Melanie Bancroft

Manufacturing and collaborative R&D - Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha work together on standardised battery

As large manufacturers begin to see the benefits in collaborative R&D including lower development costs, time to market reductions, wider...

27/04/22

Joanne Moseley

EAT decides that employee who took voluntary redundancy could claim unfair dismissal

In White v HC-One Oval Ltd the EAT had to decide if an employee who had taken voluntary redundancy could pursue an unfair dismissal...

21/04/22

Elizabeth Thomson

Limiting and excluding liability in your professional appointments

The recent challenges the industry has experienced are expected to continue into 2022. Coupled with the issues some consultants are...

20/04/22

Irwin Mitchell

Faster, Higher, Stronger….Together: Is it time to bring back the Planning Olympics?

I stumbled across a quite interesting piece of trivia over the bank holiday weekend:* Town Planning used to be an Olympic Sport.  Between...

19/04/22

Charlotte Hargreaves

NFTs in the music industry and your intellectual property

The recent notoriety of HitPiece’s website, positioning itself as a new platform for the trading of music related NFTs, caused outrage...

04/04/22

Joanne Moseley

New guidance on self-isolation and reducing the spread of COVID-19

Despite the fact that 1 in 13 people are currently estimated to have COVID-19, universal free testing has ended in England. Anyone who...

03/04/22

Joanne Moseley

Discrimination: increase in injury to feelings awards

Individuals who bring successful discrimination claims are entitled to be compensated for the upset and hurt they have suffered by way of...

03/04/22