Charities will welcome the decision of the Supreme Court that discrimination laws do not cover volunteers.

Dismissing an employee while they are in receipt of Permanent Health Insurance benefits can potentially lead to paying very costly damages for wrongfully depriving the employee of the benefit.

Employers are faced with a number of limitations following a TUPE transfer, but most do not realise how long those restrictions might last.

Landlords will welcome the recent decision of the Supreme Court restricting the rights of tenants of long leases to acquire the freehold interest in their property under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967.

Aside from the broad due diligence risk, market forces and best practice have adjusted to the prevailing environment.

How employers can protect themselves against unfair dismissal claims when selecting employees for redundancy from a pool has been highlighted in a recent case.

Ikea, the Swedish manufacturer of flat-pack furniture and purveyor of Swedish meatballs, has been accused of using forced labour. It is the latest in a long line of major corporates and global brands that have ended up having to de-fuse a potential public relations bomb.

A recent Employment Tribunal decision has provided a useful insight into the issue of when a forced retirement might not amount to age discrimination.

Liverpool Football Club manager Brendan Rodgers has made recent headlines concerning restrictive covenants made with Swansea City.

So the Olympics may be over, but back in the world of commercial litigation contingency fees are just around the corner, April 2013 to be exact.

An employer was entitled to rely on a final written warning when dismissing an employee, even though that employer had not considered evidence casting doubt on the allegations when it issued that final warning. Will Walsh from the Employment Team explains further.

A recent judgment has shed some much needed light on how employers must deal with payment in lieu of untaken holiday to employees who have been on long term sick leave prior to the termination of their employment. Peter Jones in the Employment Team explains.

The Health and Safety Executive will be carrying out fewer routine checks on employers from April 2013.

To many, it is not in the nature of human relations to bring them to a close in a calm measured and amicable way. However, all the understandable human emotion aside, there is a "wider picture" that the parties usually have to bear in mind - the children.

Stuart Evans examines the impact of this US style fee arrangement coming to the UK, and how this provides further litigation funding options for clients.

But to technology users the acronym ‘BYOD’ has an altogether different meaning, standing for ‘Bring Your Own Device’.

A discussion which examines whether a company can enter into a contract using its trade name and not its registered name.

Recent legal developments highlight the importance of making sure a side letter to a document has all of the elements it needs to be legally binding, otherwise you could find that you have an expensive extra piece of paper which has no more than a moral effect.

At about this time of year, the papers fill with stories about the post-Yuletide divorce rate. Incredibly, some bookmakers even take bets upon which date the greatest number of divorce petitions will be filed – known as "D Day".

The Government's flagship Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill seems set to make life more complicated for individuals.