Posts from December 2019
Joanne Moseley
New Withdrawal Bill contains mechanism to roll back employment rights
The government has today published the Withdrawal Agreement Bill which sets out the terms under which the UK will leave the EU. It...
20/12/19
Irwin Mitchell
The Queens Speech - what's in it for Real Estate?
Well after the second snap election in the last couple of years, the Tories have their majority! And today saw the Queens Speech. So -...
19/12/19
Elizabeth Thomson
New ruling on surveying sites for electronic communications apparatus installation - A clearer signal?
Real Estate trainee, Elliot Cuozzo, considers a recent case. The Electronic Communications Code (Code) confers rights on operators to...
18/12/19
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and slaying the dragon of indecision
As the UK and the World beyond begin to digest the implications of the emphatic Conservative Party victory in the UK General Election of...
13/12/19
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and the Regions
In October 2018, the Financial Inclusion Centre, an economic think tank, produced a report (funded by the Barrow Cadbury Trust) entitled...
13/12/19
Irwin Mitchell
Manifesto Watch: How the Parties Compare on (Social) Housing
Since Nicola set out the first overview comparing the parties on Green Belt, PD Rights and Housing Delivery and signposted other planning...
12/12/19
Nicola Gooch
Manifesto Watch 2019: How do the Parties compare on Housing Policy?
There is only a day to go until the election and the one thing that all commentators can agree on is that there are a lot of undecided...
11/12/19
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and the Manufacturing sector
On 1 November 2019, "The Guardian" newspaper reported that Britain's factories had suffered a sixth consecutive month of falling new...
10/12/19
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and the future of the United Kingdom
There is growing speculation as to what impact Brexit might have on the future integrity of the United Kingdom - particularly a "no deal"...
10/12/19
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and further issues on the Northern Ireland Protocol
There has been little public discussion between the major political parties during the current UK General Election campaign about the...
09/12/19
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit, the OECD and international trade wars
Under the banner title: " France's hard cheese could spread to UK", The Times of 4th December 2019 reports on the US's threat to levy...
05/12/19
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and new free trade deals
Under World Trade Organisation (WTO) Rules, if the UK is able to negotiate new free trade deals with the EU and separately with non-EU...
04/12/19
Irwin Mitchell
Brexit and the importance of keeping an eye on the ball
Research produced by the information company, Thomson Reuters, and reported in "City AM" on 2nd December 2019 and "The Times" a day later...
03/12/19
Joanne Moseley
Supreme Court: Employee unfairly dismissed even though decision maker genuinely didn't know she had raised whistle-blowing allegations
In an important judgment, the Supreme Court in Jhuti v Royal Mail has ruled that an employee who was dismissed for poor performance was,...
03/12/19
Joanne Moseley
Can you use the Tier 2 (Intra-company transfer) visa route for someone who is not an employee of your overseas operations?
The Tier 2 (intra-company transfer) (“ICT “) visa offers a simplified route for international companies to transfer existing staff from...
02/12/19