The Supreme Court has handed down a landmark ruling that Uber drivers are in fact 'workers'
Following a lengthy legal dispute over the past few years, t...
Pannone Corporate's HR Forum is a free regular update for employers, aimed at HR professionals and anyone else who is involved in managing a workforce or...
Pannone Corporate has advised Place Capital Group on the acquisition of Fourth Street Place Consultants.
The corporate team, led by partner Tim Hamilt...
Pannone Corporate has expanded its team with a triple appointment as it looks to strengthen the law firm across its specialisms.
Michael McNally and A...
A Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA): a term not necessarily high on the agenda for many businesses, but one that has risen in prominence over the last ...
Never has it been easier to buy and sell online. But in a changing world, what considerations do online retailers need to make when selling overseas? Dan...
No one quite envisaged a year like 2020. It threw up a plethora of obstacles and challenges – the likes of which have not been experienced before by ma...
New ICO guidance on dealing with subject access requests
New guidance has been released by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), concerning an ...
Welcome to our Winter newsletter!
As the light finally appears at the end of the Covid19-shaped tunnel, we’ve seen a period of significant development...
A staple in every employment contract, the non-compete clause serves to act as a deterrent for any employee looking to jump ship and set up a similar bus...
“A Member State may not prohibit the marketing of cannabidiol (CBD) lawfully produced in another Member State when it is extracted from the Cannabis sa...
The British high street has seen a number of significant casualties over the course of 2020, as the sector has faced unprecedented challenges – a word ...
2020 has left an indelible footprint on North West businesses. COVID-19 has not discriminated against one sector over another; companies from across a br...
Employees previously shielding are advised to do so again
With new nationwide restrictions due to come into force from tomorrow, the Government has conf...
Can an employer rely on private WhatsApp messages in disciplinary proceedings, will asserting data protection breaches derail a disciplinary process, is ...
Chambers and Partners identifies the best law firms globally, from multi-nationals to boutiques. Underpinned by independent research and analysis of feed...
We make it our business to understand business – translating law into opportunity, growth and compliance for our clients. That’s why the Legal 500 ac...
This week marks the start of “Make a Will” month; a date which occurs each October as a way of raising awareness for people to take control of their ...
In order to process personal data concerning EU residents in connection with the sale of goods or services or the monitoring of EU residents (either as a...
Pannone Corporate's HR Forum is a free regular update for employers, aimed at HR professionals and anyone else who is involved in managing a workforce or...
The UKCA mark has something of a chequered history, with the previous guidance having been withdrawn and replaced by relative radio silence from Whitehal...
In place of our usual annual IHL conference in Manchester city centre, we will be offering the following webinars, presented by senior lawyers and partne...
What's New?
This month we look at new ACAS guidance on handling redundancies, guidance for employers who have over (or under) claimed under the Coronavi...
On 16 July 2020, the CJEU gave its long awaited decision on international data transfers in C-311/18 - Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Lt...
The chaos that has ensued from the regrading of A-Levels in the UK highlights far-reaching impacts of automated decision-making and why its use is restri...
What's New?
This month we look at updated pandemic data protection guidance from the ICO, preventing furlough fraud, and will working from home by the n...
The requirements for making a legally valid will are set out in a statute from 1837. One such requirement, that a will be witnessed “in the presence of...
Following the Third Treasury Direction published on 26 June 2020 setting out the mechanics of the changes to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the...
On 26 June 2020, the Third Treasury Direction was published setting out the mechanics of the changes to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (‘the Sche...
The HSE has issued further detailed guidance for employers struggling to determine whether confirmed Covid-19 cases within the workforce are reportable u...
You are invited to join Pannone Corporate’s Care Quality webinar on 8 July 2020 at 10am.
The Care Quality Commission was, prior to the pandemic, inc...
Updated guidance from HMRC has now been published which sets out how the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will operate more flexibly from 1 July onwards....
The phrase “cash is king” was used widely after the global stock market crash in 1987 and during the global financial crisis of 2008. No doubt the ph...
The 2019 Court of Appeal criminal case of R (The Pensions Regulator) v Workchain Limited (Workchain) serves as a useful reminder of the possible criminal...
The NHS Test and Trace system for COVID-19 was launched on 28 May 2020, some critics say with undue haste. The accompanying contact tracing app has had a...
To date the potential fines for non-compliance with the GDPR have attracted headlines. However, it is important for organisations to appreciate that ther...
The Government has announced more detail about how the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will operate from 1 July.
The scheme closes to new entrants ...
What's New?
This month we look at new ACAS guidance on handling disciplinaries and grievances during lockdown; holiday for furloughed workers; the lat...
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has established a new taskforce to investigate and, if necessary, take enforcement action against organisatio...
The Covid-19 lockdown restrictions have significantly impacted upon the employer/employee relationship with it being reported that 7.5 million workers ha...
The Government has announced today that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will be extended until the end of October.
The scheme will continue in it...
Introduction
On 1 April 2020 the Supreme Court handed down two significant decisions: Barclays Bank plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 13 (“Barclay...
Welcome to our Spring newsletter!
When we started to curate the updates for this bulletin, we could hardly have anticipated the sheer scale of the Cov...
What's New?
This month we look at new ACAS guidance on working from home; remote right to work checks; an increase to compensation for injury to feeling...
The Covid-19 crisis has resulted in an increased demand for wills as part of contingency planning. Whilst understandably clients are keen to make wills q...