Legal Article
27 Jan 2022
It is nigh on impossible to visit the website of any reasonable-sized construction company nowadays without seeing words like "sustainability", "ESG", and "social footprint". Historically used as mere buzz words to drive online traffic, environmental issues are increasingly…
Construction & Infrastructure
Legal Article
27 Jan 2022
Michael Gove has written a letter to the residential property developer industry requiring developers to agree a plan of action by early March including remediating unsafe cladding on 11-18 metre buildings, currently estimated to be £4 billion. Developers are warned that they must pay to fix the…
Construction & Infrastructure
Legal Article
27 Jan 2022
It has recently been reported that two single sex schools, within the Girls' Day School Trust, have changed their admissions policy and will only be admitting pupils based on their legal sex, recorded on their birth certificate, rather than their gender identity. The decision has been taken in order…
Education
Legal Article
26 Jan 2022
During the pandemic, many employers have found difficulty in monitoring absence and taking formal action where employees are absent for significant periods of time. There are growing concerns regarding the severity and longevity of the effects of the virus; thus, many employers feel unable to enforce a…
Employment & HR
Legal Article
26 Jan 2022
As more and more disputes arise it is important to consider alternatives to the traditional method of dispute resolution, not only for economical reasons but also for quicker swifter solutions which in some instances are far beyond the scope of what the Court may be able to order. Why are we facing…
Construction & Infrastructure
Legal Article
26 Jan 2022
The Home Office has announced that from 6 April 2022, there will be changes to the way in which Biometric Residence Permit (BRP), Biometric Residence Card (BRC) and Frontier Worker Permit (FWP) evidence their right to work and right to rent. From 6 April 2022, the presentation of a physical…
Employment & HR
Legal Article
26 Jan 2022
The Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (legislation.gov.uk) come into force on the 6 April 2022. The duty to provide PPE remains the same, but the 2022 regulations widen the scope of which workers an employer has to provide PPE for, to now include not just…
Insurance
Legal Article
26 Jan 2022
A care home business, run by private health care provider BUPA, has been fined £1.04m after a resident died in a fire while smoking at one of its care homes. BUPA Care Services (ANS) Ltd was fined £937,500 for fire safety failings and ordered to pay £104,000 prosecution costs at…
Insurance
Legal Article
26 Jan 2022
HC-One Limited has been fined following an incident when a resident choked to death on a jam doughnut. A resident of Orchard Care Home, Lychgate Road, Tullibody, was given a piece of jam doughnut to eat on 7 August 2019. The resident had previously suffered from a stroke and had been diagnosed with…
Insurance
Legal Article
26 Jan 2022
The Court of Appeal has just handed down a judgement in the case of Chell v Tarmac . Mr Chell was contracted to work at Tarmac as a fitter. Tensions arose between Mr Chell and fitters employed by Tarmac. One of the fitters decided to play a trick on him, by putting two explosive pellets on a bench…
Personal Injury
