This morning the Supreme Court gave its decision in the long-running litigation about the legality of employment tribunal fees. The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the government...

It was fair to dismiss an employee to avoid reputational damage when he had been charged with a serious criminal offence even though the charges did not relate to his job...

A Probation Service Officer was not unfairly dismissed after deliberately failing to give her employer full information about Social Services' concerns that she presented a risk to her daughter.

To be protected by the whistleblowing legislation, the worker must have made a "qualifying disclosure". This is any disclosure of information which

The European Court of Justice has held that member states must require employers to set up a system for measuring actual daily working time

Earlier this year, the Prudential Regulatory Authority ("PRA") published a supervisory statement (SS3/19) entitled "Enhancing banks' and insurers' ...

Recent increases in Court Fees have seen them rise to a point at which, for large proportions of the population, the cost of commencing proceedings appears to be unaffordable.

Leaving Brexit aside for a few paragraphs, the data protection topic of the year to date for the financial services industry has been compliance of its use of Artificial Intelligence

On 6 February 2020, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) published their monitoring report on the use of the Mental Health Act 1983 in 2018/19.

DAC Beachcroft's casualty fraud team has secured another Fundamental Dishonesty finding against a claimant who sought to claim damages for personal injury following an alleged accident at work.

The question of whether a limitation defence may defeat a claim for abuse many years ago has been considered by the Court in its recent judgment in Dunn v Durham County Council.

The question of what was said by a Claimant during an appointment with a medical expert can often become a key issue in clinical negligence claims,...

The High Court has granted an interim injunction requiring an employer to permit a solicitor who had been suspended from some of her duties to perform the majority of her normal duties.

User acceptance testing (UAT) is defined by the International Software Testing Qualifications Board as formal testing with respect to user needs, requirements

The recent decision of the Technology and Construction Court (TCC) in ICCT Ltd v Pinto [2019] EWHC 2134 (TCC) demonstrates circumstances in which residential occupiers

Real estate and flexibility have not traditionally gone hand in hand. Dealings with property have a reputation for being slow moving, time consuming and expensive

There has been little regulatory scrutiny of the role of the principal designer since it was introduced by the Construction (Design Management) Regulations 2015

The UK government's recent publication of the AI Opportunities Action Plan (the "Action Plan") purports to outline a strategic roadmap to position the nation as a global leader in AI.

Last month, Drapers Record, a leading publication for the retail sector, reported that local authorities are poised to spend an additional £230m on acquiring shopping centres in the coming year.

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