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Regulating NHS provider-owned companies – our response to NHS Improvement
We previously updated clients concerning NHS Improvement’s (“NHSI”) consultation regarding NHS provider-owned subsidiaries. NHSI’s latest proposals wo ...
Real Estate Tip of the Week: Make No Mistake – Rectification of Leases
A landlord who inadvertently granted a 2,000 year lease, instead of the intended one year term with two options to renew, has succeeded in getting his ...
Case alert: High Court rejects challenge to CCGs' policy favouring cheaper, unlicensed drug
In the recent case of Bayer Plc and Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd v NHS Darlington CCG and Oths [2018] EWHC 2465 (Admin), Whipple J rejected an appl ...
Law Commission launches automated vehicle consultation
The Law Commission of England & Wales and the Scottish Law Commission have, at the behest of the Department for Transport’s Centre for Connected a ...
Employment Matters - November 2018
DAC Beachcroft's Employment Matters November 2018 focuses on some of the most interesting cases and events occurring within the Employment Law sector. ...
EU Settlement Scheme: Helping you support EU staff
The Government has announced that the majority of employees working in the Health and Social Care sector will be able to apply for settled status unde ...
Data Protection: Employer vicariously liable for a rogue employee's internet disclosure of 100,00 employees' personal information
The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court decision that Morrisons was vicariously liable in damages for a data protection breach by a rogue employee ...
Holiday Pay: Employers need to show they have encouraged their workers to take the holiday they have accrued
In two co-joined German cases, the European Court of Justice has looked at the issue of when a worker, who does not apply for their holiday during the ...
Disability Discrimination: Despite a failure to issue job descriptions reflecting a disabled employee's adjusted duties, there was no discrimination
Although an employer had not issued job descriptions showing adjustments made to a disabled employee’s duties, the tribunal had correctly looked at th ...
