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Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and the European Parliament

The Parliament of the EU ("the European Parliament") has set out its stall on the proposed EU objectives for a Free Trade Agreement...

14/02/20
Joanne Moseley

New scheme to 'name and shame' employers who break NMW law

The government has recently announced that it intends to re-start naming and shaming employers who fail to pay the national minimum wage....

14/02/20
Nicola Gooch

Everyday I'm Shuffling: A brief round-up of Politics, Planning & the odd court case

It has been an  eventful few days,  so this post is going to be a little bit of a mash-up of current events. Starting, of course, with: A...

14/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and UK-EU dispute resolution on financial services matters

In the lead-up to UK-EU free trade negotiations, the two sides are shadow-boxing on particular issues that concern them. Trade in...

13/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and designing the future trading relationship between the UK and the EU

A couple of straws in the wind point to the  UK's direction of travel in its upcoming trade negotiations with the EU. This is even though...

12/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and the introduction of import controls on EU goods

In a speech on 10 February 2020 to delegates at a UK Cabinet Office-hosted event entitled "Preparing our Border for the Future...

11/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and consumer law

The prospect of divergence between EU rules and UK law and practice following the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020 is...

10/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and the European Court of Justice

One of the contentious areas of any future trade negotiations between the UK and the EU is the role of the European Court of Justice...

07/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

The #first Home (consultation) you are trying to access is broken...

And no, that's not a comment on our #broken housing market, just the current state of Whitehall IT programming apparently. Back in June I...

07/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and MiFID II

MiFID II is EU legislation (including the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation-MiFIR) which came into force on 3 January 2018  to...

06/02/20
Joanne Moseley

Time to talk about mental health

Today is #TimeToTalk day - a day that encourages everyone to talk about mental health.  Mental health problems affect one in four of us....

06/02/20
Joanne Moseley

New Bill seeks to give women the right to know how much their male colleagues are paid

The Fawcett Society has supported a new Bill which, if enacted, will modernise the law on equal pay. The Equal Pay Bill will give women...

05/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and trading under WTO rules

The UK Government "Transition Period" website is generating useful information on the post- Brexit  cross-border trading environment for...

05/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and differing approaches to free trade negotiations

The 3 February 2020  saw the UK and EU setting out their different stalls for the free trade negotiations, which are due to take place...

04/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

A Fishy tale...

By Rob Coleridge and Natalie Francis One of the fun things in writing about consumer related issues is the opportunity for puns. In that...

04/02/20
Joanne Moseley

Is your employee sick or skiving?

Today is #nationalsickie day and a good opportunity to re-run the most popular article I've ever written. How do you tell if your...

03/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and UK company law

With the UK's exit from the EU on 31 January 2020 and the immediate commencement thereafter of the transition period which is to last...

03/02/20
Joanne Moseley

Post Brexit UK immigration - what's changed?

The UK left the EU last week. Our immigration expert Ben Xu explains what that means for employers wishing to recruit or retain EU...

03/02/20
Nicola Gooch

It's the end of the world as we know it: So what's next?

I am writing this post* on the UK's first day outside of the European Union for 45 years.** It is also, co-incidentally, the first time...

01/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and changing times

On this momentous day, the 31st day of January 2020, as the UK prepares to depart the European Union at 11pm (UK time), it may be...

31/01/20
Joanne Moseley

Will workers’ rights change after Brexit?

The UK leaves the EU at 11pm tonight - January 31 2020. Despite the ‘get Brexit done’ message, there will be no immediate changes to our...

31/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Disclosure Pilot Scheme: where are we now?

In January 2019 we saw the introduction of the two-year Disclosure Pilot Scheme in the Business and Property Courts. What is the...

30/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Extending the Fixed Recoverable Costs Regime

The Ministry of Justice is consulting on measures to extend the Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) regime to incorporate an expanded fast...

30/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Is there an obligation of good faith in commercial contracts?

On 8 January 2020, the High Court confirmed in Wales v CBRE Managed Services Limited and Aviva Administration Limited that a duty of good...

30/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit: what's next?

Following the Conservative Party winning December’s general election by a significant majority, the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement)...

30/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit, the Digital Copyright Directive and Creeping Divergence

One of the more controversial pieces of EU legislation recently is the so-called Digital Copyright Directive of 17 April 2019 (EU...

30/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit, rights of access to EU trade deals and the importance of an asterisk

Article 129 (1) of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement essentially confirms that during the transition period extending from 11pm (UK time) on...

30/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and UK trade policy for the food and drink industry

On 27 January 2020 , three prestigious UK  food and drink sector Defra-sponsored representative  groupings - the Food and Drink...

28/01/20
Joanne Moseley

New report suggests tougher penalties needed to deter employers from underpaying staff

Research published by the Resolution Foundation indicates that there has been an increase in the number of businesses underpaying the...

28/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and Green Finance

"Green Finance" is very much in the news at the moment following the UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid in December 2019 and...

27/01/20