The Draft VABEO sets out the application of UK competition law to vertical Agreements.

B was an associate solicitor employed in the Real Estate department at Eversheds (E), a firm of solicitors. In 2008 it was decided that redundancies needed to be made in the Real Estate group.

The four claimant waitresses had between one and five years' service each. They alleged that for some years each had been subject to persistent unwanted sexual harassment by the manager of their restaurant.

In "Shanahan Engineering v Unite" the EAT recently considered the level of protective award payable to 50 employees who had been made redundant with no prior consultation, in breach of s.188 Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULRCA).

The fiduciary duties of a director, which require the director to avoid his or her own interests conflicting with those of the company, were recently codified in the Companies Act 2006 and now the High Court, in "Thermascan Ltd v Norman", has considered the extent of those duties.

In the case of Todd v Care Concern the EAT has given guidance to the parties to any TUPE transfer as to the extent of their statutory duty to inform and consult with affected employees.

In the recent case of "Weston Recovery Services v Fisher the EAT" reminded us that many dismissals are unfair even where the employer is contractually entitled to dismiss. Conversely, some dismissals are not unfair even though the dismissal was in breach of contract.

In "Woodward v Santander" the EAT considered the rules that apply to 'without prejudice' communications. The general rule is that any communication made 'without prejudice', that is to say in an effort to settle a claim, cannot be referred to in a court or tribunal.

The Danish Competition Council ("the DCC") has recently found that a voluntary chain in the textile industry, Boligtextilbranchens Indkøbsservice A.M.B.A. ("Botex"), infringed Article 6 of the...

Bird & Bird's Simon Shooter and Esme Strathcole take a look at the definition of a Digital Service Provider in the context of NISD and ask how a business might understand if it qualifies as a DSP.

The phenomenon of bird strikes is one that has plagued the airline industry for many years. Indeed, an American study on animal peril from 2011shows that 99,441 collisions between a plane...

Following the UK's EU exit, the UK government committed to introducing new rules for authorities that award subsidies to businesses.

In "Bullimore v Pothecery Witham Weld", the EAT considered the case of a reference given by an ex-employer which unnecessarily mentioned the fact that the claimant had brought a sex discrimination claim against them.

Last week, the Fish and Wildlife Service issued a proposed rule that would revoke the rule promulgated by the Trump Administration in January 2021 and return to the prior status quo, in which the incidental take of birds subject to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act constituted a violation of the Act.

Last week, the Office of the Solicitor in the Department of the Interior issued a legal Opinion concluding that the Migratory Bird Treaty Act does not prohibit the incidental take of migratory birds.

In July 2014, the Russian President signed data protection and information legislation that requires all "data operators" who are processing personal data of Russian citizens, including over the Internet, to do so from servers/databases within Russia.

DTSC has released the rulemaking for its second selected "priority product" which is spray polyurethane foam systems with unreacted methylene diphenyl diicyanates.

Jane Lucas, Bob Siggins, and JP Paluskiewicz discuss the policy implications of telehealth expansion as we emerge from the pandemic.

Kim Peretti is joined by Cynthia Kaiser, Deputy Assistant Director of FBI Cyber Division and Bryan Vorndran, Assistant Director of FBI Cyber Division to discuss common cyber threats in 2024 and steps companies can do...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), a critical step in facilitating nationwide data exchange.