Posts from April 2021
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Back to Reality: High Court rules against Virtual Committees
Yesterday, the High Court laid to rest our last hope of virtual committee meetings being able to continue past 7 May 2021, when it handed...
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WFH: Working from Home from Away
Remote working is now the new normal for many employees, and it’s hard to imagine that everyone will want to make a full-time return to...
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Covid-19: summer schools programme now open
Schools in England can now register to offer a summer school to help secondary aged children catch up some of the learning they have lost...
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Part 26A challenge costs: to be determined following Virgin Active sanction
A balancing act Creditors with legitimate grounds to challenge scheme or restructuring plan proposals and who assist the court in so...
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Budget 2021: What’s in it for real estate?
Stuart Tym, Claire Petricca‑Riding and Paul Henson consider the Chancellor’s Budget delivered on 3 March. Energy The March Budget...
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Right to work checks - Covid flexibility due to end on 16 May
This week the government updated its guidance on coronavirus (COVID-19): right to work checks. During the pandemic, organisations could...
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Holidays abroad - employers' questions answered
Earlier this month, the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, said that people can 'start to think about foreign travel' again. He didn't...
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Weddings in a pandemic – where are we now as we come out of coronavirus lockdown ?
By Katherine East, a solicitor at Irwin Mitchell It’s been a year, almost to the day, since Katherine East wrote an article about the...
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Held to ransom by a cyberattack
Dominique Dolman and Lily Pidge from the Commercial Disputes Resolution Team consider the impact of a Cyberattack. Introduction In the...
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My what big teeth you have! High Court invalidates CIL liability notice issued 2 years and 6 months after the grant of planning permission
One of the biggest inadequacies of the CIL Regulations* is that they are entirely silent about the consequences of non-compliance by a...
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Do home workers need a 'right' to disconnect?
Earlier this year, the European Parliament asked the EU Commission to come up with a new EU law which would give employees a right to...
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Mixed messages on planning as the economy starts to re-open
It feels like April 12th has been circled in our diaries for an age. Hairdressers and shops are finally starting to re-open. The long...
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Covid-19: employee who refused to return to work because be believed his workplace posed a 'serious and imminent' danger loses unfair dismissal claim
In Rodgers v Leeds Laser Cutting Limited, the Employment Tribunal had to decide if an employee had been unfairly dismissed after he...
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First Homes?
Back in June 2019 I wrote a star-gazing passle piece trying to take the clues from the revised Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations...
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Another tribunal finds that menopausal symptoms amount to a disability
Some years ago we highlighted the case of Davies v Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service which considered whether menopausal symptoms...
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Keeping it Class E: the Regs are out!
Just before Easter Nicola wrote about a MHCLG Announcement detailing that at a new set of permitted development rights for Class E to...
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COVID-19: employee who refused to wear a mask was fairly dismissed
In Kubilius v Kent Foods, the Employment Tribunal had to decide if a lorry driver was unfairly dismissed for refusing to wear a face...
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Home Office reverses immigration rules on 'foreign suppliers'
A recent change to immigration laws has made it easier for foreign businesses to send EU workers to the UK to fulfil contractual...
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Get rich quick or too good to be true? - giveaway raffles, staying on the right side of gambling provision regulations
By Craig Weston and Alexandra Marchant from Irwin Mitchell's Regulatory Investigation Group Giveaway raffles are becoming more prevalent...
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How has Covid-19 affected the educational prospects of children and young people with SEND?
The all-party parliamentary group for special educational needs and disabilities has published its report on the experiences of young...
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