Nearly two years ago, on 28 December 2017, the new Electronic Communications Code ("the Code"), set out in Schedule 3A to the Communications Act 2003

The Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission ("the Law Commissions") have launched their second consultation paper in their three year project commissioned by the...

DAC Beachcroft is receiving an increasing number of client requests on Covid-19 issues.

In a robust judgment delivered in the High Court this morning, Mrs Justice Tipples refused to extend the established meaning of the phrase "

The WRC annual report for 2018 contains a potentially surprising statistic that, although in general the number of discrimination complaints rose that year, the number of sexual discrimination complaints fell.

Whether there are many of our civil law judges who are familiar with these words attributed to Sophocles is a matter for speculation but they are fast becoming a tenet by which civil claims...

The dismissal of an employee may have been discriminatory even though the employer only found out about her disability at the internal appeal hearing.

Ms Rajput was a senior compliance adviser and vice president at Commerzbank. She, and two other vice presidents, a male and a female, applied for the role of head of market compliance.

Mr Sethi is a Sikh who adheres strictly to Kesh, which is the requirement that the hair of the body not be cut. Because of his belief in Kesh, Mr Sethi never cuts his beard.

An employee of an NHS Trust who resigned in response to the issuing of an informal "Improvement Notice" in a manner which was inconsistent with her employer's policy was constructively dismissed.

An employer who made a damaging false statement about a whistleblowing ex-employee to third parties in an attempt to set the record straight was not liable for whistleblowing detriment.

In this article we take a closer look at the current Environment Agency consultation covering River Basin Planning and consider issues for organisations operating in the Water Industry.

The Queens speech set out the goals of this parliament, its policies and pledges to improve Planning and the Environment in the UK, some of the key commitments are set out here.

We updated clients last month about NHS England and NHS Improvement's Digital-First Primary Care Policy: consultation on patient registration, funding and contracting rules.

Under English law, various intellectual property rights or IPRs, including rights in copyright, may subsist in aspects of software, including the source code, ...

While class-actions are not (yet) a recognised key feature of the English legal system, as they are in the US or Australia,...

In Woodward & another v Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Ltd1 the Court of Appeal applied the Supreme Court's decision in Barton2 and found that the Defendant had no duty to correct

Tim Ryan is a Partner and Head of Technology at international law firm DAC Beachcroft. He considers the impact of the 5G revolution for the health sector, in the build up to Tech Con 2019 in London

Judgment has been handed down regarding the challenge to the Debenhams CVA providing some long-awaited judicial guidance to certain aspects of retail CVAs.

Judgment has very recently been handed down regarding the challenge to the Debenhams CVA, providing some long-awaited judicial guidance to certain aspects of retail CVAs