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Sports Q&A – Political and religious views of sports stars - balancing contractual restrictions with human rights
01 June 2018Sports personalities are often subject to sporting rules that restrict their ability to make political statements or promote religious ideology when competing. Furthermore, contractual provisions can also mean that statements made in their personal capacity while off duty, for example on social media, can lead to disciplinary action or worse. Can such restrictions be challenged on the basis of human rights? Does it make a difference if the athlete genuinely holds the views (e.g. because of religious or cultural beliefs)?
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EU Commission confirms its views on EWCs and a “no-deal” Brexit
01 May 2019The European Commission (“EC”) has recently revised its March 2018 guidance on the legal repercussions of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU for European Work’s Councils (“EWCs”), including the implications of a “no-deal” Brexit.
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New video sharing platform regulations - something to get twitchy about?
26 October 2020Does your website/app/platform allow the sharing of videos? Even just as an add-on to its main activities? If so new regulations governing video sharing platforms need to be on your radar.
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Vexed vexillologists: New battleground on Amazon listings (Brands & IP Newsnotes - issue 6)
12 October 2017The UK’s Intellectual Property Enterprise Court recently found in favour of a brand whose Amazon listing had been high-jacked by a competitor. In very simple terms, manufacturers can create listings for their products on Amazon. Third parties can then add themselves to those listings, and whoever offers the cheapest price is automatically presented as the seller.
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Unions have no veto over changes to terms, Supreme Court confirms
28 October 2021In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has confirmed that trade unions do not enjoy a veto over employers making direct offers to their members to change their terms and conditions of employment.
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A very costly “Boys Night Out”- Atrium fined over £1 million due to non-financial misconduct
30 March 2022The insurance market, Lloyd's of London has issued its largest ever fine - and its first ever for non-financial misconduct – against a firm that was found to have tolerated bullying and sexist behaviour on an annual "Boys Night Out".
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Venture capital in the US and UK – a comparison
26 September 2022The increasing number of innovative scale-up companies and the UK’s ability to attract world class talent means that the UK is an attractive destination for investments by US venture capital funds (US VCs). In turn, this means that US VCs have become an increasingly important source of capital for UK based high growth businesses.
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ESG in the balance: Will crypto be a vehicle for advancement or will it undermine positive change? Part 1
16 February 2022E is for Environmental: Is it just about the energy usage, or could crypto enable us to ‘build back better’?
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ESG in the balance: Will crypto be a vehicle for advancement or will it undermine positive change? Part 2
17 February 2022S is for Social: Is crypto only an investment trap for the unwary consumer, and a vehicle for financial crime, or can it facilitate positive societal benefits?
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ESG in the balance: Will crypto be a vehicle for advancement or will it undermine positive change? Part 3
18 February 2022G is for Governance: Can the crypto governance conundrum be resolved to realise its potential social and environmental benefits?
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Her Majesty’s Government enters the VC market
24 April 2020The UK Government is now to become the latest VC to provide finance to start-ups, but what are the terms of this support? Is this finance likely to be useful or are those terms overly punitive? Will this impact on the terms available from existing investors? We analyse this below.
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VAT and income tax deferrals to assist VAT-paying businesses and the self-employed during Covid-19 Outbreak
27 March 2020As part of the sweeping financial package announced by the Government on 20 March 2020, the Government is offering VAT and income tax deferrals to assist with the cash-flow of VAT-paying businesses and the self-employed. These deferrals are expected to provide over £30bn of additional cash-flow to a wide variety of British businesses.
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Varying a worldwide freezing order: timely collaboration and transparency is key – Lewis Silkin advises successful respondent
07 March 2024An attempt to vary a £88m worldwide freezing order to permit the sale of a significant London property was successfully resisted recently by the Claimant, represented by Lewis Silkin. We explore the issues arising in the recent High Court judgment, which confirmed the importance of timely collaboration and transparency when considering the variation of a freezing order.
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Apprenticeships: jurisdictional variations
08 February 2024It’s National Apprenticeship Week and, continuing our focus on hiring apprentices, we consider how the requirements for apprenticeships vary across the United Kingdom, and highlight key considerations for employers operating across different jurisdictions when hiring apprentices.
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Turnover is Vanity, Profit is Sanity, Cash is Reality
31 March 2023Hardly a day goes by when a residential landlord is not bombarded by a seemingly endless torrent of bad news about the future of owning Buy-to-Lets or investment portfolios. Residential landlords and investors are leaving the market in droves. Driven away by rising interest rates, ever-increasing costs and the perceived burden of legislative and regulatory reforms.
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Sherlock Holmes and the case of the vanishing director
30 August 2016Any good director knows that they have a duty to act in accordance with the company's articles of association. These dictate how directors should be appointed and removed, how shares are transferred and how key decisions should be made. Yet real life isn’t always that neat in practice. So what happens if a company discovers that it has invalidly appointed directors over the past twelve years? A recent judgment tells us that company articles can be amended by conduct – but warns that your articles can still come back to bite you in the end.
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Creating tangible value from an intangible business asset – how IP strategy is climbing the boardroom agenda
30 January 2020Intellectual property is climbing the boardroom agenda as C-suite leaders realise it is no longer simply an asset to register and protect against infringement, it's something that adds genuine and tangible value to their business.
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High value finance available for purchasing property – how should I structure my loan?
23 June 2022In the search for high value property finance, there are multiple ways you can structure your facility. Whether you are considering a capital repayment or interest only mortgage, a loan with or without assets under management, or securities-backed lending, we outline below what you can expect from each facility.
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Service of a claim form on an agent - was it valid?
22 June 2017In a recent case the High Court considered as a preliminary issue whether a claimant had validly served a claim form on what they considered was the agent of the claimant. The rules of service require that the defendant must be served at the place within the jurisdiction where it conducts business, or where it carries on its activities and which has a real connection with the claim. Therefore the question here was whether the agent’s office was a place at which the defendant conducted its business, or where it carried on its activities?
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Ireland - Collecting employee vaccine data – latest guidance
24 June 2021With many employers planning the return to the workplace the question arises as to what vaccination data (if any) can be collected from returning staff. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has [finally] issued guidance clarifying its position on whether it is permissible for employers to collect and process this information.