Accountant's Liability By Richard Highley The Accountant's Liability Collection brings you topical news and insight of interest to accountants, actuaries, trustees and other financial professionals and their professional indemnity insurers.
Autonomous Driving By Peter Allchorne What is a Collection? A Collection is a selection of features, articles, comments and opinions on any given theme or topic. It allows you to stay up-to-date with what interests you most, by collecting everything into useful packages. A Collection…
Aviation By Alex Stovold Topical news and insights of interest to aviation insurers and industry stakeholders on key strategic, commercial and regulatory developments.
Banking and finance dispute resolution By Jonathan Brogden For the latest news and comment on banking and finance disputes.
Brexit: practical implications By Mathew Rutter Our views and guidance on the implications of Brexit for the business community.
Charities This collection looks at the latest news and comment on charities. What is a Collection? A Collection is a selection of features, articles, comments and opinions on any given theme or topic. It allows you to stay up-to-date with what interests…
Clinical negligence By Nigel Montgomery For all the latest news and comment in clinical negligence healthcare law
Clinical regulatory By Corinne Slingo For all the latest news and comment in clinical regulatory healthcare law
Commercial health By Anne Crofts This collection looks at the latest news and comment on commercial contracting healthcare law. With the health and social care sector under pressure to generate efficiencies, individual organisations must look at how they commission and deliver…
Construction Risks By Mark Roach Welcome to the Construction Risks collection. This space is used to report upon issues of interest to those who seek to allocate, manage and reduce construction risks on behalf of contractors, as well as insurers of construction risks.
1954 Act Lesson for Operators: with Reform on the Horizon what does the recent case of Pippingford teach us about the Code? By Clare Hartley The latest in a long line of decisions each contributing, in their turn, some much needed additional clarification for operators and site providers alike, comes not from the Upper Tribunal and the Electronic Communications Code (referred to simply…
Seeking a contribution: Scotland v England and Wales By Rachel Rough The legal system in Scotland compared to England and Wales provides many differences. For example, how do contribution claims operate north and south of the border?
Strengthening the position for public authorities – Tindall v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police [CoA January 2022] By David Knapp We have recently written on HXA v Surrey and YXA v Wolverhampton (link attached), which added to the line of cases confirming that no general duty is owed by the public sector to protect one individual from harm by another. We have now secured the…
Motor Liability in 2021 By Peter Allchorne 2021 has provided a bumper crop of motor liability cases and in this retrospective we bring together in one place a number of the most significant and the more interesting decisions.
COVID-19: New implementation guidance on the Mandatory Vaccination Regulations in the health and care sector By Joanne Bell NHS England have published further guidance on the implementation of the new Regulations mandating COVID-19 vaccination in the healthcare sector (dated 14 January 2022) (please see our earlier alert) . This guidance on vaccination as a…
The High Court re-confirms the test in negligence between sporting competitors By Richard Rowe “You don't have to be Einstein to see that horse racing is dangerous.” So said National Hunt jockey Tony McCoy (now Sir Anthony McCoy), and if anyone should know it’s him. In a career in which he rode 4,358 winners, and was Champion Jockey a…
Employment Matters - January 2022 - Health By Hilary Larter A very happy new year to all our readers. We hope you had an enjoyable Christmas break and stayed well. Our pick of this month’s developments are below.
Employment Matters - January 2022 By Hilary Larter A very happy new year to all our readers. We hope you had an enjoyable Christmas break and stayed well. Our pick of this month’s developments are below.
Maintaining high professional standards: Disclosure of documents relating to internal investigations By Hilary Larter The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court judgment that a neurosurgeon who was subject to an internal investigation did not have the right to see all documents relating to the investigation, only communications sent from one person to another.
Employment status: Director and 40% shareholder was not an employee or worker By Hilary Larter The EAT has upheld a tribunal’s decision that a director who was also a 40% shareholder and received payments described as “salary” was neither an employee nor a worker.
