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Activities fundamentally the same despite alterations to location and scope of service
01 March 2017The Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) has upheld an employment judge’s decision that a service to provide accommodation-based support services for homeless people had remained fundamentally the same before and after a TUPE service provision change (“SPC”), despite alterations to the location and scope of the service.
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Gender Pay Gap reporting for advertising agencies
01 March 2017Gender pay is an industry hot-topic and gender pay reporting is about to become compulsory for agencies who exceed a certain amount of employees.
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Beware of copyright when considering existing planning permission
02 March 2017The recent judgment in Signature Realty Ltd v Fortis Developments Ltd & Anor is an excellent example of the application of copyright in a planning and building context.
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Supreme Court ends British Gas challenge to holiday pay ruling
02 March 2017The Supreme Court has refused permission for British Gas to appeal against an important ruling that the calculation of holiday pay should include results-based commission.
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Lewis Silkin advises Four Communications on its acquisition of Legend Engage
09 March 2017Lewis Silkin is a leading international law firm to creative agencies and has advised Four Communications, the independent integrated agency, on its acquisition of Legend Engage, a data and insights-led agency.
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The risk for employers in bypassing collective bargaining
16 March 2017Where an employer has recognised a trade union for collective bargaining purposes, can it still put an offer directly to its employees? This was the thorny issue for consideration in a recent Employment Tribunal decision.
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Royal assent paves the way for Brexit
16 March 2017The Queen has this morning signed into law the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill which was passed by MPs and peers on Monday.
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Guideline on reduction in sentence for a guilty plea
16 March 2017The Sentencing Council for England and Wales has issued a new guideline. It applies equally in magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court, to all individual offenders aged 18 and older, and to organisations, in cases where the first hearing is after May 31 2017, regardless of the date of the offence.
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Important new guidelines for advertising prices to UK consumers
17 March 2017The long-awaited Guidance for Traders on Pricing Practices was finally issued by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSi) in December 2016. The previous guidelines had been around since the old DTI published its first Code of Practice in 1988, with the last iteration published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in 2010. Although the BIS guidance has been withdrawn, traders have until April 2017 to comply with the new Guidance. The Guidance will apply to any advertisers targetting UK consumers, including advertisers based abroad.
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Dressing to impress - discriminatory appearance codes
17 March 2017Laura Farnsworth and Emma Langhorn have written an article for HR review on discriminatory appearance codes in the workplace.
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CMA offers cash for whistleblowers
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New guidance on long-term sickness dismissals
23 March 2017The Court of Appeal has given some useful new guidance on the vexed question of when an employer can safely dismiss an employee who is on long-term sickness absence – although not all of the judges agreed with the result.
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Lewis Silkin announces launch of LS Live seminars for live events industry
23 March 2017Top 100 UK law firm Lewis Silkin LLP has launched LS Live, a new seminar series which deals with legal issues in the live entertainment industry: from live music to theatre, experiential to sport, product launches to festivals, and exhibitions to one-off global events.
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Lewis Silkin mentioned in The Times Law Diary
24 March 2017Lewis Silkin's latest immigration update: 'Don’t blink: The Immigration Rules are changing again' has been mentioned in Edward Fennell's Law Diary.
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ICO fines Flybe and Honda
28 March 2017The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued data protection fines to two household names: Flybe and Honda, for sending marketing emails in breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (“PECR”).
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Lewis Silkin speaking at launch of major techUK report
28 March 2017Naomi Hanrahan-Soar will be speaking at the launch of techUK’s Global Tech Talent Powering Global Britain report at the House of Commons on Thursday 30 March in relation to UK migration in the sector.
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The Best Lawyers 2018
28 March 2017Lewis Silkin is pleased to announce that four partners in their Employment, Immigration and Reward department have been listed in this year’s edition of Best Lawyers 2018.
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What game creators need to know about protecting their brands
30 March 2017We have written an article for GamesIndustry.biz, one of the leading websites for news and information about the global video games industry. The article comments on a recent kart racing suit filed by Nintendo and offers advice for game companies.
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Counterfeit tech products on the rise
30 March 2017The OECD has just published a report entitled “Trade in Counterfeit ICT Goods” which estimates that 6.5% of the global trade in information and communication technologies (ICT) equipment is counterfeit.
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Greater clarity on data subject access requests
30 March 2017A recent Court of Appeal decision has given clarity to data controllers in terms of the grounds on which they may refuse a data subject access request (“DSAR”), although the position is not always a helpful one.