Aug 31, 2023 Employment & Pensions Blog: Reasonable adjustments for job applicants By Devonshires In AECOM v Mallon, the EAT has held an employer does not need to know the specifics of a disabled person’s substantial disadvantage in...
Aug 30, 2023 First-Tier Tribunal decides first Remediation Order under the Building Safety Act 2022 By Will O'Brien Mark London, Matthew Cocklin, Lee Russell and Mark Foxcroft review the decision in detail. Earlier this month, the First Tier Tribunal...
Aug 30, 2023 New FTT Decision on the Liability of Costs for a Waking Watch By Zoe McLean-Wells The case of Radcliffe Investment Properties Ltd v Meeson [2023] UKUT 209 (LC) (22 August 2023) held that the First Tier Tribunal (‘FTT’)...
Aug 29, 2023 Government announces plans to unblock housing development and to do away with "defective EU laws" relating to nutrient neutrality By Hannah Langford Michael Gove and Therese Coffey announcement on nutrient neutrality has just been announced: 100,000 more homes to be built via reform of...
Aug 25, 2023 RAAC - The air-infused material threatening to bring down public buildings By Will O'Brien Ever since London’s Grenfell Tower fire, building and fire safety in the UK has been focused on cladding. Sadly, another safety issue is...
Aug 24, 2023 The upcoming Tomorrow’s Net Zero conference By Devonshires We are excited to be hosting a Networking Breakfast as part of the programme for the “Tomorrow’s Net Zero” Conference, scheduled in...
Aug 24, 2023 Employment & Pensions Blog: Women's football and a reminder of equal pay principles By Devonshires With the Women’s World Cup 2023 coming to an end last week, there has been a number of headlines about unequal pay in football. Whilst...
Aug 18, 2023 DLUHC finally publishes the new HRB Building Control Regulations and its Response to the 2022 Consultation on reforming the regime By Asif Patel Sasha Pirbhai Tom Humphrey Asif Patel, Sasha Pirbhai and Tom Humphrey give an initial overview of this significant legislative development. Almost 16 months have...
Aug 17, 2023 D-BRIEF – Employment & Pensions Blog: ACAS sickness absence guidance By Katie Maguire ACAS has recently updated its guidance on managing sickness and other types of absence in the workplace. The updated guidance ACAS have...
Aug 17, 2023 Government announces inquiry regarding shared home ownership schemes By Dominic Bauers On 19th July the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee (a cross-party Commons Select Committee of MPs) announced an inquiry to...
Aug 16, 2023 Countdown to Section 156 Building Safety Act – amendments to the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order By Will O'Brien Section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022 makes a number of amendments to the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 to improve...
Aug 16, 2023 Ombudsman urges Councils to do more to tackle ASB By Victoria Smith The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) has today published a report urging those on the frontline of tackling antisocial...