Posts from June 2018
Nicola Gooch
Mind the Gaps: mixed messages, conflicts and trip hazards within the planning system.
As much as I love all things planning law (and I am real geek about my chosen area of practice... you may have noticed), even I have to...
29/06/18
Irwin Mitchell
Pay Gap vs Equal Pay
This article nicely demonstrates the confusion often found in media coverage, between the issue of the gender pay gap and discrimination...
27/06/18
Irwin Mitchell
Menopause discrimination case to be appealed
Many women suffer when going through the menopause and they can and do experience difficulties at work. Mandy Davies brought claims for...
27/06/18
Irwin Mitchell
Another view on "Land Banking"
Quite rightly, the Housebuilding industry has been relieved and justified in the way that the interim Letwin report published last week...
26/06/18
Irwin Mitchell
ET rules that Hermes couriers are workers and not self-employed
In the week following the Supreme Court decision in Pimlico Plumbers v Smith, an employment tribunal in Leeds has decided that 65 Hermes...
26/06/18
Nicola Gooch
Planning SoS: What can we learn from James Brokenshire's first seven planning decisions?
Until fairly recently, our new Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government had been keeping a relatively low...
19/06/18
Elizabeth Thomson
Supreme Court favours certainty over flexibility (and honour?)
In the recent case of Rock Advertising Ltd v MWB Business Exchange Centres Limited the Supreme Court considered a "truly fundamental...
13/06/18
Joanne Moseley
Plumber wins workers' rights battle against Pimlico Plumbers
The Supreme Court has confirmed that one of Pimlico's plumbers, Mr Smith is a worker entitled to employment benefits including the right...
13/06/18
Irwin Mitchell
Move to force justification of pay gap between workers and bosses
Businesses and organisations employing more than 250 employees are already under a statutory obligation to publish gender pay gap...
11/06/18
Nicola Gooch
Court of Appeal: Unlawful use is not an automatic barrier to registering an Asset of Community Value
On 23 May 2018, the Court of Appeal handed down a Judgment in relation to how assets of community value are registered, which could have...
07/06/18
Irwin Mitchell
World Cup - Acas launches new guidance
As football fans eagerly look forward to the kick-off of the FIFA 2018 World Cup, new guidance has this week been issued by Acas to help...
04/06/18