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Business Development: Playing The Right Card
Leor Franks
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reform of tribunals as an opportunity to improve the allocation of work, to modernise tribunal buildings and to develop outdated IT systems, bringing them into line with current practices.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.
23 February 2016
The questions around holiday pay live to fight another day
We reported last week on the Scottish case of Barton and noted that the arrival of the decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) in Lock v British Gas may bring employers and employees closer to an answer to the elusive question of how to calculate holiday pay. That much anticipated judgment is now here, but it seems to have done nothing more than kick the can down the road.
18 February 2016
Case Update – Claimants beware in cases with several potential defendants
The High Court case of Vanden Recycling Ltd v Tumulty and others serves as a warning for employers who bring claims against more than one defendant to take care that settlement does not extinguish claims against any other defendants.