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Contract: Special K

Penningtons Manches LLP

Richard Marshall and James Harrison kick around a new case on implied contracts...

Latham & Watkins

Oliver Browne and Robert Price analyse the future direction of arbitration...

Vicarious liability: You can’t bank on it

Severn Trent Water Ltd

Kate Raybould has some bad news for employers...

Burges Salmon LLP

Tom Whittaker looks at the use of technology in investigations...

4 New Square Chambers

Carl Troman assesses a recent decision on service by email...

Walker Morris LLP

Gwendoline Davies and Lynsey Oakdene highlight the conflict between a non-reliance clause and a misrepresentation claim...

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

Miriam Everett, Julian Copeman, Christine Young, Andrew Moir, Greig Anderson and Lucy McAlister consider a recent Court of Appeal judgment...

Penningtons Manches LLP

Nicole Finlayson and Clare Arthurs exorcise the ghost of privilege past...

Staff procedures: Create or update a disciplinary policy and procedure

Pinsent Masons

In the second part of our series, Diane Nicol and Lesley Finlayson look at how to refresh an organisation’s disciplinary procedure in light of recent case law...

Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Kirsti Laird and Connie Holden give advice on some of the most difficult issues that employers have been facing since the GDPR came into effect last May...

Linklaters LLP

Mirit Ehrenstein and Cara Hegarty explain how executive pay disclosure will work and what affected businesses need to do now to comply...

Mayer Brown International LLP

Christopher Fisher and Jennifer Watts assess the impact of the Court of Appeal’s ruling in Timis v Osipov and examine what employers should do now...

Irwin Mitchell LLP

Shah Qureshi and Natalie Taylor discuss how employers can use non-disclosure agreements to settle workplace disputes while avoiding unethical behaviour...

Hogan Lovells

Stefan Martin and Jo Broadbent outline the key developments that employers and their advisers should prepare for in the next 12 months...

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

Mark Kaye rounds up recent case law and developments affecting employers and their advisers...

Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

In the first part of a new series on how to write or refresh employment policies, Clare Davis looks at what to include in a staff handbook and how to avoid problems when making changes...

Schedule 1: Relocation, relocation

Rayden Solicitors

Shantel Burbridge analyses the court’s approach to a Schedule 1 case in which the applicant sought a replacement property for the benefit of the children...

Harrogate Family Law

Emma Doughty explores the practical challenge of protecting clients from pension pitfalls and best practice including the use of checklists...

JMW

Ruth Kearns considers the creation of corporate structures in other jurisdictions to frustrate the enforcement of a financial remedy final order...

Rayden Solicitors

Rachel Nicholl examines the courts’ approach to business assets and the different orders that may be made to deal with such assets...

Vardags

Amy Harris looks at the requirements as to service to seise jurisdiction, and whether a delay in serving a divorce petition may impact on the priority of proceedings...

Kingsley Napley LLP

Sital Fontenelle and Katie Newbury submit that provision in the Immigration Rules as to sole responsibility is outdated and at odds with the Children Act 1989...

Women's Aid

Katie Ghose and Natalie Friday provide a campaigner’s and a practitioner’s perspective on the failure to protect victims of domestic abuse from cross-examination by an alleged perpetrator...

Slater and Gordon

Joanne Green examines the enforcement of maintenance orders within the EU and the potential impact of Brexit...

Human rights: Claims against the police post Robinson and DSD – part two

12 King's Bench Walk (Chambers of Paul Russell QC)

In the second part of a two-part analysis, John-Paul Swoboda outlines the decision in Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v DSD and looks at the wider impact on claims against the police...

12 King's Bench Walk (Chambers of Paul Russell QC)

Costs budgets; relief from sanctions...

Exchange Chambers

Pankaj Madan explores recent research into the effect of the litigation process on chronic pain conditions...

9 Gough Square (Chambers of Andrew Ritchie QC)

Shahram Sharghy reports on a case that concerned whether a duty of care was owed by a non-medically-trained receptionist...

12 King's Bench Walk (Chambers of Paul Russell QC)

Is an employer vicariously liable for injuries inflicted during a fight between employees? David Sanderson examines a recent case...

St John's Chambers (Chambers of Susan Hunter)

James Marwick and Marcus Coates-Walker provide an invaluable summary of the latest decisions in the ever-changing arena of Part 36 offers...

2 Temple Gardens

Martin Porter QC considers all the hot issues involving cycling accidents...

12 King's Bench Walk (Chambers of Paul Russell QC)

Costs recovery; QOCS protection; counterclaims...

Legislation: Going public

Millstream

Duncan Dallas sets out the new procurement thresholds...

TLT LLP

Alexandra Holsgrove Jones and Katherine Evans report on the recent amendment to the indexation provisions of the CIL Regulations...

Fenwick Elliott

Jeremy Glover examines the recoverability of overheads and profits as part of a damages claim...

Mills & Reeve

Claire Williams summarises the latest government response to the Cybersecurity Directive...

Paris Smith LLP

Peter Kershaw answers some key questions on battery storage...

Practice: Begin the beguine

Chris Hoyle

Chris Hoyle reflects on effective contract management...

Burges Salmon LLP

Patrick Parkin interrogates recent Crown Commercial Service guidance...

Womble Bond Dickinson

Helen Pearce and Sam Cave-Browne-Cave provide clarification on liquidated damages and the scope of final accounts...

Undue influence claims: What remedies?

University of Greenwich

Mark Pawlowski examines the remedies available to an undue influence claimant under English law...

John Starr

John Starr reports on a construction case where the court reviewed an exclusion clause that sought to exclude all liability...

Dentons

Do ATMs amount to hereditaments for the purposes of business rates? A recent decision may provide good news to retailers and ATM operators, as Bryan Johnston and Ross Wilson discover...

Brabners LLP

A landlord should consider the longer term goals when a tenant falls into arrears, as Helena Davies finds out...

Dentons

The Court of Appeal has considered whether the Secretary of State is required to give reasons for deciding not to ‘call in’ a planning application. Ralph Kellas considers the court’s findings and its implications...