Please find the latest edition of Citation, our legal newsletter. As you will see from our cover story, we are delighted to have retained our Tier 1 status in the latest edition of The Legal 500 and would like to thank the clients and contacts o...

We have an interesting selection of new cases below that cover a wide variety of employment issues. However, there is a common theme that runs through most of them. Communication, or rather the lack of it.Clear communication between employees and employers is essential and procedures should be put in place to ensure that this is technically, proced...

Our legal newsletter Citation has been going for over 15 years and has over 7000 subscribers, so we thought it about time to give it a little revamp to make it more appealing to the eye - we hope you like the changes.Articles in this edition include:...

​At the time of writing uncertainly still surrounds how/ when/ if we leave Europe and we have had a number of clients ask us whether the UK's separation from the EU will have an immediate or even a long term effect on UK employment law.​Much of EU employment law has been brought into effect via UK legislation, which will remain in force post-Brexit...

Welcome to our Winter newsletterArticles in this edition include:Key changes to Entrepreneurs’ Relief in the BudgetOwens V Owens - the impact on divorce proceedingsHigh Court ruling on restrictive covenantsWhy your Will does not have to be ‘fair’View...

Welcome to our Employment E-BulletinThe law on constructive dismissal has been under the spotlight recently. Sometimes, employees claim constructive dismissal because of a 'last straw' which pushes them over the edge. The courts have recently considered whether a fair disciplinary process – no matter what the outcome – can ever be that 'last straw'...

Welcome to our Employment E-BulletinAreyou ready forGDPR? The data protection laws implementing the General Data Protection Regulationwhich will come into force on 25 May 2018 increase liability for employers and data processors, and significantly ra...

Welcome to our spring newsletter

The unmistakable hints of Christmas that are appearing in shops are signaling that 2017 is nearing its close.

With next year just around the corner, employers are being urged to make preparations for one major shake-up that will take effect in May 2018.

We first mentioned the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) back in our winter 2016 edition of Citation. The GDPR will replace the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) as the prevailing legislation in the UK for data protection, and will apply to all organisations that process, handle and store any personal data of EU residents.