Legal Insights

If parents cannot agree over arrangements for their children, it is sometimes necessary to ask the Court to assist. 

This usually then...

A little bit of summer fun - thanks to Nisus Consulting.  How many of the ten law firm firms pictured can you identify? 

Whilst the names...

A reminder to treat unsolicited calls with extreme caution and not to engage or give personal details including  payment information to...

Every few years, I come back to this great video.  The premise is how to truly start a movement in your organization - how to take a...

Until now, there has been little sign that the Senior Manager & Certification Regime - so far applied only to deposit takers and insurers...

In a recent case out of Ontario, an employer intentionally delayed submitting an employee's Record of Employment after terminating her...

While some of the changes to the Code passed as part of the Fair and Family Friendly Workplaces Act came into effect on the...

As new principles come into force for calculating pension losses, our trainee solicitor, Kashif, explains the employment law implications.

On 10 August, Filecoin launched the latest of many 'initial coin offerings' or 'ICOs' (see Freshfields Digital's "$35 million in 30...

Below is a link to an Article I wrote for the IPM Member's Quarterly in the Spring of 2015, which contains a handy summary of the basics,...

The Wisconsin based tech company Three Square Market made headlines a few weeks ago when they became the first company in the US to...

The UK Government has just published a ‘future partnership paper’. It covers the exchange and protection of personal data, following the...

What you put on social media and in emails lives in posterity! 

T. S. Eliot could not have imagined how relevant these lines would be for financial services boards looking to understand and, where...

The importance of knowing when it’s appropriate to suspend an employee has popped into the spot light again, in the High Court case of...

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has today issued guidance on how to avoid causing offence. This is in response to an increase in...

FC Barcelona has submitted documentation to the Spanish Football Association in an attempt to initiate proceedings against the club's...

No more hiding behind backdated letters! With technology advancing, it's all too easy to prove when something was created. 

Not a pretty picture or thought but it raises the very serious question of where the line is drawn on employer discipline or termination...

A hetero-sexual couple have been granted the right to appeal to the Supreme Court regarding their wish to enter into a civil partnership. 

The case summary is in the quote below, but broadly this is a good reminder to employers about the perils of suspension. 

Often it is a...

An interesting perspective from a group of economists here that see Brexit as a golden opportunity for UK Financial Services. 

The jury is...

A High Court case from earlier this week issued some clear guidance on suspending employees suspected of wrongdoing. Agoreyo v London...

On Monday 14 August, the Government launched a public consultation and wage survey in a bid to tackle the gender pay gap in Ireland. It...

A fun article in the press about sexbots roused my otherwise monosyllabic teenage sons into an unusually animated debate. An ethical...

Our Employment law Senior Associate, Mary Goldsbrough, looks at what can happen if a company fails to pay its employees national minimum...

For employers concerned about the implications of increased medical marijuana use and impending legalization on workplace safety, here is...

From 1 October 2017, the Home Office intend to withdraw the use of paper landing cards (woo hoo!), instead looking to digitally collect...

As the U.S., Canada, and Mexico look to renegotiate NAFTA, standardizing regulatory standards for fintech has become an item on the agenda.

How many more firms are like this that we don't know about?

There is a growing clamour amongst lawyers and campaigners for reform of the UK's rules on surrogacy arrangements. 

As the law stands, the...

Following the far-right and anti-fascist protests in the US this week, Angharad Aspinall, our employment lawyer comments for Lawyer...

I previously relayed Gideon's success at tackling a fraudster to secure his money back. Luckily he was 'in the know' to utilise the Court...

Our Employment Associate, Sarah Austin, has been featured in Lawyer Monthly's piece on this month's most high-profile diversity casualty. 

There are a number of facts upon which a divorce petition can be issued, however currently there is no non-fault based fact upon which...

Today the FCA announced a deadline for PPI complaints of 29 August 2019, together with a campaign, paid for by the firms, to make sure...

I grant you that it may seem a little early to be thinking about Christmas(!), however we're now undoubtedly getting to the point in time...

Interesting observation and food for thought. However, this approach must be carefully weighed against an employer's interest in securing...

I've previously written about LinkedIn's web scraping battle in the United States.

The implications are far reaching for many companies,...

Artificial Intelligence is day by day trumping itself, from producing classical works of art, to diagnosing cancers. Today, it's still...

Capital Law has been accredited as a living wage employer by the Living Wage Foundation and Cynnal Cymru – Sustain Wales.

From 1 April...

No, said the EAT in dismissing the appeal in Charlesworth v Dransfields Engineering Services Ltd (DES).

Mr Charlesworth was the Branch...

No, said the Advocate General of the CJEU in King v The Sash Window Workshop (TSSW).

Mr King had been paid entirely on commission. His...

No, said the ET in Ali v Capita Customer Management Ltd.

