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Sleep-ins – what’s next?
The Court of Appeal’s judgment in the Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake is not yet the final word on sleep-ins.
The Independent Care Group
Social care providers can often struggle to have a unified voice with dozens of homes and domiciliary care organisations dealing with the same commissioners and facing the same challenges – but rarely speaking out in unison…
Avoiding a war on two fronts
Every provider is familiar with the necessary interaction and inspection programme of the CQC. This article focusses on that relationship when another body is added into the mix, such as a placing authority.
Record Keeping: A Silver Bullet?
Stephen Hooper has contributed an article to Implant Dentistry Today.
What’s new in employment law…?
What’s new in employment law…? In this article we highlight some recent employment law changes and developments, which are of particular relevance to employers managing negotiations with departing employees and the financial entitlements of such staff.
Latest holiday pay case in the EAT is far from a bed of roses for NHS employers
Latest holiday pay case in the EAT is far from a bed of roses for NHS employers. Flowers and others v East of England Ambulance Trust UKEAT/0235/17. Over the summer we have seen a further holiday pay case emerge which changes the holiday pay landscape and has particular significance for NHS employers.
Are employers too quick to suspend employees accused of wrongdoing? Court forces employer to lift eminent doctor’s suspension
The answer this month was a resounding yes in the case of Professor Marjan Jahangiri the first female professor of cardiac surgery in the United Kingdom and Europe who works at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, London.
How Best to Manage your Lawyer
How Best to Manage your Lawyer - Every business, no matter how large or how small, leaves a “legal footprint” – so if you operate without any legal advice at all, you do so at your peril!
Dr Bawa-Garba Successful in Appeal Against Erasure
In a judgment released today, the Court of Appeal has quashed the decision of Ouseley J that Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba be struck off the medical register.
Trust Matters
“Trust Matters”. These are the bywords of the Charity Commission for its recent report on public trust in charities, issued in July.
Case law update: Multiple Defendants and QOCS
The lead Judgment in Cartwright is a barrier for successful Defendants who wish to recover the costs of defending personal injury claims. Lord Justice Coulson upheld the Cost Judge's decision that that sums payable under a Tomlin order by D1 to the Claimant were not covered by CPR r.44.14(1). On that basis, the successful D2, Venduct, could not recover their legal costs from the damages paid by D1 to the Claimant under the Tomlin order. Unfortunately for Defendants, settlements reached under CPR r.36 are not covered by the QOWCS regime either.
Gig economy: informal and flexible – but who has what rights when it all goes wrong?
In the recent judgment in Pimlico Plumbers Ltd and another v Smith [2018] UKSC 29, the Supreme Court ruled that a plumber who paid tax as a self-employed contractor was a worker with rights to bring Employment Tribunal claims outside the contract. Jean Sapeta explains why and what it means for you.
New Sentencing Guidelines for Manslaughter Published
The Sentencing Council has this week published definitive guidelines for those convicted of manslaughter offences in England and Wales.
Supreme Court Approves Withdrawal of Artificial Feeding and Hydration in Cases of Prolonged Disorder of Consciousness
In a landmark judgment this week, the Supreme Court has confirmed that the law does not require hospitals or clinicians to seek the Court’s approval before withdrawing feeding support from patients with prolonged disorder of consciousness.