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  • Using agency workers to cover striking employees?

    The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2022 was passed last year.  Its main purpose was to revoke the prohibition on…

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    Posted on 6 September, 2023 by Ortolan

  • Forget the Houses! Save the Green Belt!

    Three in ten people think that more than half of land in England has been built on, according to a new Ipsos survey carried out for the Economist.  Not such a green and…

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    Posted on 6 September, 2023 by Ortolan

  • All change for Alcohol Duty

    Reforms to the Alcohol Duty system come into place on 1 August 2023, marking the largest changes for almost half a century - and will be of interest to any retailers or…

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    Posted on 13 July, 2023 by Ortolan

  • Have your say - AML supervision

    A new consultation by HM Treasury has been published on proposed reform of the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) supervisory system. The…

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    Posted on 13 July, 2023 by Ortolan

  • New Cyber Threat Report

    The latest Cyber Threat to the Legal Sector report has been published by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The purpose of the report is to assist law firms, lawyers…

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    Posted on 13 July, 2023 by Ortolan

  • Retained EU Law - an update

    The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill was introduced to Parliament in September 2022 and at the time, aimed to remove retained EU law from the statute books by the…

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    Posted on 13 July, 2023 by Ortolan

  • Teams- Lessons learnt from implementing legal tech

    We live in a world where AI and tech solutions are advertised as making teams more effective but when you make a decision to implement a new technology solution, you need…

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    Posted on 13 July, 2023 by Ortolan

  • Positive Action verses Positive Discrimination

    The Equality Act 2010 contains provisions concerning lawful "positive action”.  This permits an employer to make actions to enable or encourage those, who share a…

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    Posted on 13 July, 2023 by Ortolan

  • Do Heads of Terms create a binding agreement between parties?

    Case Pretoria Energy Company (Chittering) Limited v Blankney Estates Limited. Background Energy company Pretoria wished to take a lease of Blankney’s land. The Court of…

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    Posted on 13 July, 2023 by Ortolan

  • New ACAS guidance on mental health and reasonable adjustments in the workplace

    “Disability” is defined in the Equality Act as a mental or physical impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person's ability to carry out…

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    Posted on 13 June, 2023 by Ortolan

  • Don’t rely on Implied Terms!

    In Barton and others v Morris and another in place of Gwyn Jones (deceased) [2023] UKSC 3 the court held that a contract which provided for an introduction fee to be paid if a…

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    Posted on 12 June, 2023 by Ortolan

  • Proposals to Limit Non-Compete Clauses

    The government has published a response this month (May 2023) only three years after carrying out a consultation on changes to non-compete clauses back in 2020.  The…

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    Posted on 7 June, 2023 by Ortolan

  • New guidance on Menopause and menstruation at work launched

    Whilst the government has rejected calls for the menopause to be added as a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010, the UK’s national standards body, The…

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    Posted on 7 June, 2023 by Ortolan

  • Renters (Reform) Bill Update

    The long awaited Renters (Reform) Bill has been published by the government after first being introduced by then-Prime Minister, Theresa May, back in 2019. On 17 May 2023, the…

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    Posted on 7 June, 2023 by Ortolan

  • The importance of paying the correct issue fee

    In what appears to be the first High Court authority on this point, the Court confirmed in Peterson v Howard de Walden Estates [2023] EWHC 929 (KB) that a failure to pay the…

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    Posted on 6 June, 2023 by Ortolan

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