Insights

22nd June 2017

In this article Steve Conlay looks at the complicated area of trade union recognition and why a recent case involving Lidl supermarket has made it harder for employers to refuse to recognise trade unions.

21st June 2017

Wednesday 21st June, 2017 saw the reopening of Parliament after the General Election and, rather than laying out the Government’s statutory programme for the next 12 months, Her Majesty The Queen announced two years’ worth of proposed legislation.

20th June 2017

Iain Garfield discusses requisitioning or compulsorily purchasing 'land-banked' homes under the European Convention on Human Rights and how it may be changed post-Brexit

19th June 2017

This Friday will mark one year since the historic day when the populace of the UK and Gibraltar voted to leave the European Union. And today, 82 days after the Prime Minister formally triggered the process under the infamous ‘Article 50’, formal Brexit negotiations finally begin.

15th June 2017

The issue of ‘experts’ has arisen in relation to the General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into force in May 2018 in place of the Data Protection Act. Proclaiming oneself as a GDPR consultant seems to be the latest fad and, whilst there are undoubtedly GDPR experts amongst them, not all of them are what they seem.

13th June 2017

With a hung parliament, it’s clear that this snap election campaign hasn’t gone as Theresa May had hoped, but what does this result mean for Gloucestershire’s businesses? John Workman, senior partner at BPE Solicitors looks at the likely impacts.