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  • 02 July 2019
  • IP and Commercial

The Adidas Case – is your EU Trademark Safe?

You may have heard from various press articles that the General Court of the European Union has recently upheld that the iconic three stripes design owned by Adidas is not distinctive enough for trade mark registration.
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  • 02 July 2019
  • IP and Commercial

Clarkslegal advises on Management Buyout

Clarkslegal’s corporate team, led by Partner Ashan Arif, advised the management on the successful buyout of City based Independent Trustee Services Limited from leading employee benefits provider, JLT Benefit Solutions Limited (part of the MMC Group). I
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  • 01 July 2019
  • Corporate and M&A

Clarkslegal supports Turkish food importer to buy wholesaler

We are pleased to complete the acquisition of a wholesale and distribution business for a client which further bolsters existing turnover and operations in different geographical areas.
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  • 27 June 2019
  • Immigration

EU Settlement Scheme Family Permit – Evidence Required

Following on from our last article, there are a number of technicalities to be aware of when making an EU Settlement Scheme Family Permit application.
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  • 24 June 2019
  • Employment

Human Resources and Ethics

The recently announced huge gift of £150 million to Oxford University by Stephen Schwarzman to fund a new institute for ethics in artificial intelligence is a reminder of the huge importance attached by many to the need for more ethical focus on issues arising from artificial intelligence and technology innovation.
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  • 20 June 2019
  • Employment

Training duties discriminatory for non-English employee

In the recent case of Khawaja v Transport for London, a Tribunal found that an employee had been subjected to direct race discrimination by his manager in respect of the allocation of training opportunities.

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  • 19 June 2019
  • Immigration

Top 4 points to remember when applying for British Citizenship

The below is a summary of the most important requirements for naturalisation. Remember the key is preparation!

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  • 14 June 2019
  • Employment

Jobs and skills for a brighter future

A very expert global panel convened at the ILO conference in Geneva on 14 June examined issues around how to produce decent jobs in the future.

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  • 14 June 2019
  • Employment

Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) in discrimination cases

The Women and Equalities Select Committee (“WESC”) has called for the government to either ban or reset the parameters on which NDAs are used by employers to silence employees’ allegations of unlawful discrimination and harassment in the workplace. The WESC has commented that it is “completely unacceptable that allegations of unlawful discrimination and harassment in the workplace are routinely covered up by employers with legally drafted NDAs”.
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  • 14 June 2019
  • Employment

Court of Appeal overturns EAT decision on trade union inducement

In December 2017 we blogged on the case of Kostal UK Ltd v Dunkley and others. In this case, an employer’s proposal to change terms and conditions was rejected in a consultative ballot and it subsequently wrote to all employees directly saying that a failure to agree to the terms would “lead to no Christmas Bonus and no pay increase this year”.  The employer argued that it did this, not to circumvent collective bargaining, but because otherwise it would run out of time to pay the Christmas Bonus.The Tribunal and EAT held that these actions were a breach of S145B...
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  • 12 June 2019
  • Employment

Workers’ voluntary overtime included in holiday pay

Judgment in favour of ambulance workers could have wider implications, say employment lawyers. Voluntary overtime for ambulance workers should be factored into holiday pay allocations, providing such overtime is sufficiently regular to form part of a normal remuneration package, a court has ruled.
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  • 12 June 2019
  • Immigration

Calling all International Students: Coming to the UK on a Tier 4 visa

Moving to a different country can be an exciting idea, and done right, it can reap its benefits. Universities in the UK feature at the top-end of University rankings, and with easy access to Europe, studying in the UK can be a life-changing decision.The UK’s student visa is known as a Tier 4 visa and is a category under the Points-based system (PBS) of UK’s Immigration rules.
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