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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
Joanne Moseley
Education news in brief - April 2021
Police say sexual abuse rife in UK’s state and private schools The website everyonesinvited.uk was created to expose how young people...
31/03/21
Nicola Gooch
Keeping it Class E: New Class E to Residential PD Rights to take effect on 1 August 2021
This morning, MHCLG announced that a new set of permitted development rights for Class E to Residential use will be laid before...
31/03/21
Joanne Moseley
Employment Appeals Tribunal starts to diffuse the holiday pay time bomb
When the European Court of Justice published its judgment in King v Sash Windows in 2017, we speculated that it would expose some...
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Irwin Mitchell
An unequal playing field? Tackling gender inequality in rugby
The Women’s Six Nations tournament kicks off next month and, for the first time, it isn’t being played alongside the men’s tournament....
29/03/21
David Shirt
Is your institution having problems with your IT supplier?
Steve Murphy from Irwin Mitchell's litigation team asks education establishments if they are having problems with their IT supplier and...
29/03/21
David Shirt
Asda workers win latest round of long-running equal pay fight
By Sacha Sokhi, an employment law specialist at Irwin Mitchell: “The Supreme Court has upheld previous decisions that lower paid shop...
26/03/21
David Shirt
Unlawful Conduct –v – Unlawful conduct…Who wins?
By Lily Pidge and Dominique Dolman The case of Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority v Azima [2021] EWCA Civ 349 considered the highly...
26/03/21
Georgie Collins
Johnny Depp refused permission to appeal libel ruling
By Jasmine Fearnley and Georgie Collins On 25 March 2021 the Court of Appeal refused Johnny Depp’s application to appeal the High Court’s...
26/03/21
Stephanie Reeves
Business Interruption Insurance – insurers start to pay out
It is over two months since the Supreme Court handed down its appeal judgment (the “Judgment”) in the Financial Conduct Authority’s...
25/03/21
Liam Salt
Winding-up petition ban extended, but concerns remain (Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020)
by Patrick Finn - Senior Associate, Restructuring & Insolvency On 24 March 2021 through The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020...
25/03/21
Irwin Mitchell
Return to grassroots sport: health & safety considerations
On 22 February 2021 the Prime Minister announced a “roadmap” out of national lockdown. As part of this we can once again look forward to...
25/03/21
Nicola Gooch
HCLG Select Committee launches inquiry into Permitted Development Rights.
PD, or not PD, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the ongoing indignities of lower housing delivery figures,...
24/03/21