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  • 07 March 2025
  • Employment

International Women’s Day 2025: A Call to Action for Employers to Champion Gender Equality in the Workplace

As we mark International Women’s Day 2025, it’s essential to reflect on the current state of gender equality in the workplace and the role employers can play in driving change.
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  • 06 March 2025
  • Employment

Government tables key amendments to the Employment Rights Bill

The Government has proposed a series of significant amendments to the Employment Rights Bill, which will be considered in Parliament.
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  • 06 March 2025
  • Immigration

What are the UK immigration visa requirements for schools?

Private schools in the UK play a significant role in the attracting international students, but to enrol those requiring a visa , they must comply with strict immigration regulations. 
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  • 06 March 2025
  • Privacy and Data Protection

Recent data breaches and their impact on organisations

Organisations of all sizes are susceptible to data breaches and the damage caused by these breaches, both reputationally and financially, can be very significant.
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  • 05 March 2025
  • Employment

Are older workers being failed by discrimination laws?

We have seen a lot of disparities between younger and older people, particularly relating to working arrangements and the “digital age”, and the perception of older people during the national response to COVID-19.

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  • 25 February 2025
  • Corporate and M&A

A brief guide to business exiting strategies

In this article, we explore business exiting strategies commonly found in practice as well as alternative strategies to consider.
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  • 25 February 2025
  • Employment

Carnival PLC v Hunter – Understanding maternity leave protections during redundancy

In the recent case of Carnival PLC v. Hunter, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) explained the position regarding offering suitable alternative roles for employees on maternity leave who face redundancy.
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  • 24 February 2025
  • Public Procurement

Public procurement: When does a contracting authority have an obligation to seek clarification?

In the recent case of Work on Wellbeing Ltd t/a Optima Health v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the Court of Appeal has provided useful guidance on how a contracting authority should exercise its discretion to seek clarification of errors and ambiguities in bids, and when they are obliged to do so.
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  • 20 February 2025
  • Immigration

UK court rules Home Office’s sponsorship requirement for care workers unlawful

Hartford Care Group Ltd, a prominent care home provider with 19 care homes in the UK, challenged the Home Office’s refusal to grant them 70 Defined Certificate of Sponsorships (DCOS) to recruit overseas migrants for their care homes.
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  • 19 February 2025
  • Employment

Employee objects to transfer – that’s good news isn’t it?

It’s common knowledge in TUPE circles that if an employee generally objects to a transfer their employment terminates by law on the transfer date.  It’s not treated as a dismissal.
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  • 18 February 2025
  • Corporate and M&A

Deal Announcement: Clarkslegal’s corporate lawyers advise on the sale of cloud-hosting and cyber security business

Clarkslegal’s corporate team is pleased to have advised the exiting shareholders of cloud-hosting and cyber-security businesses SIRE and GIBVault on their multi-million-pound sale.
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  • 17 February 2025
  • Employment

Asda a step closer to equal pay ruling

The Employment Tribunal in Brierley and others v Asda Stores Ltd has ruled that the majority of claimants working in retail roles in Asda supermarkets were doing work of equal value to their counterparts working in distribution centres.
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