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Business Development: Playing The Right Card
Leor Franks
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?
25 April 2017
Religion, Veils and Equality Law
UK equality laws, democracy and our largely tolerant multi-cultural society are precious and it is time we stopped paying attention to headlines and focused a bit more on legal accuracy. Without a clear understanding of where we are, it is impossible to make rational decisions on how to move forward at home and at work.
20 April 2017
Data Protection – even MORE practical guidance from recent case law on subject access requests
Last month we blogged on two recent cases which collated practical guidance from the courts on subject access requests (“SARs”) and foreshadowed another Court of Appeal decision on the same topic.
7 April 2017
Live well for [doing] less? Not for one Sainsbury’s employee…
We all know that if you do something seriously wrong at work, you could be dismissed summarily for gross misconduct. But what about if, instead of doing something wrong, you simply fail to do something right; you fail to act? Can this amount to gross misconduct too?
In Adesokan v Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited, the Court of Appeal considered just this issue.
5 April 2017
A case on service of a Notice to terminate a Contract of Employment … and yes, it's interesting!
Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust v Sandi Hayward. Surprisingly this case was a most enjoyable read. In many ways it was a journey back to yester-year when there were so many decisions that turned on when letters may or may not have been delivered or received, with significant consequences turning upon the results. By and large there are far fewer decisions in this respect since the advent, and almost universal usage, of email.