Smith -v- Gartner UK Limited
06 May 2016
There is no age discrimination where there is refusal to extend permanent health insurance (PHI) cover beyond the age of 60.
06 May 2016
There is no age discrimination where there is refusal to extend permanent health insurance (PHI) cover beyond the age of 60.
06 May 2016
The Court of Appeal had held that the High Court was entitled to increase the level of commission awarded to a sales person by an employer, and did not fail to have regard to the employer’s discretion in the matter.
06 May 2016
The Employment Appeals Tribunal has held that childcare vouchers provided under a salary sacrifice scheme are part of an employee’s ‘remuneration’ under Regulation 9 of the Maternity and Parental Leave Regulations.
06 May 2016
Previously the EAT held that to be a protected disclosure, the disclosure must involve information and not simply voice a concern or raise an allegation. In Kilraine -v- London Borough of Wandsworth however, the EAT noted that the legislation does not distinguish between information and an allegation, and the question is one of does it disclose information. In practise these are often intertwined.
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').