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From 1 February 2013, new laws will come into force under the Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2012 (SI 2012/3007). This will see the limits on tribunal awards increase. The maximum compensatory award for unfair dismissal will rise from £72,300 to £74,200 and the maximum amount of a week’s pay, used to calculate statutory [...]

Two days before the London Olympics officially start, it has been reported that nine, yes that’s correct a staggering nine track and field athletes have been suspended for doping offences. Given that it is such a current topic, we have explored in this blog the purpose of WADA and the impact it has on the [...]

In the first blog in this series I looked at some of the considerations surrounding ambush marketing, where one company has paid a large sum to be the official sponsor of a sports event and another, rival, company seeks to “ambush” those rights by generating media publicity associating it with the event without paying the [...]

The turmoil at Glasgow Rangers continues. We have seen over the weekend that two high profile first team players, Steven Naismith and Steven Whittaker have terminated their contracts with Glasgow Rangers. Both players are in their peak of their career and would probably be valued in the marketplace at somewhere in the region of £3 [...]

 Paul Chambers lost his job as an Accountant following an avalanche of publicity when he was convicted in May last year of sending “an electronic comunication of a menacing character”, contrary to provisions of the 2003 Communications Act. The contrite comedian who tweeted a joke threat to “blow up” Robin Hood airport in south Yorkshire [...]

From 1 October 2012, new laws will come into force under the Pensions Act 2008 as amended by Pensions Act 2011. The aim of the change is to help more people have another income, on top of the State Pension, when they retire and to make it easier for people to start saving. This will [...]

The High Court has dismissed a privacy claim brought by the partner of MP Chris Huhne, Carina Trimingham against Associated Newspapers Ltd (the publisher of the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday). Ms Trimingham’s claim related to 65 articles that Associated Newspapers Ltd had published about her over the course of 15 months between [...]

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that £200,000-a-year stripper Nadine Quashie was an employee of Stringfellows club, paving the way for her unfair dismissal claim against the club. The EAT overturned the first-instance ruling that Quashie was self-employed and therefore unable to pursue her claim, stating that: “The judge’s repeated conclusion that there was [...]

For those of us who follow the politics of football, will have found the last few days and weeks very interesting. The rift between professional football both here and in Scotland with HMR is glaringly obvious. Messrs Redknapp, Storey and Mandaric have all been exonerated from criminal prosecution of tax fraud from events going back [...]