
Stuart Tym, Claire Petricca‑Riding and Paul Henson consider the Chancellor’s Budget delivered on 3 March. Energy The March Budget...
22/04/21
Joanne Moseley
Right to work checks - Covid flexibility due to end on 16 May
This week the government updated its guidance on coronavirus (COVID-19): right to work checks. During the pandemic, organisations could...
22/04/21
Joanne Moseley
Holidays abroad - employers' questions answered
Earlier this month, the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, said that people can 'start to think about foreign travel' again. He didn't...
22/04/21
Jane Anderson
Weddings in a pandemic – where are we now as we come out of coronavirus lockdown ?
By Katherine East, a solicitor at Irwin Mitchell It’s been a year, almost to the day, since Katherine East wrote an article about the...
21/04/21
Jane Anderson
Held to ransom by a cyberattack
Dominique Dolman and Lily Pidge from the Commercial Disputes Resolution Team consider the impact of a Cyberattack. Introduction In the...
19/04/21
Nicola Gooch
My what big teeth you have! High Court invalidates CIL liability notice issued 2 years and 6 months after the grant of planning permission
One of the biggest inadequacies of the CIL Regulations* is that they are entirely silent about the consequences of non-compliance by a...
19/04/21
Joanne Moseley
Do home workers need a 'right' to disconnect?
Earlier this year, the European Parliament asked the EU Commission to come up with a new EU law which would give employees a right to...
15/04/21
Nicola Gooch
Mixed messages on planning as the economy starts to re-open
It feels like April 12th has been circled in our diaries for an age. Hairdressers and shops are finally starting to re-open. The long...
13/04/21
Joanne Moseley
Covid-19: employee who refused to return to work because be believed his workplace posed a 'serious and imminent' danger loses unfair dismissal claim
In Rodgers v Leeds Laser Cutting Limited, the Employment Tribunal had to decide if an employee had been unfairly dismissed after he...
13/04/21
Irwin Mitchell
First Homes?
Back in June 2019 I wrote a star-gazing passle piece trying to take the clues from the revised Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations...
08/04/21
Joanne Moseley
Another tribunal finds that menopausal symptoms amount to a disability
Some years ago we highlighted the case of Davies v Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service which considered whether menopausal symptoms...
08/04/21
Irwin Mitchell
Keeping it Class E: the Regs are out!
Just before Easter Nicola wrote about a MHCLG Announcement detailing that at a new set of permitted development rights for Class E to...
08/04/21
Joanne Moseley
COVID-19: employee who refused to wear a mask was fairly dismissed
In Kubilius v Kent Foods, the Employment Tribunal had to decide if a lorry driver was unfairly dismissed for refusing to wear a face...
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Joanne Moseley
Home Office reverses immigration rules on 'foreign suppliers'
A recent change to immigration laws has made it easier for foreign businesses to send EU workers to the UK to fulfil contractual...
08/04/21
David Shirt
Get rich quick or too good to be true? - giveaway raffles, staying on the right side of gambling provision regulations
By Craig Weston and Alexandra Marchant from Irwin Mitchell's Regulatory Investigation Group Giveaway raffles are becoming more prevalent...
01/04/21
Joanne Moseley
How has Covid-19 affected the educational prospects of children and young people with SEND?
The all-party parliamentary group for special educational needs and disabilities has published its report on the experiences of young...
01/04/21