Blog archive

New guidance has been published by the Charity Commission to help trustees decide when they must report a serious incident to the Commission relating to the coronavirus pandemic...

Responsibility for site conditions is often a source of heated discussion during the negotiation of construction contracts...

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing charities to take a long, hard look at their finances, as well as requiring some charities to launch emergency fundraising appeals in response to rising demand for their services...

For a great insight into the data protection and technological issues around the NHSX App please do take a look at this blog from our new Partner, Jagvinder Singh Kang...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled that significant enhancements to terms and conditions, agreed by the transferor shortly before a TUPE transfer, were void and so did not bind the transferee...

The High Court has ruled that an employer remained legally liable to pay the remaining sums due under a COT3 settlement, despite the employee’s breach of a confidentiality clause in the settlement agreement...

Key messages from the Vice President. In his letter dated 4 May 2020, the Vice President of the Court of Protection, Mr Justice Hayden, responds to views expressed that the added pressures on society in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic health crisis must mean a relaxation of the protection of individuals’ rights...

Taking its toll on staff and the financial viability of the sector. Care staff working in the ASC sector report low morale, feeling ‘undervalued compared to their healthcare counterparts’ with some registered care home managers reported suffering from ‘burn out and extreme anxiety’...

To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week, Universities UK has published a refreshed call for action and framework guidance document, Stepchange: mentally healthy universities. Gary Attle, UK education and research sector lead takes a look at the refreshed framework...

The duty to take reasonably practicable steps to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing applies to staff wherever they are working...

Continuing with our systematic analysis of MF/1, we turn now to the role of the Engineer as set out in Section 2 of the MF/1 Contract...

We recently reviewed the law on cannabis-based medicines. It is clear that changes in scientific data and social attitudes mean that producers are faced with rapid evolution and differences in regulatory approach between countries, not only for medicines but for other products too.