Less than a week after the landmark Pimlico Plumbers ruling, online food delivery company Deliveroo has turned to Lewis Silkin and 11KBW to defend it after a High Court judge gave the go-ahead for a judicial review. On Friday Mrs Justice Simler overturned a previous High Court decision and granted permission for the Independent Workers […]
In a David and Goliath battle, Mishcon de Reya client Pimlico Plumbers has lost its final appeal against a former employee in a long-running feud over workers’ rights. The five judges unanimously agreed that claimant Gary Smith was a Pimlico Plumbers employee during his time working for the company and not, as Pimlico Plumbers was […]
Just months after the Simmons & Simmons launch, Lewis Silkin has joined the ranks of firms investing in an Ireland foothold ahead of Brexit.
Simpson Millar has extended the redundancy consultation it began in December which could affect more than 20 per cent of the firm’s legal and support staff.
Linklaters has hired Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Timon Grau to join its German practice. Grau will join the firm in March and split his time between its Düsseldorf and Frankfurt offices. He began his career in 2006 with Freshfields in Cologne before moving to Frankfurt. He made partner in 2014. Meanwhile, Frankfurt-based British partner Matthew Devey […]
Since 2013, the same five firms have occupied the top five positions in The Lawyer’s Litigation Top 50.
Earlier this week, Mishcon became a public player in a toxic battle over anti-Semitism that is threatening to engulf the Labour Party.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has arrived in London. The US firm revealed in June that it was to launch a office in the City to provide US access and support to UK-based technology and life sciences companies. It officially opened yesterday, based on Old Street in the heart of London’s technology community. The new shop will […]
“We want to be at the forefront of law firm tech innovation,” says Mishcon’s chief technology officer Nick West
It is a historical oddity of magic circle figures that there is always one firm that has an off year.
Lawyers discuss the lessons that can be learned from recent cyber security breaches and the best ways to prevent future infringements
Back at Shearman, Ward McKimm will be reunited with his former client base – and with some old friends.
But much has changed in the seven years since he left Shearman & Sterling. Can the superstar partner replicate his past success, or is it true that you can never go back?
Corporates are increasingly going direct to funders with opportunities, meaning firms are last in on the conversation
To accompany our extended feature on the legal tech revolution we have singled out some of the main evangelists for change across the profession.
The penalties imposed on individuals for fatal accidents in the workplace are set to increase after the Sentencing Council for England and Wales published its definitive sentencing guideline for gross negligence manslaughter. Walker Morris health and safety experts, Stuart Ponting and Robert Starr, consider the new guideline and the implications for employers and directors…
By Michael Briggs This month, in our Breaking Down the Handbook series, we look at capability policies and why they are a useful tool for employers to have when it comes to dealing with poor performance…
By Kieran Laird There have been several cases in recent years in which the courts have considered whether it is permissible to bring a tort claim against a UK parent company in relation to alleged human rights breaches by its overseas subsidiary. The Court of Appeal has again considered the issue in AAA & Ors. […]
By Helen Burgess In this second of two articles I’m going to share with you, as employers of sponsored migrant workers, five more pearls of wisdom that may have passed you by or that may just serve as a useful reminder to you…
By Russell Bailey In Patel v Folkestone Nursing Home Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 1689 the Court of Appeal gave clarification on the correct approach to a “fudged” appeal against a dismissal. Was there a dismissal or not?
An organisation should be able to make clear what is permitted as strong management and what is considered as misuse of power and harassment, just as it should be able to explain when employees in subordinate positions can express their thoughts and when such behaviour crosses the line and becomes insubordination and harassment of their […]
This Kinstellar White Paper has been prepared by our experts to give insight into the main powers assigned by Romanian law (Law 108/1999 and GD 488/2017) to the Labour Inspection Authority during “dawn raids“…
By Darran Brennan and Catherine O’Flynn In our Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Workplace article series we are considering the potential positive impacts that AI could have on the workplace and the possible amendments required to Irish employment law to allow these to happen. In our opening article in the series we identified gender inequality […]
By Antonia Blackwell Following on from our previous article covering the process employers should follow in an individual redundancy consultation, we now focus on the practical steps an employer should go through to ensure compliance with the collective consultation process…
Nowadays, the platform employee has become an integral part of society and Uber, Deliveroo, Foodora and Temper are the key players in the street scene. While developments in the digital age are taking place at a rapid pace, the legal system does not seem to be able to keep up with these developments. Last week […]
By Danielle Ingham Every few months, the government releases a list of employers who have failed to pay their employees the national minimum wage (NMW). The most recent round of naming and shaming has revealed that no less than ten professional sports clubs have fallen foul of the NMW legislation and this isn’t a new […]
From 2017, Romanian law empowers labour office inspectors to determine if an activity performed under a “work for hire” contract, i.e., based on a contract other than an employment contract, is in fact rendered under the conditions of an employment relationship. However, Romanian labour law does not specify the criteria based on which the authorities […]
