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Southwark Crown Court recently handed down the first sentence in relation to a corporate conviction under section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010 which deals with 'Failure of commercial organisations to prevent bribery'.

In the context of an application to strike out or summarily dismiss a claim for fraudulent misrepresentation

The Supreme Court has upheld the first successful claim for breach of the so-called Quincecare duty of care, which requires a financial institution to refrain from executing a customer's payment

A landmark criminal case involving the first prosecution under section 4B of the Public Order Act 1986 for sex-based harassment, where strategic legal representation and the discovery of undiagnosed autism played crucial roles in securing a non-custodial sentence. The case demonstrates how thorough client assessment and expert psychiatric evaluation can significantly impact sentencing outcomes in high-profile prosecutions.

A woman of previous good character faced imprisonment after causing serious injury through dangerous driving on a dual carriageway, with no memory of the collision itself. Despite the severity of the injuries caused and the risk of a custodial sentence, comprehensive mitigation evidence—including her remorse, exemplary driving record, personal injuries sustained, and participation in a clinical trial to help other collision victims—persuaded the judge to impose a community order instead.

The Supreme Court today held the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause applies to the states. A wide variety of groups from the American Civil Liberties Union to the Chamber of Commerce of the United States supported the result.

On 29 November 2017, the CJEU handed down their Judgment in the case of Mr C. King v The Sash Window Workshop Ltd & Richard Dollar (Case C‑214/16) following a request for a preliminary ruling ...

The ACAS early conciliation process can (and often does) mean that the time in which an individual must present an employment tribunal claim is extended by a month after the date of the early conciliation certificate.

ACAS have released new guidance on employment references this month.

A two-for-the-price-of-one judgment from the Court of Appeal in O'Brien v Ministry of Justice and Innospec v Walker has confirmed that current UK restrictions on backdating benefit entitlements do not breach EU law.

On 20 June 2005 the Department of Health issued a consultation paper (Consultation on the Smokefree Elements of the Health Improvement and Protection Bill) which proposes legislation to make most enclosed public places and work places smoke-free. This consultation closes on 5 September.

In Dodic v. Banka Koper and Alta Invest (Case c-194/18) EU:C:2019:385, the ECJ was asked to consider whether the transfer of intangible client investments from one undertaking

The ECJ's recent decision in the case of USDAW v WW Realisation on the scope of "establishment" for collective redundancy consultation purposes will be welcomed by employers.

The courts have blown hot and cold about how far it is possible to sever a covenant that goes beyond what is reasonably necessary in order to make it enforceable.

The claimants in the long-running equal pay saga against supermarket household name Asda secured another positive step forward with the Court of Appeal (CoA) finding last week

In this blog I look at some of the significant cases that will affect UK and European employment law in 2016.

In a further twist in 2022, the Supreme Court held, in Harpur Trust v Brazel, that the holiday entitlement of a worker on a permanent contract who works for fewer than 52 weeks...

The tribunal concluded that both claimants satisfied the definition of disability and, in doing so, referred to evidence covering the period after August 2018.