Department for Transport -v- Sparks and others
06 May 2016
The Court of Appeal held that an absence management policy was incorporated into the employees’ contract of employment.
06 May 2016
The Court of Appeal held that an absence management policy was incorporated into the employees’ contract of employment.
06 May 2016
International law firm Hill Dickinson has been named Legal Partner of the Year at the prestigious 2016 Claims Excellence Awards. The firm’s legacy team, comprising abuse and disease, collected the award at a ceremony held at The Brewery, London on Wednesday night (4 May).
03 May 2016
Can recreational rights exist as legal easements, running with the land? A High Court decision has recently provided clarity on a point which until this time had no previous authority.
03 May 2016
International law firm Hill Dickinson LLP celebrated double success at the Modern Claims Awards held at New Dock Hall, Leeds last Thursday (28 April). Senior associate, Hayley Riach, won the Rising Star Award and the firm’s legacy team, comprising abuse, social care and disease, was awarded highly commended in their shortlisted category, Legal Team of the Year.
20 April 2016
Recent developments in landlord and tenant law concerning the position of the outgoing tenant’s guarantor on the assignment of the lease can only be described as ‘bonkers’. A few years ago, the Good Harvest and House of Fraser cases confirmed that a parent company could not guarantee both of its subsidiaries on an intra-group assignment. Last month, in the EMI case, the High Court has confirmed that the assignment of a lease to the tenant’s guarantor is similarly void.
20 April 2016
International law firm Hill Dickinson has been re-appointed to the North West Legal Consortium’s £10m legal panel following a competitive tender process. In so doing the firm has also been awarded coveted partner status – one of only four law firms to be given such a position.
18 April 2016
The draft Public Sector Exit Payment Regulations 2016 are intended to allow for the recovery of public sector exit payments when a high earner returns to the public sector shortly after leaving.
16 April 2016
Acting for a US private equity firm (the 'investor'), the Hong Kong office of international law firm Hill Dickinson has recently secured a significant judgment from the High Court of Hong Kong for substantial damages (over US$15 million) against a former director of a PRC based security monitoring services provider, China Alarm Holdings Limited ('CAHL').
14 April 2016
For several years uncertainty prevailed over whether the European Parliament would ever pass the General Data Protection Regulation. The wait is over. The Regulation has now been approved by MEPs. Andrew Hill and Andrew Schütte review.
12 April 2016
Following the Government’s announcement back in October 2015 of its intention to make permanent the temporary permitted development rights to convert offices to dwellings, the Government has made the necessary regulations to effect the change in the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2016 (the Order).
08 April 2016
Yesterday, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) confirmed in the case of Wasteney –v- East London NHS Foundation Trust EAT 0157/15 that an evangelical ‘born again’ Christian worker accused of ‘grooming’ a female Muslim member of staff had not been discriminated against nor had she been harassed by her employer on the grounds of her religion or belief when disciplined for imposing her religious views.
07 April 2016
It is usual for outgoing tenants under commercial leases to remain liable for the default of the incoming tenant to whom they assign the lease, but the recent case of Lee v Sommer serves as a timely reminder to former tenants to fully assess their liability (and take professional advice) before settling any demands received from their former landlord.