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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
3 July 2019
Reflective practice: benefits and a welcome reassurance
The eight healthcare regulators have issued a joint statement to encourage practitioners to engage and adopt reflective practice in a useful and meaningful way. The statement, which can be found here, has also been produced to try to allay any remaining fears that, following the Bawa-Garba case, reflective pieces will be held against practitioners in fitness to practise proceedings. Shannett Thompson and Claire Parry share a useful reminder and welcomed reassurance in support of reflective practice.
19 June 2019
A step too far – a warning for Private Prosecutors
We have previously written on the matter of likelihood of cost recovery in respect of private prosecutions, but return to this topic in light of the recent decision Re Somaia v Lord Chancellor [2019] EWHC 1227 (QB).
17 June 2019
Lawyers must fix the problems with gagging orders before it is too late
The confusion must be cleared away and guidance established if these deals are to remain trusted and useful, writes Iain Miller for The Brief.
10 June 2019
SRA Price Transparency: Review confirms nearly 1 in 5 firms not complying at all
The SRA’s Price Transparency Rules (‘the Rules’) came into force on 6 December 2018, following which, in in February 2019, the SRA has published a ‘topic guide’ setting out its approach to enforcement of the Rules. One ‘proactive tool’ in the SRA’s toolkit to assist it in the identification of non-compliance, is ‘random web sweeps.’
7 June 2019
Government launches consultation on building and fire safety reforms
On 6 June the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government launched a consultation on building and fire safety regulation. The consultation ‘Building a Safer Future: Proposals for reform in the building safety regulatory system’ is the fourth since Dame Hackitt’s Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety in which she made 53 recommendations, all of which were accepted by the government. Hackitt’s review concluded that the current system for ensuring fire safety in high rise buildings was not fit for purpose and recommended a new regulatory framework
