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Paying different dividends to different share classes: as easy as A, B, C?
16 June 2017Giving a company the ability to pay different rates of dividend to different shareholders can be a useful tool.
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Lewis Silkin 'most highly nominated European firm' by Who's Who Legal: Labour and Employment 2017
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16 June 2017We are pleased to announce that Lewis Silkin has been listed in Who’s Who Legal: Labour and Employment 2017, an exhaustive guide to the world’s leading Labour and Employment lawyers.
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What is an independent witness?
16 June 2017If we send you a document to sign and say that you need to have someone, who is independent, “witness” your signature, there’ll be space under the section for your signature for the witness to sign and insert their contact details.
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Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Work
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16 June 2017Michael Burd has written an article for Employment Solicitor which discusses the role of artificial intelligence and robotics in the workplace.
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Competition watchdog turns the spotlight on to eCommerce
15 June 2017We have written an article for Essential Retail which takes a look at the European Commission’s report on competition in eCommerce.
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Lewis Silkin appointed to act as sole external advisor on UK employment and immigration work for Deliveroo
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15 June 2017Lewis Silkin is delighted to have been appointed to Deliveroo’s first formal legal panel to act as its sole external advisor on UK employment and immigration among other matters.
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Tribunal finds father entitled to full pay for shared parental leave
14 June 2017An Employment Tribunal has decided that it was direct sex discrimination not to pay full salary to a father taking shared parental leave, in circumstances where a mother taking maternity leave during the same period would have received full pay.
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Employer must provide ‘adequate facility’ to take annual leave, says Advocate General
14 June 2017An Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has given his opinion that employers must provide an “adequate facility” for workers to exercise the right to paid annual leave under the EU Working Time Directive (“WTD”). On termination of employment, the employer must pay in lieu of untaken leave for the period during which the worker did not have such a facility to take it.
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Errors in shift allocation could cost you your business and your freedom
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14 June 2017Naomi Hanrahan-Soar has written an article for The Caterer, Licensee & Hotelier (CLH), discussing the risks and consequences of illegal working penalties in the hospitality sector.
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Second round of changes to Australia's Subclass 457 visa
13 June 2017Following on from our last e-flash on Australia’s recent immigration reform to scrap and replace the existing Subclass 457 visa which took immediate effect in April, the second round of immigration changes will be taking effect on 1 July 2017.
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Warranty and Indemnity Insurance – the what, why and how of it?
13 June 2017Whilst the use of W&I Insurance in M&A transactions has been available for some time, its use has increased dramatically in the past few years, particularly in the technology, real estate and manufacturing sectors.
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Zero Hours Contracts in Hospitality
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13 June 2017Laura Farnsworth has written an article for The Caterer, Licensee & Hotelier (CLH) which discusses the use of zero hour contracts in the hospitality industry.
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Graeme Wood appointed as COO
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12 June 2017We are delighted to announce that Graeme Wood has joined the firm as our new chief operating officer (COO).
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Budget discussion report deemed an abuse of the cost budgeting process
09 June 2017A Defendant’s budget discussion report (Precedent R) was disregarded by the court due to the “lack of reality” of the offered costs.
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Lewis Silkin comments for Association of National Advertisers
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09 June 2017Lewis Silkin commented in an article for Association of National Advertisers on the looming changes in privacy law in the EU known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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What might the election result mean for employment law?
09 June 2017A handful of results remain outstanding at the time of writing, but it seems that the general election is going to end in a hung Parliament with the Conservative Party not having won quite enough seats to have an outright majority.
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Influencer Rights & Regulations
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08 June 2017Jo Farmer have taken part in a Q&A for One Roof Social on influencer rights and regulations.
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Lewis Silkin comments for Digiday UK: A marketer’s guide to the looming EU Global Data Protection Regulation
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07 June 2017Lewis Silkin commented in an article for Digiday UK which discusses key impacts of the new General Data Protection Regulations and what this means for marketers.
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Patents Court maintains injunction protecting Warner-Lambert’s second medical use patent for pregabalin
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07 June 2017Joanna McCulloch and Dr Chris Hayes have written an article for the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice.
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Clicks & bricks - keeping digital while going physical
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06 June 2017Julia Poulter and Tom Merrick have written an article for Essential Retail as they take a look at the challenges of omnichannel and what e-tailers should think of before turning to physical.