What is the "culture" of a business? How would employees describe it?...
As reports of violence, extremism and endemic corruption across the world seem an everyday occurrence a perplexed business executive, who knows that there is a big world out there to do business in, may ask where on earth can I safely travel and where can I confidently do any business?...
In Nayak v Royal Mail Group, the EAT upheld the tribunal’s decision that an employer’s genuine and reasonable belief that an employee was no longer permitted to work in the UK was sufficient to show that he had been dismissed for some other substantial reason (SOSR)....
The EAT has held in Wasteney v East London NHS Foundation Trust that a Christian senior manager was not discriminated against when she was subjected to disciplinary proceedings for imposing her religious views on a Muslim junior employee....
One of the main objectives of Clarkslegal’s dispute resolution team is to help our clients resolve their disputes as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. A constant pressure we have to factor into our service is the increasing cost of resolving disputes as successive governments seek to increase Court fees....
It is not often that public procurement contract awards are debated in Parliament or grab the headlines, but that is exactly what happened after the recent decision by the Cabinet office to appoint the French medal manufacturer, Arthus-Betrand, to a framework agreement for the “supply of medals and insignia which are presented by, or on behalf of The Queen, at various times throughout the year”....
The recent case of Bartholomews Agri Food v Thornton has provided some useful guidance to employers who wish to rely on restrictive covenants when an employee leaves. ...
In the recent case of Ajaj v Metroline West Ltd UKEAT/018/15/RN an employee who disingenuously claimed to be unfit to attend work was held to be dishonest and had fundamentally breached the trust and confidence of the employee/employer relationship....
Clarkslegal has successfully advised on the sale of two Holiday Inn Express hotels in multi-million pound transactions. ...
Clarkslegal, led by Corporate Partner, Ashan Arif, has successfully advised the shareholders of Siracom Limited on the sale of the company to Exertis UK....
It was widely reported, earlier this month, that a Scottish company, Braid Logistics (UK) Limited, had agreed to pay some £2.2m to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s civil recovery unit by way of an agreed civil settlement, having accepted that it had obtained business through unlawful conduct. ...
Most franchises operate from retail premises and the franchisor will often take a superior lease interest and then grant the franchisee a lease or licence from it. ...
From 17 March 2016 SDLT on commercial properties was brought in line with the residential system, whereby, the SDLT will now be charged at a variety of rates according to the portion of the total consideration that falls within each of the respective bands. ...
With the coming into force of the Insurance Act 2015 just around the corner – August 2016 – it was perhaps an appropriate time for the first case to consider the meaning of the phrase “deliberate... non-disclosure” in an insurance policy....
There was little of direct interest in the 2016 Budget for construction practitioners, but the following themes were developed by the Chancellor and will have implications for those involved in the construction industry:...
JCT will shortly be publishing its new 2016 edition suite of contracts. ...
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) recently revisited the issue of whether an employee’s disclosure was made in the public interest. ...
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld a decision that contacting an employee to raise non-urgent concerns while they were off sick amounted to a repudiatory breach of contract. ...
Employers who hold a Tier 2 sponsor licence can sponsor employees who are from outside of the European Economic Area by assigning a certificate of sponsorship (CoS) to them....
Firstly, what do we mean by Brexit? Although the question that the electorate will answer on 23 June 2016 is simply framed – “should the UK remain a member of the EU or leave the EU?” – the ramifications of an “out vote” will be anything but simple....