Women and men who do comparable jobs for the same employer have for decades been entitled to equal pay – but the basis on which such comparisons can be made has been a perennial subject
Suspicions that your employees are using your confidential information and time that you have paid for to plot their next career move are sadly often justified. However, as a High Court case showed, specialist solicitors
Those who engage in joint ventures necessarily submit to an element of communal decision-making and must take the rough with the smooth if things go wrong. The Court of Appeal made that point in apportioning
There is a clear public interest in those who work with children or vulnerable adults being required to submit to criminal record checks – but how old, or minor, do their convictions have to be
Minority shareholders may have limited influence, but they do have rights and, when their interests are unfairly prejudiced by the conduct of the majority, the courts have a full range of powers to ensure that
Some social media users persist in the belief that they can hide behind anonymity and publish false and wounding accusations online with complete impunity. The falsity of such assumptions was, however, laid bare by a
The Government has published a consultation paper on its plans to enhance protection from redundancy for pregnant women and new parents returning to work. This follows a recommendation in the 2017 Taylor Review of Modern
How is the urgent requirement for more new homes to be balanced against the need to preserve heritage assets? The High Court addressed that issue in overturning planning consent for a proposed housing development with
Solicitors help all sorts of people establish all sorts of rights and their services are not restricted to the well-heeled. In a good example, lawyers won a point of principle on behalf of a dyslexic
Professional drafting of any legal agreement really does make good sense and that is doubly so when the subject matter is an interest in land. The point was made by a case in which informal
