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.
UK Listings Review (2) – The Ten Most Important Recommendations to Improve UK Capital Markets. By Clive Garston The recommendations to the UK Listings Review led by Lord Hill were published yesterday, 3 March 2021. DAC Beachcroft had responded to the Call for Evidence and we are pleased to learn that a number of our recommendations have been considered and…
Employment Matters: Public Health - March 2021 By Hilary Larter DAC Beachcroft's Employment Matters focuses on some of the most interesting cases and events occurring within the Employment Law sector.
Employment Matters - March 2021 By Hilary Larter DAC Beachcroft's Employment Matters focuses on some of the most interesting cases and events occurring within the Employment Law sector.
Constructive Dismissal: Engaging in a grievance procedure does not undermine a constructive dismissal claim By Hilary Larter An ex-employee who had engaged in his employer’s grievance procedure before claiming constructive dismissal had not affirmed his employment contract
Confidential Information: The dangers of using information provided by new members of staff Employers receiving information from new staff members should question whether they are on notice that the information is confidential to the previous employer.
Indirect Discrimination: “Particular disadvantage” involves looking at those impacted by the policy By Hilary Larter When determining whether a policy was indirectly discriminatory against women because of their greater childcare responsibilities, a tribunal erred in considering that the policy applied equally to men and women. It should have considered whether…
Discrimination: “Stale” diversity training By Hilary Larter An employer’s diversity training had become stale and needed refreshing, leading the tribunal to reject the employer’s reasonable steps defence. BACKGROUND: An employer will not be liable for an employee’s discriminatory actions if the employer…
First Freeport locations announced By Neil Warwick Neil Warwick, partner at international law firm DAC Beachcroft, looks behind the headlines of the Government’s Budget announcement, which confirmed the location of eight freeports, with the announcement suggesting that these offer growth…
Budget 2021: New visas to attract highly skilled migrants and entrepreneurs By Shahjahan Ali As part of the Government’s plans to rebuild the UK economy, the Chancellor announced today further measures to modernise the UK’s immigration system. New measures will be implemented to attract and retain the most highly skilled individuals to…
Real Estate Tip of the Week: Who can Serve a notice? By Rosa-Maria Kane The answer to this question will be of interest to landlords and tenants alike. A landlord may wish to exercise a right to terminate a lease in order to implement a redevelopment scheme. Conversely, a tenant may wish to exercise a break option, or…
