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Two recent cases from the Employment Appeal Tribunal illustrate some potential pitfalls when women with childcare responsibilities are asked to move away from fixed working hours...

Two recent cases from the Employment Appeal Tribunal illustrate some potential pitfalls when women with childcare responsibilities are asked to move away from fixed working hours...

The High Court’s decision in February 2021 not to disqualify the directors (i.e. the trustees) of the charity, Kids Company, for financial mismanagement was widely reported.

As more landowners and developers commit to net zero targets, we are seeing increasing proposals for net zero buildings – buildings which balance any greenhouse gases produced during development and emitted during the running of the building with emissions taken out of the atmosphere...

The Mills & Reeve procurement team are delivering a webinar with Public Health England on 6 July at 12 noon to provide an overview of the call-off terms and conditions, including the ordering process under the new National Microbiology Framework...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has reversed the employment tribunal’s decision that Maya Forstater’s belief that “biological sex is real, important, immutable and not to be conflated with gender identity” did not qualify for protection under the Equality Act as a religious or philosophical belief...

The Divisional Court, which included the Chief Coroner have recently considered an important case involving the application of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the scope of the positive operational and the enhanced investigative Article 2 duties in R (Morahan) v Assistant Coroner for West London...

Back in 2018 NHS England and NHS Improvement undertook a period of engagement followed by a formal consultation in 2019 on guidance relating to individuals held within prisons and immigration removal centres (IRCs) who have been detained under the Mental Health Act for assessment and treatment within mental health in-patient services...

We now have confirmation that new legislation is planned requiring staff working in CQC registered care homes in England to have two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine, unless they have a medical exemption...

The Health and Social Care Select Committee’s new report from its inquiry into workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care makes clear that burnout is a “widespread reality” and has negative effects on staff mental health, impacting staff and patients...

In a recent blog post, the Fundraising Regulator announced that it intends to develop a pathway for charities and other organisations involved in fundraising to “self-report” incidents that breach the Code of Fundraising Practice...

Updated guidance for Building Safety Fund applicants: Last month the government published some updated guidance for applicants to the Building Safety Fund...