It's no surprise that there are more people in some form of self-employment than ever before. Even with questions over the status of...

In the Autumn Budget 2018 the Chancellor announced a number of  changes affecting employers: 

Minimum Wage Increase

From April...

The Intellectual Property Office and The Royal British Legion have announced that they are working in partnership with City of London...

As a general principle, yes they can.  Where a public body promises to do something and a person has reasonably relied on that...

The High Court ruled on Friday that pensions provided to members of the Lloyds Bank pension scheme who had contracted out of the State...

The House of Commons is considering a bill to extend shared parental leave to parents who are self employed. 

A demonstration took...

Youtube's CEO Susan Wojcicki has urged content creators to campaign against the controversial Copyright Directive proposed by the...

"Do not go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage against the dying of the light." So said Dylan Thomas. And Ford, who recently used a...

In February 2018 the Government announced plans to increase the immigration health surcharge. The surcharge is payable by all migrants...

There seem to have been a number of cases recently in which it has been successfully argued that the automatic suspension should stay in...

If you haven't already read the case and/or this Monckton Chambers note, then I advise doing so. 

The case focuses on the role of...

It looks like the door is gradually being closed on local authorities borrowing to invest in commercial property.  The MHCLG issued...

The consultation, announced by Communities Secretary Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP on 14 October, will run from 15 October until 26th...

An interesting public procurement development and hopefully one which will result in transformative and positive change.

Figures just reported show the number of Employment Tribunal claims are rising fast since the fee regime was repealed in July 2017. 

A consultation has been initiated by the Government to determine whether the mandatory reporting of ethnicity pay gap figures would help...

The Supreme Court have ruled that the refusal by Ashers bakery to make a cake with a slogan, "Support gay marriage"  was not...

10 October 2018 is World Mental Health Day and a time for us all to take a moment to think about our own mental health and that of those...

Amazon has announced an overhaul of its minimum hourly pay rates in the USA and UK. This means a significant pay rise for some workers,...

On the 28th September the High Court handed down its judgment in the case of Ocean Outdoor UK Limited v The London Borough of Hammersmith...

One of the constraints on local authorities financing new council housing has been the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) borrowing cap....