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On Tuesday this week (26th June), the Electoral Commission published a report calling for urgent action to be taken by the governments...

Co-working and serviced offices spaces are not a new phenomenon. The concept has been knocking around for years and is an especially...

Last year Byfield partnered up with Legal Business magazine to investigate law firms’ approach to building, preserving, and defending...

After an eight month investigation, the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has announced that it is launching enforcement action...

The ASA upheld a complaint from a frustrated parent who challenged whether the Transformers Rescue Bots featured in a Hasbro advert were...

The Advertising Association, Nabs and Wacl, backed by the IPA and ISBA, have called #timesup on sexual harassment in the UK advertising...

Today's decision in the Supreme Court only serves to underline the calls to modernise the outdated family laws that exist in this country...

Gender pay gap reporting provides some transparency; what constitutes real change and how can companies take steps to put in place...

The debate over the billable hour is one of the most exhausted conversations in the legal industry. The legal industry’s adoption of...

I was recently involved in an employment case, which involved the issues arising out of a man changing to a woman and in particular the...

A recent Instagram post by influencer Aliyah Maria Bee (@aliyahmariabee) has landed her and Coco Shine in a bit of bother.  

She...

In recent months I have attended some really interesting events on the topic of funding for scaling companies in Ireland.

The message that...

I woke this morning to read about the welcomed approval by the Cabinet of the Gender Pay Gap Information Bill. 

Under this new Bill,...

Following a legal challenge by a mixed-sex couple, the Supreme Court have ruled that the current law, which reserves civil partnerships...

Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan have today won their court battle over civil partnerships for opposite sex couples. 

Civil...

Horizon scanning is one of those things that, for a mix of reasons – temperament, capability, resources etc – can mean something...

Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, has announced plans for a new entrepreneur style visa known as a ‘start-up’ visa to be introduced from...

For the rest of the week across the UK we can pretty much expect to continue to bask in soaring temperatures and glorious blue skies....

Retaining and progressing talented women needs to be a critical part of any agency's strategy.  If used well, flexible working can...

It will come as no surprise to any of us that house prices and the cost of rent in Dublin has been spiraling upwards in spectacular...

In January 2018, we co-hosted an event which aimed to help partners show their people that they matter in a practical manner.

Following on...

It is clear from reading this article that Ireland still has a long way to go before becoming a gender neutral society. 

As we all...

In its press release linked below, The City UK Points out potential impact of Brexit on financial stability and personal finances of...

Today, we were delighted to welcome Chuka Umunna, Member of Parliament for Streatham, as the guest speaker at our private lunch at The...

Japan’s employee work-life balance has once again been called into question, after a 64-year-old employee of Kobe’s Water Bureau was...

It is difficult to imagine two businesses with two less closely related activities than the sale of potted plants and the provision of...

Over the past few years, the media buying industry has been disrupted almost as many times (and in almost as many cruel and unusual ways)...

On October 17, 2018, the 95-year old prohibition on cannabis will be lifted.  Over the next 17 weeks, the Provinces and Territories...

Last week the EU Commission launched a High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLG). I understand from my sources at the...

A couple of weeks ago, in the aftermath of the TSB and Visa IT problems, I wrote about the increasing importance regulators are attaching...

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises...

Last week the Supreme Court declared that a "self employed" plumber was in reality a worker, and entitled to basic employment rights....

Jonathan Klahr's words of intent will be welcomed with open arms by Ireland's tech companies. The managing director of US investment firm...

Last week, the BBC released research that the wording of job adverts can put women off applying. Here, Alex Christen, our gender pay...

The recently reported Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) case of DL Insurance Services Ltd v O'Connor, reminds us that managing poor...

This article busts some of the most widely talked about myths when getting divorced. 

This includes the age old myth of being able to...

With all the press and publicity surrounding high profile divorce cases together with television programmes broadcasting highly contested...

Manchester headquartered DWF LLP is tipped to be listed on the London Stock Exchange within the year, in what is described as the largest...

On 10 June 2018 the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) launched a review of serious and organised crime in the...

So, based on Sigma Rating's model, who wins the FIFA World Cup Trophy? Well.. Not the host country (who were only surpassed by Iran) and...

Most of today’s fashionistas would be familiar with a certain pair of high heeled shoes bearing a red outer sole and would likely be able...

In light of GDPR, you will have seen this position crop up more and more in recent times; The all powerful, all important Data Protection...

News today that the Union's application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada on its challenge of Suncor's random drug...

Few aspects of the world of work have received more attention in recent times than the so-called gig economy, in which bicycle couriers,...

 If, like our Employment team, you’ve been following the case of Mr Gary Smith v Pimlico Plumbers, you’ll no doubt have seen that on...

I am not sure the Supreme Court Pimlico Judgment takes the law much further, although it remains to be seen how Tribunals read it. But it...

Proprietary estoppel claims continue to be reported and the running theme is that they mainly relate to farming families.  In the...

In an important Supreme Court ruling (the Cartier v BT case), the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that ISPs should NOT be responsible for...

In the case of Scicluna v Zippy the Court of Appeal reaffirmed the principle that generally, where there is an agreed List of Issues...

The recent announcement that Amazon is entering the Asian Insurance market via its partnership with Acko General Insurance highlights two...

The Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance ("GALA") has released the second edition of Social Media: A Global Legal Perspective. The book...

I have always been an admirer of the vibrant beautiful designs of Kate Spade's bags and accessories. I was sad to see the headline...

Every year, the summer associate program has existed hand-in-hand with alcohol. Go to a West-End show, grab a drink on the firm's dime....

Yesterday Forbes published its list of the top 100 highest paid athletes across the world. Here's our Gender Pay Gap expert,...

In the autumn of 2017, Diageo ran a series of promotional tweets for its Captain Morgan rum brand, aimed at new students. The ASA...

By several measures, the recent systems problems, outages and IT crashes are the latest episodes in a new normal, one that challenges...

A great result for international cooperation and HMRC's persistence. 

The cranes continue to spring up but is the Dublin office market a "no-brainer" investment at the moment?  The onward march of the...

To many newly qualified lawyers, being a partner is what they dream about; the pay, the power, the prestige. Many want to be like Harvey...

A Canadian MP has put forward legislation to decriminalise paying women to act as surrogates. The move is partly in response to the owner...

Visa’s problems on Friday need a little time to digest, and for the full picture to start to emerge; similarly, the FCA’s two substantial...