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What you need to know about the new Social Housing Fraud Act
Press
15 October 2013In an article written for The Guardian's Housing Network, Paul Hayes discusses key aspects of the new act as well as raising questions that the act, designed to crack down on the estimates 100,000 social housing properties subject to fraud, leaves unanswered.
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Lewis Silkin team demonstrate pedal power with 36-hour charity cycle
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15 October 2013An 18-strong team from City law firm Lewis Silkin LLP will be embarking on a gruelling 150-mile cycle from London to Amsterdam in just 36 hours, with the aim of raising £10,000 of much-needed funds for the charity, Helen and Douglas House.
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Raising the standard of living and ending low pay: passing the buck to employers?
09 October 2013Politicians want a higher standard of living for all, with proposals to end low pay and get more money in more people's pockets. To do this, a range of policy initiatives are being debated that it's hoped will help people with the cost of living and raise living standards, but which will impact employers.
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#update: The evolution of the twitter '#' disclosure rules
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08 October 2013In an article for LawInSport, Alex Kelham discusses a complaint received by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) about a tweet Wayne Rooney posted for Nike; the second time his twitter activities have been scrutinised.
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The City takes a break from holidays
Press
30 September 2013In this Financial News article, Colin Leckey discusses results of the Financial News' City job satisfaction survey which found that 30.5% of survey participants did not take their entire holiday entitlement for the year.
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Guernsey Image Rights
Inbrief
26 September 2013Famous sportspeople, entertainers The Bailiwick of Guernsey, the small British Crown dependency in the English Channel known as an offshore tax haven, has achieved a ‘world first’ by establishing a unique registered image rights regime.
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A New Era for Consumer Rights
Inbrief
19 September 2013It has long been recognised that UK consumer law is not clear enough. Even the Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) website says it is out of date, confusing and incomplete.
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Lewis Silkin advises Publicis Groupe on its acquisition of specialist digital agency Poke London
Deal
19 September 2013Lewis Silkin has advised Publicis Groupe, one of the largest communications groups in the world, on its acquisition of specialist digital agency Poke London from its four founding shareholders and Mother Holdings Ltd.
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Employers' LinkedIn rights: another piece of the puzzle
Press
10 September 2013In an article for PLC Magazine, Ellen Temperton discusses a High Court ruling deciding that a former employer can exert some control over an employee’s LinkedIn account after termination in order to protect its business (Whitmar Publications Ltd v Gamage [2013] EWHC 1881 (Ch)). This is despite the fact that the LinkedIn user agreement is often in the name of the employee.
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Online monitoring
10 September 2013In an article for PLC Magazine, Ellen Temperton discusses whether looking up information posted on social media, such as LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter, or performing a search on an internet search engine, can be used as a basis for rejecting a job candidate, infringe an employee's data protection rights; or permit an employer to dismiss an employee.
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Regulating the recruitment sector - how far will the new framework go?
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14 August 2013In an article written for the International Law Office, Carla Feakins discusses the government's official response to its recent consultation on reforming the regulatory framework for the recruitment sector.
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Lewis Silkin acts on Secondary Placing for AIM Listed Fox Marble Holdings Plc
Deal
08 August 2013Lewis Silkin LLP has acted for Fox-Davies Capital Limited (“Fox-Davies”) on its role as nominated adviser and joint broker to Fox Marble Holdings plc (“Fox Marble”) in connection with Fox Marble’s secondary placing.
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YouTube stars coming to the fore in branded content
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08 August 2013In an article for Marketing Week, Philip Hughes discusses how brands working with video stars are now benefiting from the lack of focus from regulators in the vlogger and user-generated content areas.
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What are zero-hours contracts?
Press
05 August 2013In a BBC article, Michael Burd discusses the benefits of zero-hour contracts and why employers choose to use them.
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Lewis Silkin advises Orion Energy Plc on establishment of joint venture with Pakistan Petroleum Ltd
Deal
28 June 2013Lewis Silkin has advised its client Orion Energy Plc on the establishment of a joint venture with Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) to develop the offshore oil and gas potential of Pakistan.
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#acknowledge: advertising compliance on social media
Press
26 June 2013In an article for Law In Sport, Alex Kelham discusses various celebrity tweets which have fallen foul of advertising compliance codes and laws. Alex suggests that in order to avoid the indignation of ASA complaints, perhaps the answer is for agencies to do what they do best - get creative.
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Why you should avoid the distractions of the annual financial reporting round
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26 June 2013In an article for Managing Partner, Ian Jeffery discusses the first sets of annual results coming out of the UK's leading law firms for the financial year 11/12 and how prominence is often given to short term measures, such as profit per equity partner (PEP).
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Employer issues with LinkedIn: Stemming the tide
Press
26 June 2013In an article for PLC Magazine, Ellen Temperton discusses the issues that employers may face when its employees use professional networking sites, such as LinkedIn.
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100 Years of Employment Law
Press
18 June 2013Richard Lister wrote an article for the Impact magazine to mark the centenary of the CIPD, taking a look back at how UK employment law has evolved over the past 100 years.