5/1/2025 7:59:55 AM Private prosecutions: What they are, how they work, and why they matter By Matthew Garbutt Private prosecutions are a little-known but powerful legal tool. They allow individuals or organisations to bring criminal proceedings...
4/30/2025 2:44:54 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: Government consultation on mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting By Chris Cuckney 30 March and 4 April are the annual reporting deadlines by which large employers have to report their gender pay gap information. As we...
4/25/2025 2:47:14 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: Government Crackdown on Illegal Working in the Gig Economy. By Chris Cuckney Most people are aware that there are severe consequences for employing someone who does not have the right to work in the UK. Employing...
4/25/2025 9:01:16 AM Act Fast or Face Prosecution: SFO’s New Corporate Guidance By Matthew Garbutt The Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") has issued new SFO External Guidance on Corporate Co-Operation and Enforcement in relation to Corporate...
3/21/2025 8:16:37 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: Indirect Discrimination and childcare disparity following Marston (Holdings) Ltd v Perkins By Chris Cuckney Indirect discrimination remains an important consideration for businesses who are looking to implement new workplace policies or ways of...
3/6/2025 9:01:32 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: Ramadan 2025: Supporting workers in the workplace By Chris Cuckney The holy month of Ramadan started on 28 February 2025 and will conclude on the evening of 30 March 2025. For millions of practicing...
2/26/2025 5:09:45 PM Government Responds to the Phase 2 Grenfell Inquiry Report By Mark London On 26 February 2025, in a Ministerial statement in the House of Commons, Angela Rayner commented on the Phase 2 report and noted that the...
2/21/2025 9:31:43 AM Employment & Pensions Blog: Withholding important information in job applications following Easton v Secretary of State for the Home Office By Chris Cuckney Most people know someone who has withheld information in their C.V. or job application that they’d rather not have to explain to a future...
2/12/2025 4:32:20 PM TPT Benefit Review at the High Court By Kirsty Thompson The court hearing for the case which will determine whether TPT pension schemes (including the Social Housing Pension Scheme and the...
2/12/2025 1:44:28 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: Managing competing protected characteristics in the workplace. By Chris Cuckney For the last two weeks a Scottish Employment Tribunal has been hearing the case of a female nurse who has brought claims against her...
2/5/2025 1:43:55 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: The data protection and privacy risks in using artificial intelligence in recruitment By Chris Cuckney In January 2025 the Government announced a plan to ‘unleash’ artificial intelligence (AI) across the UK to deliver systematic change. AI...
1/23/2025 2:38:22 PM Employment & Pensions Blog: With only 7 bank holidays in the annual leave year 2024/2025 – do your workers need to be given an extra day off? By Chris Cuckney Easter fell in March last year, and this year it isn’t until mid-April 2025. The effect of this is that there will only be 7 bank...