When asked whether employees have the legal right to bring a lawyer to internal disciplinary hearings, most employers would say no. Indeed, most organisations have formulated policies around the statutory provisions, which refe...

Central government funding has long been focused on social infrastructure such as schools and housing - with massive programmes of investment such as Building Schools for the Future. Infrastructure such as roads and bridges has not typically been fu...

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The High Court has provided some clarity on applying the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to insolvent businesses. In particular, how the Scheme permits administrators to pay furloughed employees within the constraints of current ...

Following the landmark Pinnock decision, the Supreme Court has now provided landlords with a set of guidelines which should help them to avoid falling foul of human rights issues in relation to recovery of possession. These appeals surround the emo...

1.  Summary On 12 July the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), released its eagerly anticipated Electricity Market Reform White Paper (the White Paper). The contents of the White Paper bring some further clarity to the measures desc...

Youssefi v Mussellwhite [2014] EWCA Civ 885 Horne & Meredith Properties Ltd v Cox [2014] All ER (D) 194 These two cases concern opposition to lease renewals on the grounds of the tenant’s breach of covenant (“grounds (a), (b) and (c)...

In Woods Building Services v Milton Keynes Council [2015] EWHC 2011 (TCC), the High Court upheld a challenge by an unsuccessful bidder (“Woods”) of a tender process undertaken by Milton Keynes Council (the “Council”) on the g...

On 21 July the Technology and Construction Court handed down judgment in relation to two applications made in the case of Perinatal Institute v Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership. This interesting judgment highlights two potential pitfalls f...

The 2017 edition of the Getting the Deal Through: Public Procurement is now live. The Polish chapter has been developed by Tomasz Zalewski, head of the public procurement team at Wierzbowski Eversheds Sutherland. The contributing editor of the Guide...

The 2018 edition of the Getting the Deal Through: Public Procurement is now live. The contributing editor of the Guide is Totis Kotsonis, competition lawyer and head of procurement at Eversheds Sutherland. The publication contains expert local insig...

Witold Slawinski, head of our tech & engineering team, contributed to the guide "Public Procurment 2019" - expert local insight into public procurement procedures in 34 jurisdictions, addressing such crucial topics as: legislative framework, app...

The coronavirus outbreak and various responses by authorities across the globe have prompted several amendments to government Intellectual Property Offices (“IPOs”), courts, and in some cases filing deadline extensions. These specia...

The law on force majeure differs from country to country, not least between common law and civil law jurisdictions. We have produced a both a Global Guide to Force Majeure and an Asia-Pacific Guide to Force Majeure that provides some preliminary ad...

In this session we look at high value/reputationally sensitive disputes in the education sector. Running a university or Higher Education Institution is always a complicated business – and never more so than now. The sector is facing a time of unp...

From today, a new right for employees to request time off work to undertake training or study applies to all businesses in England, Scotland or Wales with 250 or more employees. For employers familiar with the right to requ...

A new ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) suggests fathers who take advantage of new rights to extended paternity leave from April next year could be entitled to the same rights and benefits from their employer as women who...

Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Limited v Compton Beauchamp Estates Limited [2019] EWCA Civ 1755 The Court of Appeal’s judgement is the latest decision concerning the Code and the first appeal heard concerning the Electr...

As originally published on CoStar on 07 November 2019 In the first of a regular series, leading real estate lawyer Bruce Dear talks to a senior player in real estate over ...

In August 2019, the Government consulted on the principle of amending permitted development rights in England to grant planning permission for mobile infrastructure to support deployment of 5G and extend mobile coverage. The Government is committed ...

Since the Federal Council ordered the closure of a large part of the shops in Switzerland in mid-March to counteract the spread of the COVID-19 virus, a dispute has raged between business tenants and landlords as to whether this extraordinary situat...

United Kingdom Independence Party Limited v Richard Braine and others [2019] EWHC 3527 (QB) Facts of the Case This decision relates to: 1. applications by the Claimant (“UKIP”) for orders (a) continuing until trial an interim non-disclos...

TBD (Owen Holland) Ltd v Simons & Ors [2020] EWHC 30 (Ch) Background A search order is one of the most draconian orders that the English courts can make, allowing an applicant – where there is a real possibility that a respondent may destroy o...

Listen as our panel answer some of the most common questions clients have asked us over recent weeks as well as digging into more detail around how your business should proceed with specific legal and technical challenges. A recording of the session...

On 9 April 2020, the President extended the lockdown period until 30 April 2020. On 16 April 2020, the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs published and issued new Regulations in Government Gazette 43232, Government Notice No....

On 23 April 2020, the President announced that from 1 May 2020, lockdown would be extended at level 4 – which provides for reduced restrictions. On 29 April 2020, the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, published and is...

In a resolution published on Thursday, the European Parliament has urged the EU Commission to apply a ‘transparent process’ in formulating revised blacklist of third countries with strategic AML/CFT deficiencies, suggesting an ...

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Iminjan Seydin appeared in a video praising the government after he was missing for three years.

An approval would bring the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act a significant step closer to becoming law.

On Friday 14 February 2020, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (“ISDA”) published the ISDA Collateral Agreement Interest Rate Definitions (the “Collateral Rate Definitions”). The Collateral Rate Definit...

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The High Court looks at the definition of highway ‘maintainable at public expense’ in the recent case of Barlow v Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council (2019). The case at first instance The claimant, Deborah Barlow, brought a claim against...

Summary of the communication from the EU commissionInterpretative Guidelines on EU Regulation 261/2004 on passenger rights in the context of the developing situation with Covid-19 - 18 March 2020 Right to choose between reimbursement and rerouting ...

The Court of Appeal decision in Forsyth-Grant v Allen concerned the construction of a pair of semi-detached houses that interfered with the rights of light enjoyed by a neighbouring hotel. The builder employed a rights of light surveyor, who tried t...

The Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 grants tenants of flats a right of first refusal if the landlord wishes to dispose of its interest in the whole or part of 'a building'. In a decision that is hugely significant for the increasing numbers of landowne...

High value residential property New Tax Rates The 2012 Budget introduced a new charge to stamp duty land tax (“SD...

There have been many examples of high profile health and safety incidents in recent years, including major rail disasters, the serious incident at Alton Towers and of course the tragedy at Grenfell Tower. These have rightly received high profile, wi...

Update | 23. 4. 2020: The Parliament passed the act on certain measures to mitigate the effects of the SARS CoV-2 coronavirus epidemic on tenants of business premises. The new act will be effective once signed by the President and published in the C...

This week marks another critical juncture in the ongoing fight against the economic challenges presented by the COVID-19 crisis. With the jobs retention scheme portal now open for applications since Monday 20 April 2020, many businesses and employer...

Chambers & Partners, an independent editorial and research team recently published the latest editions of Chambers Global and Chambers Europe legal guides. We are proud to announce that Eversheds Sutherland Ots & Co has again been highly...

Eversheds Sutherland were delighted to partner with Women in ETFs for a one hour webinar 'Navigating Lockdown and Beyond - Practical steps to support ourselves and others through a unique time' on 30 April. The presentation was delivered by Á...

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No support in the Corona crisis... The measures already initiated by the German Federal Government and the EU Commission to support and secure liquidity in the Corona crisis are focused on the industries directly affected by Corona/ COVID 19. They ...

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