Given IT developments, it is now possible for employees working for British businesses to work remotely from other countries. Businesses that use remote workers in other countries should take note of an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision which examined the…
Plans for a state-of-the-art energy-from-waste plant and recycling facility – which are considered to be of ‘national significance’ – have received the green light after the Court of Appeal rejected a challenge to the scheme. The plant was projected to…
Two companies, each of which claims the other should bear the heavy burden of a cost over-run during construction of a waste-to-energy plant, had to resort to the High Court to make sense of their respective contractual obligations. Company A…
‘Horsey Talk’ interpretation for non- horsey office colleagues The winter months are well and truly upon us and the windy, cold, wet, dark mornings challenge the most dedicated and hardy equestrians. Whilst horsey life can be hard work spare a…
This is our second ‘virtual’ walk, in 2014 we did a virtual walk from our office to John O’Groats completing the 947km early in December, and raising just under a £1,000 for a local hospice at the same time. This…
The Government has announced the names of a further 37 employers who have failed to pay their workers the National Minimum Wage (NMW). Collectively, the offenders owe a total of £177,000 in arrears and have received financial penalties totalling more…
In a case which illustrates the continuing quandary of accurately defining the concept of disability, a services manager who claimed that he was discriminated against due to hearing impairment and a painful condition affecting his shoulder has had his hopes…
E-cigarettes are becoming more and more popular and, as is common when an innovation occurs, the law struggles to keep up. In a recent case, the Employment Tribunal (ET) had to consider a claim for constructive dismissal brought by a…
The power of judges does not extend to the mending of personal relationships, as a senior doctor discovered when the High Court refused to order his return to work almost four years after he was excluded from the operating theatre…
British bands from the Beatles to the Stones and the Clash to the Smiths all started out playing gigs in Great British pubs. But in recent times pubs and live music venues have come under threat of closure over noise…
