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No 5 Chambers | United Kingdom | 17 Jan 2013
I shall deal with only one category of financial adviser and will not attempt to deal with the myriad of individuals that may fall within the title…
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No 5 Chambers | United Kingdom | 4 Jan 2013
By a majority of 4 to1, in Societe Generale, London Branch v Geys the Supreme Court confirms that an employment contract, like any other contract, only…
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No 5 Chambers | United Kingdom | 28 Dec 2012
The provisions of schedule 2 of the Employment Act 2002 are unlikely to be at the fore of many readers' minds but there do remain a handful of cases in…
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No 5 Chambers | United Kingdom | 28 Dec 2012
In Patsystems v Neilly [2012] IRLR 979 the High Court rules that a statement in a letter to the effect that “I agree to the variation of my terms…which are…
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No 5 Chambers | United Kingdom | 28 Dec 2012
This is the title that the Government is striving to achieve according to its Response to the Consultation on Modern Workplaces, released on 13 November…
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No 5 Chambers | United Kingdom | 28 Dec 2012
Richard Adkinson considers the issue of dismissals and Article 6 which has recently been considered in the case of Ministry of Justice v Parry…
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No 5 Chambers | United Kingdom | 28 Dec 2012
The Agency Worker Regulations 2010 (‘the Regulations’) came into force on 1 October 2011 and complaints arising from those Regulations are beginning to…
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No 5 Chambers | United Kingdom | 28 Dec 2012
There has recently been a charity-backed challenge to the domestic worker exemption contained in regulation 2(2) of the National Minimum Wage Regulations…
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No 5 Chambers | United Kingdom | 28 Dec 2012
Russell Holland looks at the recent case of Sheibani v Elan and the interplay between a fair hearing and illegality. In Sheibani v Elan & Co LLP…
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No 5 Chambers | United Kingdom | 28 Dec 2012
When the parties in Jivraj v Hashwani [2010] EWCA Civ 712 included an arbitration clause in their joint venture agreement, it’s safe to say that neither…