Posts from April 2022
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Joanne Moseley
Redundancy: employer using 'focus' as part of selection criteria discriminated against mother of four
In Long v British Gas, the tribunal had to determine whether the selection criteria the employer used to determine who to make redundant...
28/04/22
Elizabeth Thomson
What does the Economic Crime Act mean for lenders?
Polly Seale and I answer key questions about the new register. The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 received royal...
27/04/22
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
Nicola Gooch
Signs of Stress: What do the cracks in the planning system mean for planning reform and the levelling up agenda?
Over the last few months, I have noticed a steady drip of stories which should really trouble Ministers at DLUHC, assuming that they ever...
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
Jill Crawford
Net Zero Strategy: Friend of the Earth's legal challenge granted permission
In January of this year, Friends of the Earth, Client Earth and the not for profit Good Law Project launched separate judicial review...
20/04/22
Nicola Gooch
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
Claire Petricca-Riding
The Energy Security Strategy – Providing very little security at all
Everyone in the energy sector – from humble planning and environmental lawyers such as myself to CEO’s of energy organisations have been...
08/04/22
Nicola Gooch
Jigsaw Puzzle Politics: The case for a more holistic approach to planning
I have spent a lot of time over the last week pondering why there are so many - completely disjointed - statutory regimes which overlay...
08/04/22
Elizabeth Thomson
Post Pandemic Business on the Move
Tim Rayner is Joint Head of Real Estate Disputes at Irwin Mitchell and Co Heads the Office Occupier Group The announcement by Currys last...
07/04/22
Joanne Moseley
Government rejects compulsory ethnic pay gap reporting
Last year we speculated about whether the government was going to compel large employers to report on their ethnic pay gaps after it told...
06/04/22
Charlotte Hargreaves
A not so minor pentatonic predicament resolved: Ed Sheeran wins at the High Court
With the judgment published, the battle between the respective writers of Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’ and Sami Switch’s ‘Oh Why’ has made...
06/04/22
Ted Powell
A smart approach to ESG – practical tips for GCs
Environment, social and governance (“ESG”) issues are more important than ever and it’s essential for business leaders to have a clear...
05/04/22
Joanne Moseley
New guidance on self-isolation and reducing the spread of COVID-19: implications for the education sector
COVID-19 continues to cause widespread disruption across schools and colleges. Leaders are finding it increasingly difficult to cover...
04/04/22
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