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BCL associate Umar Azmeh's Case Comment on R v Field (Benjamin Luke) [2021] EWCA Crim. 380 has been published in the latest edition of the Criminal Law Review.

BCL associate Umar Azmeh's case comment on R v Jex and others [2021] EWCA Crim. 1708 has been published in the latest edition of the Criminal Law Review.

BCL associate Umar Azmeh's case comment on R v T [2022] EWCA Crim. 108 has been published in the latest edition of the Criminal Law Review.

Post-termination non-compete clauses will only be upheld by the courts if they are reasonable in length and scope and do not go further than is necessary to protect an employer's legitimate business interests.

The Supreme Court has agreed with the Court of Appeal and held that the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) was incorrect to conclude that there is no initial burden of proof on a claimant in a ...

Mr Carreras habitually worked long hours as an analyst for United First Partners Research, a brokerage firm.

Yes, according to the decision in Dewhurst v Revisecatch & City Sprint. Employment Judge Joffe, sitting alone in the London Central Employment Tribunal,...

An employee on a temporary zero hours contract should be classed as an agency worker, the Employment Appeal Tribunal found in Brooknight Guarding Limited v. Matei.

When shared parental leave was introduced in 2015, a key issue for some employers was whether paying enhanced maternity pay but only statutory shared parental pay put them at risk

The difficulties in succeeding in a direct disability discrimination claim are illustrated by the Court of Appeal decision in Owen v Amec Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd.

This decision does not mean that each individual location will always be a separate establishment.

BEIS notes that the position is different where workers are expected to perform activities for all or most of a shift, and are only permitted to sleep between tasks where possible.

The Government is currently consulting on a proposal to change the way holiday entitlement works for permanently retained part year and irregular hour workers.

The Court of Appeal's decision in the case of North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust v. Gregg [2019] EWCA Civ 387 brings some welcome reassurance to employers ...

This case concerned the collapse of the national high street retailers Woolworths and Ethel Austin, which resulted in large-scale redundancies and store closures.

The Court of Appeal has ruled this week on the issue of whether men on shared parental leave should be paid the same as women on maternity leave. Their answer is a resounding no.

Mr Page was initially reprimanded for expressing his views on same-sex adoption during the course of an adoption application hearing.