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The outgoing Chief Coroner of England and Wales, HHJ Peter Thornton QC, has voiced his recommendation that Legal Aid should be provided for families at inquests where the Government is paying for lawyers to represent police officers or other state employees.  Inquests Solicitor Ali Cloak considers the background and implications of these recommendations.

Regional law firm Withy King LLP and city of London practice Royds LLP officially merged today (1 September 2016) and have sealed their merger with a new name – RWK Goodman. The newly-combined firm,...

As with all other areas of law, the exact implications for Brexit on your business in the context of any current or future commercial disputes will depend on the outcome of the Government’s negotiations with the remainder of the EU.

Parents who saw their son engulfed in flames after the police discharged a Taser at him, have today received compensation as part of an out-of-court settlement agreed with Devon and Cornwall Constabulary.

Estates in London and the South East paid almost half the UK’s Inheritance Tax (IHT) over a 12 month period, new statistics have revealed.

The former boss of Britain’s best-known HIV charity was unfairly dismissed because she had blown the whistle about the alleged misbehaviour of a trustee, an Employment Tribunal has concluded.

An organisation has appealed to be reinstated to the official register of charities after its failure to respond to correspondence from the Charity Commission led the regulator to believe it had been wound up.

The Pirelli calendar model who was awarded £75 million in one of the UK’s highest ever divorce settlements may have to “sue her own daughter” for the money.

A television cameraman has been left with a £230,000 court bill after losing a five-year legal battle with his ex-girlfriend.

In Amaryllis Limited v McLeod it fell to the EAT to look at the point at which an assessment was made as to whether there was an organised grouping of employees whose principle purpose was to carry out the transferring activities, where a service provision change potentially existed under TUPE. It held that this point must be immediately before the change of provider and not historical.

In a case which the Update has followed through its progress up through the courts, Taiwo v Olaigbe and Another is the Supreme Court decision as to whether immigration status is sufficiently associated with nationality to be a protected characteristic. The case concerned the mistreatment of migrant domestic workers on the grounds of their vulnerability due to their precarious immigration status. The Supreme Court held that this did not amount to discrimination on the grounds of nationality.

In Faithorn Farrell Timms LLP v Bailey the EAT has given the first appellate guidance on the scope of the amendment to the Employment Rights Act to incorporate the provision of protected conversations under Section 111A. Since this was introduced in July 2013, evidence of pre-termination negotiations in unfair dismissal claims have been rendered inadmissible in circumstances where, prior to the introduction of this provision, there would have needed to be a genuine dispute in the workplace in order for such discussions to attract the without prejudice protection. In this case, the EAT has held that the inadmissibility of referring to these conversations goes further than the content of the negotiations and extends to the very fact that they have taken place; and that, unlike the without prejudice privilege, this privilege cannot be waived.