Insights

7th August 2017

Taking your children away for a few days may seem harmless, but separated or divorced parents may need to take some additional steps to ensure that everyone is kept in the loop and that they feel fully aware of the holiday plans.

4th August 2017

The extent and application of “fitness for purpose” obligations in construction contracts has again been before the Courts and on 3 August 2017 the Supreme Court handed down its judgment

3rd August 2017

BPE Solicitors has raised more than £20,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support following a 297-mile coast-to-coast walk from Lincolnshire to Dorset.

1st August 2017

On 13 July 2017, Parliament was presented with the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill for its first reading. You may already know about this bill. It was initially called the Great Repeal Bill by Theresa May’s Government. In its early days as a White Paper the bill promised a complete overhaul of the EU’s laws upon the UK’s exit of the Union in March 2019. However, the changes proposed on 13 July 2017 are not as far reaching as you may think, especially in relation to employment law.

1st August 2017

In this article, Sarah Lee considers a recent Court of Appeal case on whistle-blowing which decided that an Employment Tribunal should consider awarding long-term loss of earnings to a worker whose engagement was terminated because he made a protected disclosure because of the “stigma” he had suffered and the difficulty of finding another job, even though the worker did not claim these losses!

1st August 2017

In this article, Heyma Holmes reviews the case of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) v Bailey, a Court of Appeal case which concerned a police officer who claimed direct race discrimination and victimisation. The question asked of the court was “when an employee suffers a detriment which is inextricably linked to a protected act, is that detriment done because of the protected act?”