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Switching from RPI to CPI: still a live issue for pensions?

22 Aug 2019

Britvic is reportedly seeking court approval to change the measure used for calculating increases to pensions in payment from its defined benefit scheme, from the retail prices index (RPI) to the consumer prices index (CPI).

Gender stereotyping in advertising

14 Aug 2019

Regulatory consultant, Nicky Strong, comments on ASA’s recent rulings on gender stereotypes in advertising for Mondelez UK Ltd and Volkswagen Group UK Ltd

If you make decisions on paying death in service benefits…

18 Jul 2019

You will probably have noticed a decision yesterday on mainstream news services about the unmarried partner of an RAF Air Commodore winning the right to a potential survivor's benefit - even though she was still married to her former husband at the time of her partner's death.

EMA blinks first in Brexit lease frustration case

09 Jul 2019

What will employment tribunals look like in the future?

27 May 2019

Sir Ernest Ryder, Senior President of the Tribunals, published his strategy for the modernisation of tribunals in November 2018. He has followed this up with an Innovation Plan for tribunal reform in 2019-20, which is due to be implemented by May next year.

Brexit lease frustration case going to the Court of Appeal

13 May 2019

Industry 4.0 - take one step at a time

09 May 2019

Dwelling on my recent article about the widespread opportunities for manufacturing companies to embrace digitalisation and related conversations I have had with clients and contacts who are potential users of the many technology solutions that can help enhance the productivity of their businesses

Sleep-in case to be heard by Supreme Court

21 Feb 2019

Unison have announced that the Supreme Court has granted them permission to appeal against the Court of Appeal's decision in the combined cases of Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake v and Shannon v Rampersad and another (T/A Clifton House Residential Home).

High Court rules that the EMA's lease at Canary Wharf will not be frustrated by Brexit

20 Feb 2019

In a significant ruling today, Mr Justice Marcus Smith has decided that the European Medicines Agency's £13 million a year lease of premises at Canary Wharf will not be frustrated by Brexit. The decision will be a relief not only for the property industry but also for the UK economy as a whole.

Brexit: cliff-edge or cliff-hanger?

15 Feb 2019

The government's House of Commons defeat on 14 February may have sharpened divisions within the main political parties, but it changed nothing of substance. The legal position is governed by the terms of the EU (Withdrawal) Acts 2017 and 2018. The 2017 Act authorised the UK government to trigger the two year Article 50 notice period, which expires on 29 March 2019. The 2018 Act includes amendments conceded by the government to avert a Parliamentary defeat, and which locked in 11.00pm on 29 March 2019 as the "Exit day". Unless primary legislation is enacted to alter that position, the UK will cease to be a member state of the EU on that date, whether or not there is a "deal".

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