Wrotham Park revisited: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has ruled in Morris-Garner v One Step [2018] UKSC 20 (a claim concerning breach of restrictive covenants in a sale agreement) that Wrotham Park damages could not be claimed on the...
View ArticleThe spectre of Trade War looms large for aerospace manufacturers
Tit-for-tat tariffs announced by the US and China have sparked fears of a damaging trade war between the worlds two largest economies. Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the IMF, warned last...
View ArticleState Aid Rules to be enforced by the CMA Post-Brexit
The Government has given its strongest indication yet that a domestic State aid regulatory regime, substantively similar to the EU State aid regime which applies today, will be in place at the end of...
View ArticleThe FCAs Technology Agenda for 2018/19: Business as Usual as the FCA looks...
The Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulatory Authority have both recently released their business plans for the year ahead. Interestingly, both plans mention the importance of...
View ArticleEversheds Sutherland's corporate claims bulletin - March 2018
Hannah Pook v Rossall School (2018) QBD Facts The claimant was a student at the defendant’s school. On 14 January 2011 she was taking part in a PE lesson, in which the students were going to play...
View ArticleEducation e-briefing - Student Accommodation
Welcome to the fourth in our series of Student Accommodation e-briefs for universities, colleges and private providers. These e-briefs highlight aspects of the student accommodation contract which...
View ArticleBurgess and others v BIC UK Limited Retrospective changes and time limits...
Summary On 17 April 2018, the High Court judgment in Burgess ...
View ArticleGerman insurance comparison website Check24 fined for failure to disclose it...
The Munich District Court has ordered German comparison website operator Check24 to pay a fine for not having implemented the ruling of the Munich Higher Regional Court on how to inform its users of...
View ArticleProtection of Residential Addresses in the UK
Research shows that company directors are the victims of one in five current recorded cases of identity fraud. This is in part due to the fact that more of their information is easily available to the...
View ArticleEducation e-briefing: Academies Briefing Spring 2018
In this issue:• Senior pay – further scrutiny ahead• Forthcoming changes to the automatic charity trustee disqualification rules• Changes to the tax treatment of termination payments from 6 April...
View ArticleOperational options occasionally open to employers
The recent case of National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and Aveng Trident Steel (Aveng) has finally (at least for now) settled the debate regarding automatically unfair dismissals in...
View ArticleOnline civil claims pilot now public across England and Wales
Individuals and businesses wishing to start an action in the County Court small claims track to claim money owed up to £10,000 can now do so online via a new public platform. The new service allows...
View ArticleChallenging FOS decisions
Can FOS adjudicate complaints where regulated and unregulated activities are entwined? In the recent case of R (on the application of Tenetconnect Services Limited) v Financial Ombudsman Service...
View ArticleTechnology at law firms: the revolution is yet to come
There has been a lot of talk recently about the use of IT in delivering legal services. The topic has drawn attention mainly due to the growth of AI tools, fueling media speculations about the...
View ArticleUK HR E-briefing - New whistleblowing protection on the horizon for the EU
“Whistleblowing”, the colloquial term given to the act of speaking out and disclosing serious wrongdoing by an employer, has attracted high-profile media attention and legal review in recent years. It...
View ArticleRestricted Certificate of Sponsorship Allocations
The Certificate of Sponsorship (“CoS”) year restarted on 6th April 2018. 2,200 restricted CoSes were available in April’s allocation. It was announced by UKVI last week that the minimum points...
View ArticleBrexit: Could the Hostile Environment affect EEA workers?
The recent controversy regarding the immigration status of the “Windrush Generation” has brought the issue of immigration record-keeping into sharp focus. Could citizens of EEA countries face similar...
View ArticleEducation e-briefing - Restricted Certificate of Sponsorship Allocations
The Certificate of Sponsorship (“CoS”) year restarted on 6th April 2018. 2,200 restricted CoSes were available in April’s allocation. It was announced by UKVI last week that the minimum points...
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