Updates

Discrimination law poses a minefield for employers. And thanks to an Employment Tribunal ruling on 3 January 2020, veganism has entered into the realm of, what some argue, is an already crowded list of characteristics that employers need to handle with care. Read more.

It has been 18 months since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. A year and a half is a long time in business, and your organisation may have grown substantially since May 2018. Read more.

Unlike its predecessor, the Entrepreneur visa, which produced more than 1,000 successful applications last year, the number of Innovator visas granted so far is in the single digits - this hardly suggests that ‘Britain is open for business’. This is even more worrying as the country edges closer to a no-deal exit from the EU with stark implications predicted for UK businesses. Read more.

In 2019, Facebook proudly announced it was going the way of Bitcoin and Ethereum in forging its own digital money, in the form of its currency, ‘Libra’. There is little doubt that digital currencies have profound political, environmental, social, technological, and financial implications. However, they also have profound legal connotations. Read more.

Subject Access Requests (SARs) provide for some of the most challenging compliance matters relating to the GDPR. Recently, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued two enforcement notices against the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) over a backlog of information requests. In this article, I will outline the law around SARs and deal with two common concerns. Read more.

The word disruption is constantly used in business today, and for good reason. As little as a year ago, few would have predicted that Facebook would launch its own currency; across Europe, political instability is becoming more prominent, especially in Austria, Hungary, and Poland; and America and China continue to circle each other, dancing around the worrisome prospect of a full-blown trade war (however this may have calmed down for now if recent news stories are to be taken on face value). Read more.

n 2015, Deutsche Bank examined some of the discrepancies in the money flowing in and out of the City of London and found that since the early 1990s, £133bn had arrived in the UK without ever being publicly accounted for.  Ironically, less than two years after the Dark Matter report, Deutsche Bank was slapped with fines of $425m (£317m) in the US and £163m in the UK after traders in Moscow were caught secretly moving $10bn (£7.5bn) of client money out of Russia by illegally exploiting the stock market. Read more.

Look around your office. If you have female employees between 45-60, the chances are that some of them, on a daily basis, are struggling to cope. They may be finding it hard to concentrate and remember things, dealing with humiliating hot flushes that strike without warning, exhausted having not slept properly for nights on end, and struggling with mood swings that are affecting their home life. Read more.

When you think of a start-up entrepreneur, do you imagine a hip, casually dressed 24-year-old?  Unencumbered with family and mortgage commitments, allowing them to work 100-hour weeks, living on green juice and sleeping in hammocks swinging in their trendy office in Shoreditch?  If so, you are not alone.  This image of today’s entrepreneurs is well entrenched in our culture. Read more.

Due to the growing public awareness of allegations of sexual abuse and harassment by former Hollywood mogul, Harvey Weinstein and other powerful players, the #metoo movement sprung up.  Now, almost every industry (including law) is dealing with the consequences of the reprehensible behaviour and culture of certain individuals and organisations. Read more.