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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
26 June 2017
Data Protection – 10 further top tips for responding to subject access requests
Not long ago, we distilled a series of recent cases and produced practical guidance (see here and here) for employers on dealing with subject access requests under the Data Protection Act 1998 (“SARs”). These blogs were intended to complement our earlier blog “Top 10 tips for responding to a subject access request”, which was prepared with the Information Commissioner’s (“ICO”) original code of practice in mind. That code of practice has now been re-issued in light of the recent guidance from the courts and can be found on the ICO’s website here. The code itself is lengthy and detailed, but in this blog, we have picked out another top 10 tips from the most useful and practical additions to the revised code.
1 June 2017
FCA and PRA regulatory references - what do the new rules mean in practice?
Earlier this year, the FCA and PRA published new rules regarding regulatory references. Banks, insurers, building societies, credit unions and PRA-designated investment firms (“firms”) are now required to take “reasonable steps” to obtain “appropriate references” for candidates subject to the Senior Managers and Certification Regimes, and their insurance equivalents. The purpose of these rules is to guard against employees with poor conduct records moving freely from one regulated firm to another…so-called “rolling bad apples”. However, their application is proving somewhat problematic.
19 May 2017
Indirect discrimination clarified - could your policies and practices be discriminatory?
The recent Supreme Court decision in the conjoined cases of Essop and Naeem has helped to clarify the scope of indirect discrimination by confirming that Claimants do not need to prove the reason behind a disadvantage suffered as a result of a provision, criterion or practice (PCP).
10 May 2017
Race discrimination in the Police – incompetent grievance investigations do not automatically shift the burden of proof
PC Angus Bowler, an officer with 25 years’ service, brought several claims of unlawful direct under the Equality Act 2010, in particular race discrimination and victimisation, against Kent Constabulary in the Employment Tribunal.
4 May 2017
Diversity on the bench: time to wake up?
A record number of female MPs were elected to the House of Commons in 2015. In 2016 the second female Prime Minister assumed power, and in early 2017 a woman was appointed as the next Metropolitan Police Commissioner. Here at Kingsley Napley, the number of female partners now exceeds the number of male partners. As many institutions wake up to diversity, why is the UK’s judiciary still fast asleep?
