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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
5 April 2016
Peninsula Business Services v Donaldson: Childcare Vouchers not a “Benefit” says EAT
Childcare vouchers are a fundamental benefit for many working parents throughout the country, enabling them to save up to £933 each year. The scheme is largely regarded as mutually beneficial, with the employee benefitting from tax-free childcare and the employer retaining more women in the workplace.
24 March 2016
Mohamud v Morrison Supermarkets plc & Cox v MoJ
On 10 September 2007, a prisoner working in the kitchens of HM Prison Swansea negligently dropped a sack of rice onto the back of Mrs Cox, causing her injury. On 15 March 2008, in a totally unrelated incident, a Morrisons petrol station employee carried out a brutal and seemingly racially motivated attack on Mr Muhammed in response to a request to print some documents from a memory stick. On 12 October 2015, five justices of the Supreme Court heard submissions relating to both incidents and, five months later, gave complementary judgements clarifying the apparently inevitably imprecise law of vicarious liability.
8 March 2016
Senior President of Tribunals’ Annual Report 2016 - Fees, fair representation and a digitised future
Times are changing. That is the resounding theme of the 2016 Senior President of Tribunals’ Annual Report. Sir Ernest Ryder, newly appointed Senior President, views the £700 million of Government funding promised for the reform of tribunals as an opportunity to improve the allocation of work, to modernise tribunal buildings and to develop outdated IT systems, bringing them into line with current practices. These changes should increase judicial efficiency and, as a result, facilitate greater access to justice. “Digital by default” is the direction provided by Sir Ryder, heralding the roll out of laptops, tablets and mobile phones to tribunals and members of the judiciary.
7 March 2016
Strengthening accountability in banking: Senior Managers and Certification Regime now in force
Today, 7 March 2016, is the day when the Senior Managers and Certification Regime enters into force. Whilst we have already passed a numbers of staging posts along the way - and deadlines are set into next year and beyond for the Certification regime–today should mark the introduction of a culture shift in banking. Louise Hodges and Adrian Crawford examine this new focus on personal responsibility and individual accountability at the highest levels and what it might mean for Senior Managers and also mid-level employees under the Certification Regime.
2 March 2016
Press stop on poor mobile working practices
As the use of mobile devices by employees increases, so too do the risks to businesses of data breaches and a failure to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 (“DPA”).
The Information Commissioner believes that ever more popular mobile working practices will enhance both the “potential attack surface” for hackers and the risk of data breaches. The DPA requires data controllers to take “appropriate technical and organisational measures…against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data”.
This article first appeared on www.realbusiness.co.uk in March 2016.