BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 12 Apr 2013
When making financial orders on divorce (or dissolution of civil partnership), the court exercises a wide discretion. The court is specifically…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 4 Apr 2013
The current statutory scheme for checking criminal records requires the blanket disclosure of all spent warnings, convictions and cautions in…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 4 Apr 2013
In order to qualify as 'disabled' under the Equality Act 2010, an employee must have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 4 Apr 2013
In Mba v Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Merton, the EAT has considered whether a Christian care worker suffered indirect religious…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 4 Apr 2013
In Stringfellows Restaurants Ltd v Quashie, the Court of Appeal has reinstated the Employment Tribunal's decision that a lap dancer was self-employed…
BDB Pitmans LLP | European Union, United Kingdom | 4 Apr 2013
The key issue for the European Court of Human Rights in Eweida and Others v UK was whether a fair balance had been struck between an individual's…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 21 Mar 2013
In the wake of the global financial crisis, people expected a massive surge in litigation by investors looking for someone to blame for their losses…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 21 Mar 2013
Litigation can often be very expensive; sadly sometimes disproportionately so compared to the value of the dispute measured in purely financial terms…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 15 Mar 2013
Judicial review (Jr) proceedings were launched by four parties: Buckinghamshire County Council and 14 other local authorities (most of the members…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 13 Mar 2013
It hasn’t exactly been a slow news week, but that hasn’t stopped the story of Paul Marshallsea making the headlines. Again. You may recall that Mr…