Insight Articles
An archive of our latest insight articles, written by our Partners, Associates and Lawyers.
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“Fair play” essential to the future of NI business
29 May 2020
Throughout the COVID-19 crisis and now as we see a glimmer of hope in the slight easing of the lockdown and something which might soon resemble a timetable for further...
Author: Darren Toombs
Practice Area: COVID-19 , Debt Recovery, Insolvency and Restructuring
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Life After Lockdown for Business
12 May 2020
When I left my central Belfast office on March 19th to embrace the new world of full-time working from home (WFH), I genuinely believed I would return to the workplace...
Author: Orlagh O'Neill
Practice Area: COVID-19 , Employment Law
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COVID-19: Lockdown Life Support for Business
07 May 2020
When an American client asked me in Mid-March, how they could “furlough” their employees here, I had to Google the term. Almost two months later, the government’s CJRS Scheme...
Author: Orlagh O'Neill
Practice Area: COVID-19 , Employment Law
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Play fair or risk game over
08 April 2020
Three weeks into the COVID-19 crisis in the UK, and the concept of fair play has been a recurring theme in my mind, as I go about work in a...
Author: Darren Toombs
Practice Area: COVID-19 , Insolvency and Restructuring
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Barclays Bank v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 13
06 April 2020
FactsDr Gordon Bates who died in 2009, was a doctor who performed medical examinations for Barclays between 1968 and 1984. He was not employed by Barclays but was engaged...
Author: John McCloskey
Practice Area: Defence Insurance Litigation
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Ofcom: The Social Media Watchdog
03 March 2020
It was recently announced that Ofcom, the independent regulatory and competition authority for the UK’s communications industries, is to be granted new powers allowing it to regulate online and social...
Author: Hannah Stewart
Practice Area: Media and Defamation
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Northern Ireland forgotten in the new immigration system
25 February 2020
Some thought it would never happen but, on ‘Exit Day’ (31 January 2020), the UK officially left the European Union. With that departure, we prepare to welcome a new points...
Author: Leona Rankin
Practice Area: Employment Law
Sector: Brexit
The EU Copyright Directive and publishers content
14 February 2020
The UK’s exit from the EU is now well under way with the implementation period set to end at 11pm on 31st December 2021. However, there are still many questions...
Author: Olivia O'Kane
Practice Area: Media and Defamation
Sector: Brexit
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Is the Reform of Inheritance Tax on the horizon?
12 February 2020
On the 29th January 2020 the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Inheritance and Intergenerational Fairness (APPG IIF) published a report on the Reform of Inheritance Tax (IHT) in the UK. IHT...
Author: Fiona Kirkpatrick
Practice Area: Private Client
NI welcomes Early Conciliation
27 January 2020
Early Conciliation (EC) will come into effect from today, 27 January 2020. This will mean that anyone wishing to lodge a Tribunal claim must first notify the Labour Relations...
Author: Leona Rankin
Practice Area: Employment Law