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Claire Petricca-Riding
Environmental News Round Up - 8 September 2023
Reassessing Energy Commitments: The UK’s Treaty Withdrawal Debate The Minister for Energy Graham Stuart indicated on 1st September that...
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Claire Petricca-Riding
Environmental news round up - 25 August 2023
This week’s environmental news round up is diving into environmental crime, and the powers of the Environment Agency to enforce against...
25/08/23
Mandeep Khroud
Summer Hospitality Blues? Our Immigration Expert Reveals Solutions to Staffing Woes
As an immigration lawyer, I understand the challenges the hospitality sector is facing in terms of skill shortages, particularly as we...
10/07/23
Stefano DAmbrosio Nunez
Supreme Court hears landmark Finch case – Do we need to consider downstream Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in planning permissions?
In 2019, planning permission Ref: RE18/02667/CON was granted for the retention and extension of the existing well site at Horse Hill and...
30/06/23
Claire Petricca-Riding
Manufacturing and the journey towards net zero
The UK manufacturing sector has faced significant change over the couple of decades but perhaps the biggest will be how it faces up to...
16/06/23
Jill Crawford
Housebuilder fined £480,000 for failure to implement measures to prevent multiple pollution incidents
In what could be seen as a clear message to large companies that cause pollution to the environment that Magistrates Courts are willing...
15/05/23
Nicola Gooch
Planning for Fools: The best planning related April Fools of the weekend, and the stories that I wish had been....
Saturday was April Fools day. I spent the morning engaged in such classic pranks as cleaning the house and doing laundry*. In honour of...
01/04/23
Erica Ives
Sustainability in sport: stadium development and planning
Like many other sectors, the sports sector faces an unprecedented challenge to become more sustainable, finding ways to mitigate its...
29/03/23
Nicola Gooch
Budget 2023: Later Living & Care
Yesterday, Jeremy Hunt delivered his first official 'non-emergency' budget as chancellor. It was billed as a Budget for Growth, with a...
16/03/23
Danielle Parsons
Why is 'loud quitting' a risky strategy?
So-called ‘loud quitting’ is a very risky strategy for many reasons. Firstly, by telling your employer that you are looking elsewhere is...
18/01/23
Joanne Moseley
New proposals will give casual workers the right to ask for a predictable work contract
At the beginning of the year, I speculated that the long-promised right for insecure workers to ask to change their contract to reflect...
15/02/23
Tracy Lovejoy
Planning changes and the problem of slow build-outs
Among the many changes proposed to the planning system are changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (the ‘NPPF’). The changes...
14/02/23
Claire Petricca-Riding
Is this the 'green print' for recovery?
Fresh on the heels of Boris Johnson's speech last week, we had a summer statement from the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak today. Last week's...
08/07/20
Nicola Gooch
Water Woes: What role can the planning system play in holding water companies to account?
I have spent an awful lot of time over the last few months thinking about water. Between nutrient and water neutrality issues, hosepipe...
23/08/22
Irwin Mitchell
s.106 & CIL - an updated Q&A in response to Viability.
It's now almost six weeks since Nicola put her thoughts on what was likely to happen with s.106 & CIL in light of the lockdown together;...
11/05/20
Nicola Gooch
In the Bleak Midwinter... Cold winds stall local plan progress, LURB heads to the Lords, the Supreme Court rules on DB Symmetry & other news
It has been yet another busy old week in the wonderful world of planning. So in between dodging snowballs, ice-skating along the...
16/12/22
Nicola Gooch
Best Laid Plans: Local Plans, LURB & Litter... nothing is quite working out as intended
Like many things in the last few weeks, this post has not gone to plan. I had intended to write it before the weekend, but both of my...
09/08/22
Joanne Moseley
Managing shift workers: how to avoid legal pitfalls
Many sectors of the UK economy rely heavily on shift working and in the UK, around four million people (14% of the total workforce) work...
05/07/22
Joanne Moseley
Computer says no: unpicking the employment risks of AI
Last week several newspapers ran a story about three make-up artists who had been 'dismissed by algorithm' during a redundancy exercise....
30/03/22
Elizabeth Thomson
Tips and traps for site visits
Paul Henson is a Partner and Louise Ash a Trainee Solicitor in the Real Estate Disputes Department at Irwin Mitchell The Court of Appeal...
09/03/22
Claire Petricca-Riding
No more Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions in environmental impact assessments?
By Stefano D’Ambrosio from Irwin Mitchell's Planning and Environment team In R (on the application of Sarah Finch on behalf of the Weald...
08/03/22
Liam Salt
Who has the burden of proof?
By Edward Judge - Partner, Restructuring & Insolvency In a situation where one creditor's proof of debt is questioned by a separate,...
18/01/22
Nicola Gooch
Fail to Plan: Why are Local Plans so difficult to adopt?
Pessimism does not come naturally to me, but even I would have to admit that the last few months have not been... great... for strategic...
17/02/22
Joanne Moseley
End of COVID-19 rules: what employers need to know
On Monday 21 February, the government announced that most of remaining legal rules in place to the protect the public against COVID-19...
23/02/22
Joanne Moseley
End of COVID-19 rules: implications for schools and colleges
On Monday 21 February, the government announced that most of remaining legal rules in place to the protect the public against COVID-19...
23/02/22
Nicola Gooch
Politicians in Revolt: Planning Reforms come under fire in a dramatic day in Westminster
Yesterday was a big day for the Government's Planning Reforms,* not only did back bench MPs pass a motion calling for a delay in the...
09/10/20
Joanne Moseley
Can you reduce contractual sick pay for unvaccinated members of staff?
Last week, IKEA announced that it had changed its sick pay scheme to deal with COVID-19 related absences. Staff who are unvaccinated will...
19/01/22
Nicola Gooch
The First Month of Gove: What have the last four weeks revealed about our new Secretary of State?
Remember, remember the first weeks of November, DLUHC sure did a lot, The Secretary of State to Street Votes did take, But to the Marina...
16/11/21
Joanne Moseley
Employment contract wording error about PHI benefits costs employer over £29,000
In Amdocs v Langton, the EAT had to decide if an employee was contractually entitled to annual increases in the income protection...
05/11/21
Danielle Parsons
Paycuts: Counting the cost of WFH
If you're currently working from home, it’s likely this is with the agreement of your employer. It is also likely to be because of the...
12/08/21