3/31/2025 11:44:31 AM Bad news for employment? Are we going to see unintended negative consequences from the impending changes? By Rebecca Berry This week, it will cost a business more to employ someone than it did last week, with increases to employer's National Insurance...
3/31/2025 12:00:00 AM Retirement of a partner was unjustified direct age discrimination By Frances Rollin A tribunal has recently found that a law firm directly discriminated against an equity partner because of his age by denying his request...
3/31/2025 12:00:00 AM April 2025: Changes to rates and limits for statutory payments and tribunal awards By Phoebe Starbuck April 2025 sees an increase in a number of rates and limits of relevance to employers, including national minimum wage, statutory sick...
3/31/2025 12:00:00 AM Reverse engineering, the CDPA 1988, third party liability and limitation in the case of IBM United Kingdom Ltd v LzLabs GmbH & Ors By Sophie Ashcroft The case concerned a platform known as the Software Defined Mainframe (SDM) which was developed by the First Defendant, Swiss company...
3/31/2025 12:00:00 AM Out of the comfort zone: IDBI Bank v Axcel Sunshine and Siva Industries and Holdings By Andrew Dodds The recent case of IDBI Bank Limited v Axcel Sunshine Limited and Siva Industries and Holdings Limited [2025] EWHC 442 (Comm) considers...
3/31/2025 12:00:00 AM Unfair dismissal: The range of reasonable responses By Frances Rollin In Metroline Travel Ltd v Taylor, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) found that the employment tribunal had, in deciding that the...
3/27/2025 12:00:00 AM Does the Arbitration Act 2025 achieve its aim? By Catherine Penny The Arbitration Act, which received Royal Assent on 24 February 2025, updates the UK legislative framework for arbitration. A key...
3/25/2025 12:00:00 AM Indirect sex discrimination: new requirement to travel By Chantelle de Filippis In the recent ruling of Marston (Holdings) Ltd v Mrs Perkins, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered if an employee had been...
3/24/2025 10:49:00 AM John Sisk and Son Limited v Capital & Centric (Rose) Limited By Claire Kilpatrick Whose risk is it? Construction contracts invariably include a number of technical and commercial contract documents in addition to the...
3/21/2025 12:00:00 AM Advising on investment in OCL Vision Group Ltd By Jenny Robertson The Stevens & Bolton corporate team has advised OCL Vision Group Ltd (OCL Vision) on an investment by BGF Investment Management Limited,...
3/20/2025 5:14:25 PM ACSP registration now live (amongst other things) By Stevens & Bolton LLP On 18 March 2025, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Commencement No.4) Regulations 2025 (Fourth Commencement...
3/20/2025 10:09:23 AM Justice served: son exposes sister's coercion in £700,000 estate battle By Stevens & Bolton LLP In this recent court case, electrician John Baverstock successfully contested a will that left him disinherited from his mother's...