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Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and trading under WTO rules

The UK Government "Transition Period" website is generating useful information on the post- Brexit  cross-border trading environment for...

05/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and differing approaches to free trade negotiations

The 3 February 2020  saw the UK and EU setting out their different stalls for the free trade negotiations, which are due to take place...

04/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

A Fishy tale...

By Rob Coleridge and Natalie Francis One of the fun things in writing about consumer related issues is the opportunity for puns. In that...

04/02/20
Joanne Moseley

Is your employee sick or skiving?

Today is #nationalsickie day and a good opportunity to re-run the most popular article I've ever written. How do you tell if your...

03/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and UK company law

With the UK's exit from the EU on 31 January 2020 and the immediate commencement thereafter of the transition period which is to last...

03/02/20
Joanne Moseley

Post Brexit UK immigration - what's changed?

The UK left the EU last week. Our immigration expert Ben Xu explains what that means for employers wishing to recruit or retain EU...

03/02/20
Nicola Gooch

It's the end of the world as we know it: So what's next?

I am writing this post* on the UK's first day outside of the European Union for 45 years.** It is also, co-incidentally, the first time...

01/02/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and changing times

On this momentous day, the 31st day of January 2020, as the UK prepares to depart the European Union at 11pm (UK time), it may be...

31/01/20
Joanne Moseley

Will workers’ rights change after Brexit?

The UK leaves the EU at 11pm tonight - January 31 2020. Despite the ‘get Brexit done’ message, there will be no immediate changes to our...

31/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Disclosure Pilot Scheme: where are we now?

In January 2019 we saw the introduction of the two-year Disclosure Pilot Scheme in the Business and Property Courts. What is the...

30/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Extending the Fixed Recoverable Costs Regime

The Ministry of Justice is consulting on measures to extend the Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) regime to incorporate an expanded fast...

30/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Is there an obligation of good faith in commercial contracts?

On 8 January 2020, the High Court confirmed in Wales v CBRE Managed Services Limited and Aviva Administration Limited that a duty of good...

30/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit: what's next?

Following the Conservative Party winning December’s general election by a significant majority, the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement)...

30/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit, the Digital Copyright Directive and Creeping Divergence

One of the more controversial pieces of EU legislation recently is the so-called Digital Copyright Directive of 17 April 2019 (EU...

30/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit, rights of access to EU trade deals and the importance of an asterisk

Article 129 (1) of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement essentially confirms that during the transition period extending from 11pm (UK time) on...

30/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and UK trade policy for the food and drink industry

On 27 January 2020 , three prestigious UK  food and drink sector Defra-sponsored representative  groupings - the Food and Drink...

28/01/20
Joanne Moseley

New report suggests tougher penalties needed to deter employers from underpaying staff

Research published by the Resolution Foundation indicates that there has been an increase in the number of businesses underpaying the...

28/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and Green Finance

"Green Finance" is very much in the news at the moment following the UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid in December 2019 and...

27/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

What’s new Birmingham?

This weekend I woke up to a Passle reminder that I haven’t posted anything recently. I haven't met my target!!  Welcome to 2020 - an...

27/01/20
Joanne Moseley

New right for parents to take paid time off to grieve death of a child

From 6 April 2020, parents will be able to take up to two weeks bereavement leave to help them cope with the death of a child.  To avoid...

27/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020

The news that the  European Union ( Withdrawal Agreement ) Act 2020 had received Royal Assent and passed into UK law on 23rd January 2020...

24/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and issues of regulatory alignment and / or equivalence

The battle-lines are being drawn up for the up coming negotiations between the UK and the EU on a free trade agreement, which would take...

24/01/20
Joanne Moseley

Do you really need to suspend an employee?

The Court of Appeal in H v Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has set out some useful tips for employers...

23/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and the Sewel Convention

The Sewel Convention holds that the UK Parliament will not normally legislate on matters within the competencies of the devolved...

22/01/20
Nicola Gooch

The value of your charging schedule can go down as well as up: CIL Rates may fall in 2020 due to new index

One of the geekier amendments to the Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations introduced in 2019 was an amendment to the indexation...

20/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit, Flybe and unlawful state aid

It is perhaps one of life's little ironies that just when one had thought that Brexit was almost "done", at least one aspect of EU law...

17/01/20
Elizabeth Thomson

Costs Analysis: The validity of a Part 36 offer which purports to exclude interest

Lauren Dunnill, a trainee solicitor in the Real Estate Disputes team, examines a recent case. The recent Court of Appeal judgment in Mr...

17/01/20
Joanne Moseley

New statutory rates that will apply from April 2020

The government has recently announced that rates for statutory maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave pay and maternity...

17/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit, the digital economy and data protection

In an interesting Article for The Times on 15 January 2020, its Banking Editor, Katherine Griffiths, analysed some of the implications...

16/01/20
Irwin Mitchell

Brexit and the negotiating position of the EU Commission "Brexit" Taskforce on a Free Trade Agreement with the UK

Unless and until Brexit is actually "done" by 31st January 2020, it is perhaps yet not entirely safe to assume that all will go smoothly...

15/01/20