Refine Search

Opportunities abound but beware of the pitfalls

Welcome to the second in our new series of short podcasts from the Employment team.

We spoke with Stephen Carr, Group Commercial Director of Peel Ports, and discussed how Brexit and COVID-19 could reshape the "distribution map" of the UK and increase UK manufacturing activity. We also examined the opportunities and challenges of the UK Government's freeports proposal.

In a follow-up to October's Off-Payroll "refresher", our latest webinar focuses on practical steps that employers should take to make the introduction of new rules as painless as possible. 

On 21 October 2020, the ICO published an updated version of its Right of Access guidance ("the Guidance"), which followed a period of consultation earlier this year.

The employment team have advised on a range of employer investigations this year, many of which have been conducted remotely.

In November 2020 the Supreme Court unanimously decided in Alexander Devine Children’s Cancer Trust v Housing Solutions Ltd [2020] UKSC 45 that the housing association who had taken a transfer of housing from a developer, who had knowingly built in breach of a restrictive covenant, was not entitled to secure its release or modification under section 84 of the Law of Property Act 1925. Despite the pressing need for affordable housing, the Court held that the developer should not be rewarded for presenting the Tribunal with a fait accompli.

This briefing was updated in February 2021. 

The end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020 will make a difference to the way that the UK and EU merger control regimes work. Here's what you need to know:

This briefing was updated in February 2021.

What difference does the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020 make to UK and EU competition law? And how likely is it that the UK will increasingly diverge from the EU in its approach to competition law?

Cybersquatting is an issue that our clients increasingly face across a range of sectors and industries.

Welcome to our new series of podcasts from the Employment team.

This three-part series will be looking at dismissals and their processes in relation to misconduct, redundancy and other substantial reasons. We will also be discussing discrimination within the workplace and how employers should respond.

These podcasts will bring you the most significant employment cases from this year, and look at what employers can take away from them.

This series of bitesize videos will be a chance to hear from various members of the Real Estate team on need-to-know updates and topical issues in the sector.

A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry. 

We have partnered with the CBI and UCL to launch this year's London Business Survey, which canvasses views of nearly 200 of the capital's business leaders on topics including Brexit, Covid-19, sustainability, diversity and equality.  

With the end of the Brexit transition period fast approaching, as the UK enters a new era in charge of its own data protection regime, and with the Government's ambitious aspirations for a high tech, data-driven post-Brexit economy, in our recent webinar we looked at:

Mahesh Varia has contributed the United Kingdom Chapter to the ninth edition of The Executive Remuneration Review.

Many contracts require contractual rights to be exercised within a particular timeframe. What if you miss the deadline, but there was some justification for your delay?

Commercial, IP & Technology partners Richard Brown and Louisa Chambers, along with senior associate Rowan Armstrong and employment partner Adam Wyman have written the UK chapter of the Chambers Global Practice Guide to Outsourcing 2020.