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Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and progressing alternative arrangements to the Irish / Northern Irish backstop

On 20th June 2019, the UK Government announced the first meeting to take place that day of the newly established Technical Alternative...

24/06/19
Joanne Moseley

Businesses urged to sign up to living hours accreditation scheme to provide job security to casual staff

The Living Wage Foundation has recently launched a new scheme - Living Hours to help zero hours and casual workers obtain some job...

24/06/19
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and the marking of positions

In these groundhog days as we await the election of a new leader of the UK Conservative and Unionist Party , time is being spent by the...

20/06/19
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and Citizens' Rights

As the "Brexit" train rolls on, stopping and starting along the way, the UK Government has been negotiating with individual EU member...

19/06/19
Nicola Gooch

A Local Plan for Local People: What happens when Residents take over Local Councils?

To say that politics is strange and unpredictable at the moment is bordering on cliché. Brexit, the Tory leadership election, and a...

19/06/19
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and the right to prorogue Parliament

There is some public debate currently between the candidates for the Conservative Party leadership and UK Prime Minister as to whether...

18/06/19
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and getting a UK EORI number

In the current UK political climate, there is much more focus on the implications of a "no-deal" Brexit than there has been for a while....

17/06/19
Lorraine Rose-Dugdale

Developer Uses Prescriptive Rights to Develop Land

The case of Stanning v Baldwin reported last week is a useful example of how prescriptive rights can be used to facilitate development of...

17/06/19
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and the European Commission's update on its own preparations for a possible "no-deal" Brexit

On 12 June 2019 the European Commission published its fifth Brexit Preparedness Communication giving its own assessment of the measures...

14/06/19
Joanne Moseley

Decision awarding trade union members over £400K reversed by Court of Appeal

Today the Court of Appeal in Kostal UK Ltd v Dunkley and Others held that trade unions with collective bargaining rights cannot prevent...

14/06/19
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and the Monarchy

The Conservative Party  hustings that are taking place to identify a new leader for the Conservative Party and a new Prime Minister for...

12/06/19
Joanne Moseley

Court of Appeal confirms voluntary overtime must be included in holiday pay

Last year, we reported the case of Flowers v East of England Ambulance Trust, where the EAT ruled that NHS staff employed under the...

12/06/19
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and Human Rights

Part of the impetus for leaving the European Union was arguably to take back control over Human Rights law. This explains why Section...

11/06/19
Joanne Moseley

Government must substantially increase compensation to deter employers from covering up discrimination

The House of Commons’ Women and Equalities Committee has today published its report into the use of non-disclosure agreements in some...

11/06/19
Irwin Mitchell

Part 3... In which I try to predict what Starter Homes will look like...

If we ever get the Regulations for them...* I could use this blog to carry on my rant from Part 2.  I could have  followed up my comments...

10/06/19
Irwin Mitchell

... Part 2; but where have they come from?

Tbf I didn't know whether to take Nicola's previous title literally and start with a spaceship meme*.  Instead I'm going to take the...

07/06/19
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and the appliance of Science

On 3rd June 2019, "The Guardian" newspaper reported on an interview with Sir Paul Nurse, the Nobel prize-winning director of the Francis...

06/06/19
Joanne Moseley

Has the government quietly dropped naming and shaming employers underpaying NMW?

The Low Pay Commission recently published its second NMW non-compliance and enforcement report, which revealed that the number of people...

06/06/19
Nicola Gooch

The CIL Regs have Landed...

It isn't very often that I feel personally victimised by a government department. That changed on Tuesday, when MHCLG published their...

06/06/19
Joanne Moseley

Knowledge and disability: what do you know and when did you find out?

What happens if you discover your employee has a disability after you've dismissed them but before you determine their appeal. Do you...

04/06/19
Nicola Gooch

From Planning Minister to Prime Minister? Some Manifesto Suggestions for Kit Malthouse

The revolving door at MHCLG* looks set to keep right on spinning, as not just one, but three, former Planning Ministers have thrown their...

03/06/19
Joanne Moseley

A key employee has been selected for jury service - can you say no?

Our FAQs answer this and other questions you may have about jury service. Do employees have a legal right to take time off work to sit on...

31/05/19
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and parliamentary scrutiny of UK replacement treaties

On 24th May 2019, the House of Commons library published a useful 92-page Briefing Paper on the process of replacing EU treaties ( to...

30/05/19
Joanne Moseley

Employee awarded over £16k for injury to their feelings after 'one off' act of discrimination

In the case of Base Childrenswear Ltd v Otshudi, the EAT made it clear that employers can face substantial 'injury to feelings' awards,...

30/05/19
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and its impact on Accounting and Corporate Reporting and the appointment of Auditors - Further Guidance

In February 2019,  we reported on two letters of guidance issued jointly by BEIS ( the UK Department of Business, Energy and Industrial...

29/05/19
Joanne Moseley

Court of Appeal: employers can enhance maternity pay without increasing shared parental pay

The Court of Appeal has handed down its judgment in the cases of Ali v Capita and Hextall v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police. It...

29/05/19
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and the future of London

In the words of the old Flanagan & Allen song :- "... Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner     That I love London town...." For those of us...

24/05/19
Nicola Gooch

Can Soft Play save our High Streets? Permitted development and the changing face of retail

It seems that you can barely go a week without reading a headline about the parlous state of our high streets. Stories like the recent...

24/05/19
Joanne Moseley

What would you do if an employee tweeted *that* royal baby picture?

Social media is part of our culture.  We spend far too long glued to our phones, checking out who said what to whom and, sometimes,...

23/05/19
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and the future of financial regulation in the UK

On 16th May 2019 , the Bank of England published a speech given by Sam Woods (Deputy Governor for Prudential Regulation at the Bank of...

17/05/19