Personal Law Updates

Jan

2021

Confidentiality and non-disparagement agreements really work

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

It is fashionable in some quarters to view confidentiality and non-disparagement agreements entered into by departing employees as impinging on freedom of expression. As a High Court case showed, however, they are an effective means of securing both...

Jan

2021

COVID-19 – Ruling underlines desperate impact on care home residents

Written by Tracy Creed

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, it is becoming increasingly hard to see where the balance of harm lies between the risk of exposing care home residents to a life-threatening virus and compromising their most basic quality of life. The Court of...

Nov

2020

Positive steps to heal under lockdown

Written by Mauro Vinti

These are unprecedented times and we are all learning new rules to deal with day to day life and how to live with each other. Family life goes on and the family team at Sydney Mitchell has worked throughout the pandemic. We have faced new ways of...

Oct

2020

Thinking of Personally Guaranteeing a corporate loan? See a lawyer first

Written by Leanne Schneide...

Businesspeople who personally guarantee corporate loans always act with hope in their hearts. However, as one case showed, they should be under no illusions as to the potentially dire consequences of doing so and should never take such a step...

Sep

2020

New: Job Support Scheme from November 2020

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

After much anticipation amongst employers and employees across all industries, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has set out the governments new job support scheme in a statement made at the House of Commons on 24 September. This scheme is due to start in...

Sep

2020

UK government's new work from home advice explained

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

Following in from the PM’s announcement on 22 September many employers will now have to look ahead at the next 6 months with employees working from home again. Boris Johnson has again urged office workers to work from home “if they can.” A lot of...

Sep

2020

Unfair Dismissal and Discrimination – EAT confronts different legal tests

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

Different legal tests apply to unfair dismissal and discrimination claims and that can sometimes lead to surprising outcomes. That was certainly so in a case where an Employment Tribunal (ET) found that a supermarket till operator had suffered...

Sep

2020

Pregnancy sick leave – Woman awarded damages for insensitive treatment

Written by Sydney Mitchell

Workers on sick leave are entitled to be treated sensitively by their employers and all the more so where their health difficulties are pregnancy related. In the following case, this did not happen. A social worker who was treated in an abrupt and...

Sep

2020

Deductions from Pay and the National Minimum Wage – Guideline Ruling

Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

Are 'deductions' from workers' pay in respect of living accommodation and training costs to be viewed as 'reductions' capable of bringing their remuneration below the National Minimum Wage (NMW)? The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) addressed this...

Sep

2020

Confidential data leaked to a competitor? Consult a lawyer today

Written by Dean Parnell

Technical data and know-how are the crown jewels of many businesses but there is an ever-present risk of them being leaked to competitors by disloyal employees. As a High Court case showed, however, victims of such deceit are, with the right legal...

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Personal Law Updates

Confidentiality and non-disparagement agreements really work

COVID-19 – Ruling underlines desperate impact on care home residents

Positive steps to heal under lockdown

Thinking of Personally Guaranteeing a corporate loan? See a lawyer first

New: Job Support Scheme from November 2020

UK government's new work from home advice explained

Unfair Dismissal and Discrimination – EAT confronts different legal tests

Pregnancy sick leave – Woman awarded damages for insensitive treatment

Deductions from Pay and the National Minimum Wage – Guideline Ruling

Confidential data leaked to a competitor? Consult a lawyer today

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