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A number of legal changes will come into force this Spring …

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One important legal consequence of Brexit, particularly potentially damaging if there is no deal, concerns the application of the “Brussels Recast Regulation” …

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Faced with the prospect of goods shipped onto the high seas not reaching their destination until after the Brexit deadline, the Department for International Trade has responded by claiming that preparations are well underway – with trade deals already signed with the tiny 50,000-strong population of the Faroe Islands and landlocked Switzerland …

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At a preliminary hearing, the Court of Appeal has upheld an Employment Appeals Tribunal ruling that a group of Asda shop workers may compare their remuneration with a group of more highly paid Asda warehouse workers …

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A 10-week public consultation has been launched to consider the extending of redundancy protection for women and new parents …

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The latest debate in the UK Parliament on January 29th seemed to make the prospect of a “No Deal Brexit” a little less likely than many of us feared …

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We must all eagerly await an impending Supreme Court decision regarding restrictive covenants …

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Last February, the government sent approximately 550 warning letters to companies regarding unpaid internships and their legality …

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As we predicted many months ago, it was always unlikely that any Brexit deal would ever obtain a parliamentary majority – because of the political composition of the house of Commons and the sensitivity of the Irish border and Scottish parochial issues …

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The retailer Iceland is in dispute with the tax authority HMRC …

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The recently published immigration White Paper is not good reading for UK employers, especially those who rely on lower skilled immigrant labour …

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The UK government has agreed to fund 107 …

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The UK’s dysfunctional government has agreed to fund 107 …

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There are widescale concerns across the pharmaceutical industry that the UK government has required 16 companies and 10 trade associations to sign “gagging orders” forbidding them to make public governmental plans in the event that there is a no-deal Brexit …

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There seems to be some confusion about the validity of advice available to British citizens living in the EU outside the UK concerning Brexit …

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