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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
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
Claire Petricca-Riding

Environmental news round up - 4 August 2023

Climate Change Litigation On the Increase According to the “Global Climate Litigation Report 2023” recently published by the United...

04/08/23
Irwin Mitchell

Use Class E - still the future of the High Street?

Happy Tuesday (yes I know it's not Tuesday any longer) but it's here (and it landed on Tuesday morning) - the much awaited case of the...

20/11/20
Nicola Gooch

Your Housing is Out for Delivery: Covid 19, Five Year Housing Land Supply and Deliverability

The implications of Covid-19 and lockdown have pre-occupied most of us over the last few months; but whilst developers have been focused...

19/06/20
Joanne Moseley

Five employment cases that have affected the education sector in 2019

As December looms we look back on the cases that have significantly impacted on the education sector over the last 12 months. Holiday pay...

25/11/19
Nicola Gooch

The CMA Report into Housebuilding is out! and some other stuff.....

I hadn't even finished my first coffee of the day, when news of the publication of the CMA report into the housebuilding industry popped...

26/02/24
Nicola Gooch

Budget 2017: Disappointing CIL Reforms & Other 'News'

It is probably a good thing that I have not been waiting on today's CIL announcement with bated breath.  For one thing, the Government's...

22/11/17
Joanne Moseley

Is your employee sick or skiving?

New statistics released today by the ELAS Group identify the dates in the first half of the year with the highest absence rates.  Mondays...

13/07/17
Joanne Moseley

Profanity and prejudice: using gendered derogatory language towards a trans woman can amount to direct discrimination

In Fischer v London United Busways Limited, a tribunal had to decide if a trans woman who said she had been called a swear word typically...

30/10/23
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
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
Joanne Moseley

Pensions and furloughing - key issues for employers

Pensions expert, Penny Cogher takes a look at the issues employers need to be aware of when making pension contributions to furloughed...

08/04/20
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
Joanne Moseley

European court tells employers to properly measure the length of time their staff are working

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has today handed down an important judgment about working time in the case of CCOO v...

14/05/19
Joanne Moseley

When should you involve occupational health?

The decision of the Employment Appeals Tribunal in the case of  Lamb v The Garrard Academy reminds organisations that if they don't refer...

31/01/19
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
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
Nicola Gooch

T'was the last working day before Christmas: A Festive Case-Law (and CIL) round-up

It is my last working day before Christmas, and the emails are blessedly quiet, so what better way to celebrate the imminent festivities...

24/12/24
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
David Shirt

ESG & Real Estate - now firmly on the agenda

By Paul Henson is a Partner and Head of the London Real Estate Disputes Team at Irwin Mitchell. Environmental, Social and Governance...

26/02/21
Anna Tranter

(Planning) Permission to Party? Planning Implications of the Battle for Brockwell Park

Summer festival season has arrived in London, with tens of thousands of people flocking to Brockwell Park in South London over the last...

03/06/25
Irwin Mitchell

A red mist descends on the Housing horizon.

It was pointed out in a recent Linkedin exchange that the first Minister to concede that we are in a full blown housing crisis was Nick...

06/09/19
Nicola Gooch

National Planning Guidance on Small Sites exemption is officially re-instated

DCLG has now reinstated the Planning Practice Guidance that gives effect to the Small Sites exemption; which was declared lawful by the...

20/05/16
Nicola Gooch

Planning in Court: Class E, NHS Service Funding & Enforcement Notices in the Judicial spotlight

With Parliament taking a well-earned summer break, I thought it might be a good moment to soujourn to the relative calm of the Royal...

10/08/23
Keith Davidson

The impact of mandatory ESG reporting on engineering businesses

The introduction of mandatory ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reporting is set to have significant implications for...

27/03/24
Nicola Gooch

Manifesto Watch: How the Parties Compare on Green Belt, PD Rights and Housing Delivery

Election Season is now firmly underway, with Manifesto releases from Labour, the Lib Dems and the Green Party this week.... and some...

21/11/19
Mandeep Khroud

New Immigration measures revealed: what's changing and how will it impact the UK

The new Home Secretary, James Cleverly, earlier this week announced a package of extensive measures set to reduce net migration in the UK...

05/12/23
Nicola Gooch

The road to permitted development is paved with good intentions... High Court tells Hounslow that what they meant to do, matters a whole lot less than what they actually did

Last week, the Administrative Court had the thankless task of informing the London Borough of Hounslow that an Article 4 Direction, which...

08/11/18