An employment tribunal has awarded £470K to a dyslexic employee after his discriminatory and unfair dismissal for using a racial slur in a race awareness training session...

An employer had not discriminated against a disabled employee when it failed to adjust its promotion selection process on account of his stammer. Although the employer knew that the employee was...

On 12 December 2023, the Senior Coroner for Berkshire issued a Report to Prevent Future Deaths (PFD) to Ofsted, Reading Borough Council and the Department for Education (DfE) following the...

The sudden and unexplained deaths of children (SUDC) represent an incomprehensible tragedy, leaving families devastated and grappling with profound grief. Inquests into such cases are inherently...

Imagine a time when your digital footprint is a 3D representation of you, which owns valuable digital fashion, digital land, stores countless digital memories and has a digitally recorded ...

Research published by Unison last week found that 30% of women working in the public sector (including the NHS) have had their flexible working requests denied, with 25% of those workers having...

Finality and ease of enforcement of arbitral awards have long been considered a major advantage of international arbitration. At the same time, it is also recognized that challenges to awards must...

The increasing use of electric vehicles (EVs) globally in the past decade has led to a rise in the number of EVs being transported by sea, resulting in a growing concern about the associated risks...

The Chief Coroner’s Extraordinary Report on the impact of the reforms of the coroner service, 10 years post-reform, was published on 11 January 2024...

The recent case VT -v- NHS Cambridgeshire And Peterborough Integrated Care Board & Anor [2024] EWHC 294 (Fam) (14 February 2024) considered whether it was appropriate to make final...

We're pleased to welcome corporate partner James Harmer to our London office where his specialism in debt capital market transactions will complement and enhance our existing corporate offering

Two recent reviews highlight the need for essential changes to be made within the prison services healthcare sector.
These reviews highlight issues that we see regularly in inquests where...