Mr Ali worked for Capita, having transferred to Capita from Telefonica under TUPE...

No, said the EAT in JP Morgan v Ktorza.

Mr Ktorza worked on JP Morgan Securities’ foreign exchange desk. He was dismissed for short...

No, said the High Court in MPT Group Ltd v Peel & others.

MPT is a leading producer and supplier of mattress machinery and equipment. It...

In this month's newsbytes, our employment law team look at a range of high-profile cases, from whether fathers can be paid less than...

In brief: Why was trading suspended?

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has temporarily suspended the trading of shares in...

A new Divorce Petition has been introduced in order to commence divorce proceedings. 

The BBC have published an article stating that the...

This is not something new, and something all firms need to take note of. The consumer will shop smarter now, and are different to the...

In a move consistent with the broad deregulatory agenda of the Trump administration the DOL has filed to delay the date for implementing...

Financial, legal and technology are just some of the many sectors paying attention to GDPR - coming into effect in May 2018. However,...

One to watch over the next 12 months, doubling monthly turnover to around £30,000. Social Media being a key driving factor.

What threatens to kill off the salesman for good, is a change in European regulation due to arrive in little more than 150 days’ time:...

Partner, Pete Singfield, writes for Money Marketing on departing employees and how to protect your business.

As one descends inexorably...

If you are interested in the UK Government’s recent BREXIT Proposal on EEA nationals, check out our blog below. The proposal effectively...

A recurring question in regulation is to what extent a financial services’ regulator should hold itself to the same standards it expects...

The Government has commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to advise on the economic and social impacts of the UK’s exit from...

Recent media reports suggest that the Basel Committee has pushed back its meeting to finalise the Basel III regulatory package, citing...

As part of the recent outpouring of legislation and guidance from the UK government relating to cyber security, the Centre for the...

A recurring question in regulation is to what extent a financial services’ regulator should hold itself to the same standards it expects...

This article brought a smile to my face. This does show how 'being in the know' and acting fast can turn the tables on a fraudster. For...

Could your working hours be more flexible? Our Employment law solicitor, Alex Christen, is featured in Grazia UK weighing in on requests...

Our Employment law Associate, Esyllt Green, is featured in People Management today talking employment law hot spots that might crop up...

Sports direct issued a note titled “Store Language Policy” which included the line, “We would like to take this opportunity to remind...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) presents significant challenges for banks – by next May, they need to know exactly what...

The Issue

Discrimination against women who take maternity leave is a well-known issue. But with the introduction of shared parental leave...

The Case

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Willetts and ors

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) upheld a tribunal's decision that...

If both parents can agree to a name change, changing a child's name is relatively straight forward. 

If both parents have parental...

On divorce, one contentious issue is sorting out child maintenance, ie how much should the parent with whom the child does not live with...

Gyda Sports Direct o dan y lach, rhanna Iestyn Morris ei farn gyfreithiol ar wahardd ieithoedd heblaw’r Saesneg yn y gweithle.

Byth ymhell...

A new week brings a new high-profile casualty in terms of diversity in the workplace – this time Google. Our Employment law Associate,

As the Federation of Small Businesses report today that the rise to the National Living Wage may need to be delayed, Employment solicitor

As Sports Direct comes into the media spotlight once again, this time for allegedly banning employees from speaking to each other in any...

Our Employment law Associate, Esyllt Green, is featured in Wales Online recent article about tattoos in the work place. Do they affect...

Less than one third of British workers have lunch away from their desks. With 45% of lost working days being attributed to work-related...

Blockchain project Tezos raised $232 million-worth of bitcoin and ether in mid-July 2017, breaking the record for crowdfunding through an...

Mae ein arbenigwr cyfraith cyflogaeth, Esyllt Green, yn rhannu ei sylwadau gyda BBC Cymru Fyw ar ddyfarniad diweddar y Goruchaf Lys bod...

A recent EAT decision has provided further confirmation that when voluntary overtime is made with sufficient regularity it will be...

A Judge has personally written to a child embroiled in a High Court battle over whether he should be allowed to move to Scandinavia with...

For anyone interested in applying for a “family of a settled person” visa, you should check out our blog (link below) on upcoming changes...

A recent study by the Institute for Social and Economic Research has concluded that unpaid internships can hinder a person’s earning...

This latest study will inevitably put pressure on the Australian government to review the possibility of introducing same-sex marriage. ...

The gender pay gap remains a stubborn problem and one that can be mysterious to understand, detangle and then set about solving.

This is...

The Grant Thornton Insolvency team leads the market in Who's Who Legal for asset tracing with our UK team receiving 9 listings as thought...

The Facebook story of the technology writing its own language is a very interesting one! And perhaps a warning to us. Artificial...

The big news in employment law last week was the removal of Employment Tribunal fees for employees wishing to bring a claim against their...