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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
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
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

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

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

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

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
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
Nicola Gooch

Election 2017 - Manifesto Week: Conservatives on Planning

The Conservatives have been in government for the last two years. During that time they have introduced two major pieces of planning...

18/05/17
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
Claire Petricca-Riding

Environmental Weekly News Round Up - 13 October 2023

Over the last few weeks, we've seen both Labour and the Conservatives hold their annual conferences.  With the Conservative government...

13/10/23
Joanne Moseley

Flexible working requests: failure to consider impact of menopause discriminated against female employee

In Johnson v Bronzeshield Lifting Ltd, a tribunal had to decide whether an employer had discriminated against a long-standing employee by...

29/04/24
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
Nicola Gooch

Election Watch: What the Conservative Manifesto says about Planning

Hot on the heels of the Liberal Democrats, whose manifesto launched yesterday, it is the Conservative Manifesto's turn to be put under...

11/06/24
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
Joanne Moseley

Three reasons why you need a strategy to protect your staff against verbal abuse by customers

Earlier this week, USDAW (the union of shop, distributive and allied workers) published its annual survey as part of its campaign to end...

12/03/21
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
Claire Petricca-Riding

Weekly environmental update - 12 July

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Environment Law news update. As ever, we bring you developments, insights, and analysis in...

12/07/24
Joanne Moseley

Coronavirus: eight tips to support staff working from home

Since the lock down, anyone who could work from home has been expected to do so. Many of us are now into our fourth or fifth week of...

21/04/20
Elizabeth Thomson

What you need to know about the National Disability Strategy

The government has set out its strategy to transform the lives of people with disabilities, but will anything change? Joanne Moseley and...

11/10/21
Claire Petricca-Riding

Environmental news update - 11 Oct

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Environment Law news update. As ever, we bring you developments, insights, and analysis in...

11/10/24
Elizabeth Thomson

Enforcement covenants, a breach too far

By Vanessa Horn, Practice Development Lawyer In May 2020 the Supreme Court gave its judgment in Duval v 11-13 Randolph Crescent Ltd. It...

30/06/20
Nicola Gooch

Infrastructure Levy under the spotlight: nobody expects the Planning Inquisition

There has been a lot of discussion about the new ‘Infrastructure Levy’ since the Levelling Up & Regeneration Bill was published. In this...

28/06/22
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
Claire Petricca-Riding

Environment weekly news round up - 7 June

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Environment Law news update. As ever, we bring you developments, insights, and analysis in...

07/06/24
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
Joanne Moseley

Rape crisis centre deliberately harassed and unfairly dismissed counsellor who voiced gender critical beliefs

In Adams v Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, a tribunal had to decide if an employee was discriminated by her employer because she didn't...

29/05/24
Nicola Gooch

A Hectic Week in Planning Land: Boats, New Towns, Call In Decisions & Stand-up Comedy

On Friday night, I attended Matt Forde's End of an Era Tour.  Tunbridge Wells is a bit of a comedy hotspot, so I have seen quite a lot of...

11/11/24
Joanne Moseley

Can you fairly dismiss a teacher suspected of downloading illegal images of children?

You'd think the answer to this is a definitive 'yes'. However, the Scottish EAT's decision in K v L reveals how difficult it is for...

05/10/20