6/18/2025 12:57:34 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: Employment Appeal Tribunal: External HR Consultants can be personally liable when acting as agents of the employer By Chris Cuckney It is more common than most people might think for companies to appoint external consultants to carry out investigations. For example, if...
6/12/2025 10:20:37 AM APP Fraud Meets AI: A Smarter Threat Needs a Smarter Response By Isabel Keefe Authorised Push Payment (“APP”) fraud is where an account holder, often a consumer, is tricked into authorising a bank transfer to a...
6/11/2025 3:56:37 PM Spending Review marks a big renewal for housing in the UK By Triya Maicha Jonathan Corris Ben Halsey The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, presented her 2025 Spending Review (SR25) to Parliament today and, on the face of things, it was very good...
6/11/2025 12:24:21 PM Consumer Credit Reform: What housing associations need to know By Alice Overton Amirah Adekunle-Fowora The government's long-promised overhaul of UK consumer credit regulation has commenced. It wants to modernise this now overly complex...
6/10/2025 5:20:24 PM Carers Week 9 – 15 June 2025: Caring About Equality By Chris Cuckney Carers Week is an annual event designed to highlight the challenges faced by carers and highlight the vital role they play in families...
5/29/2025 9:04:47 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: The ‘all reasonable steps’ defence following Mr Campbell v 1) Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & 2) Mr Wesley Hammond By Chris Cuckney Under the Equality Act 2010, an employer is liable for the discriminatory acts of its employees if those acts are done during the course...
5/27/2025 12:46:17 PM Learning from retail cyberattacks - our practical cybersecurity tips By Hetal Ruparelia Georgia Maskell The recent cyberattack on retail giant Marks & Spencer serves as a stark reminder of the escalating digital threats facing organisations...
5/23/2025 1:40:14 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: The Government’s White Paper on “Restoring Control over the UK Immigration System” By Chris Cuckney In response to growing public and political concerns that the current levels of legal migration are sustainable, last week the Government...
5/16/2025 12:25:38 PM New London Plan Consultation is now live By Hannah Langford Camilla Weston Ben Halsey The Greater London Authority (GLA) has published its formal consultation document, ‘Towards a New London Plan’, asking stakeholders and...
5/15/2025 9:11:37 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: EHRC Publishes Important Guidance on Single Sex Facilities Following the Supreme Court’s Decision on the Definition of “Sex” By Chris Cuckney Few can have missed the Supreme Court’s recent judgment that “sex” and “woman” under the Equality Act 2010 (EqA) means “biological sex.”...
5/14/2025 6:12:23 AM FCA consumer credit reporting changes for some regulated activities By Alice Overton Amirah Adekunle-Fowora Last week the FCA confirmed its plans to introduce a new regulatory return for consumer credit firms who engage in certain regulated...
5/6/2025 2:29:51 PM Procedural Unfairness in the First-tier Tribunal By Shadale Miller-Guy Zoe McLean-Wells The Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) (‘the UT’) has recently ruled in two cases which dealt with unfair procedures adopted by the First...