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Lynette Copland, a secretary at Carmarthenshire College, was awarded 3,000 euros plus costs of double that by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Copland v UK after succeeding in a challenge against her employer and the UK Government (the College being a statutory body, publicly funded and administered by the state).

The increase in use of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter means that individuals are putting vast amounts of information about themselves online.

Owners, Purchasers and Tenants of real estate - to protect your interests you should always find out if contractual rights of recourse to the construction team are available for your benefit (whether in the form of collateral warranties or otherwise) - a failure to do so could lose you a valuable right.

This week the European Court of Justice (ECJ) handed down its judgment in "Wall AG" (C-91/08), clarifying the test to be applied when a contracting authority seeks to vary an existing public contract, particularly in regard to where a sub-contractor is replaced, prior to or following contract award.

Google has launched a procedure for European individuals to submit requests to have links to their personal data removed from the internet.

The European Commission has issued fines against six liquid crystal display ("LCD") panel producers, totalling €648,925,000, for their participation in cartel activity.

The Lords recently heard the appeal case of Chartbrook Limited ("C") v Persimmon Homes Limited and others ("P") and considered, amongst other things, pre-contractual negotiations in the context of construing a contract.

Earlier this month, the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator ('OSCR') published the results of its inquiry into allegations of misconduct made against the Sick Kids Friends Foundation.

Every business owner needs to know two important things about their business:

Provisions relating to bribery in the field of contracts and public procurement are not new.

The BBC yesterday (19th July 2017) published its Annual Report and Accounts, which made for some interesting reading; not least because of the gender pay gap it revealed.

Following on from our e-update last month on the Employment Tribunals Annual Statistics Report for 2010/2011, the information in relation to average and highest awards has now been released.

You may have read our update in May last year in relation to public sector exit payments, in which we promised to issue a further update when Regulations were proposed by the Scottish Government.

You may recall the recent case of “R (On the application of "G") v The Governors of "X" School and "Y" Council”, which was featured in our e-update of 26 March.

Few would disagree that the boundaries between work and home life are becoming increasingly blurred as a result of developments in information technology and social media, but should the UK consider adopting something similar to France's latest plans?

Generally employers will be held responsible for the actions of their employees, where, and provided, those actions are carried out within the course of their employment. This is known as vicarious liability.

The Scottish Government has published its Infrastructure Investment Plan 2011, as heralded in our e-update of 30 November.