The government is on a mission to keep parties out of the employment tribunal system.

The Pensions Bill 2013 has been published, and it does not contain any surprises, but confirms matters previously announced.

The Pensions Regulator (the Regulator) has begun to exercise its supervisory powers over the public service pension schemes.

A progress report on the implementation of recommendations made by Professor Löfstedt’s 2011 review of health and safety legislation shows that action has now been completed on 17 of the 22 areas addressed by the review.

Over recent years, many employers with DB schemes have considered changing the index used for revaluing deferred benefits and increasing pensions in payment.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced in his Autumn Statement on 5 December 2013 that the Government will introduce a climate change agreement for the UK data centre sector by the end of 2013.

Arbitration is a confidential and consensual dispute resolution process and there are question marks around how suited it is to deal with disputes that raise issues around illegal conduct.

The dependence of modern businesses on IT systems and the far-reaching consequences of IT failure were illustrated with dramatic effect by the system crash suffered by RBS in 2012.

Any assessment of the impact of Brexit requires a degree of crystal ball gazing: its impact is very uncertain and will remain so for years.

The High Court has this week granted a consortium of landlords permission to appeal against previous decisions that rent falling due pre-administration is not payable as an expense of the administration.

In the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote, we published a briefing on the implications of the result. This briefing focuses on the implications for financial services, a key part of the UK's economy.

In a dramatic announcement on 19 July, EU Commissioner Viviane Reding stated that the European Commission will be reviewing its Safe Harbor Agreement with the US

The Government has published its proposals for the reclassification of occupational pension schemes in the Pension Schemes Bill.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, delivered his 2015 Autumn Statement and Spending Review on 25 November 2015.

HMRC has been reconsidering its treatment of VAT on expenses in DB schemes since the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the PPG case in July 2013.

When a drafting error is discovered in pension schemes rules it can be an expensive and lengthy process to correct it.

The background to the case is that, in March 2014, the Office for National Statistics announced that RPI no longer met the standard to be designated as a "national statistic". RPI has however continued to be published.

In L R Avionics Technologies Ltd v The Federal Republic of Nigeria & Anor [2016] EWHC 1761 (Comm), a recent judgment in the High Court in London, Mr Justice Males considered the application of sections...