Partner and employment law specialist Paul Statham casts a sceptical eye over government proposals encouraging employees to ‘sell’ long-held employment rights for potentially worthless shares… (more…)

Partner and personal injury specialist Marcus Weatherby critically considers proposed Government changes in health and safety, and how they have ‘misrepresented’ what the Lofstedt Report has to say… (more…)

Clinical Negligence partner Rosamund Rhodes-Kemp finds a first-class example of why the Government’s meddling with legal aid and after-event insurance is so unfair to ordinary people…

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Felicia Epstein is an employment specialist from our London office and member of the Institute of Employment Rights (IER).  As part of the consultation process, she’s drafted a response to Government proposals changing the rules on collective redundancies… 

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Partner and employment law specialist Paul Statham has recently had an extended article published in the Sept/Oct 2012 edition of ‘ela briefing‘ (the Employment Lawyers Association)  … 

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Partner and clinical negligence specialist Linda Levison urges NHS Trusts to remedy a bizarre state of affairs…

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The disturbing conclusions of the Hillsborough Report have far wider implications than may have first been appreciated, believes clinical negligence partner and former NHS nurse Rosamund Rhodes-Kemp…

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Yesterday we saw vindication for the Hillsborough families after their 23 year-long struggle.

Our thoughts are with those families who, at last, have the truth. Full justice and redress, we believe, must come next.

Where’s the fairness in the Government’s proposals to cap compensation for unfair dismissal? Partner and employment law specialist Paul Statham is at a loss to understand the current thinking…

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In the light of an alarming number of work-related suicides in France, Binder Bansel, our head of employment law, considers the steps open to an employee if harassed and put under intolerable pressure by an employer in the UK…  

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