Employment and Business Immigration
17th August 2017
In this edition: In Dudley Metropolitan Council v Willetts and Others, the EAT has ruled that an employment tribunal did...
Employment and Business Immigration
16th August 2017
The second edition of the firm’s annual sports day, SMABLYMPICS, took place yesterday in Regent’s Park in aid of the...
Crime and Regulatory
1st August 2017
British American Tobacco is being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office. This follows allegations made by Paul Hopkins, an ex-employee...
Crime and Regulatory
1st August 2017
Today, the Privy Council delivered judgment in a major test case from Trinidad and Tobago brought by the Death Penalty...
Tech, IP and Digital Rights
31st July 2017
Anne Rogers and Marc Sobol explore the new Portability Regulation and what this means for consumers and online content services. Exciting...
Tech, IP and Digital Rights
27th July 2017
We are deeply saddened at the passing of Michael Seifert. Michael was exceptionally well liked across the whole firm and...
Employment and Business Immigration
26th July 2017
In this edition: Makbool Javaid, Partner and Head of Employment Law looks at the Supreme Court’s ruling in R (on...
Employment and Business Immigration
18th July 2017
Whistleblowing about breach of contract ‘can’ be in the public interest In this edition: Makbool Javaid, Partner and Head of...
Tech, IP and Digital Rights
17th July 2017
Enforcing your Trade Marks https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/30/british-weetabix-seized-by-new-zealand-customs-in-breakfast-bowl-battle-with-rival Apparently the hashtag #freetheweetabix is making the rounds in New Zealand, where its Customs officers,...
Tech, IP and Digital Rights
7th July 2017
Pamela Reddy and David Phillips, acting pro-bono for Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) lobbied the DPP setting out the case for...
Tech, IP and Digital Rights
3rd July 2017
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has warned businesses there’s no time to delay in preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation...
Tech, IP and Digital Rights
15th June 2017
The Privy Council has today found unconstitutional a statute in St Vincent and the Grenadines preventing prisoners facing the death...
Crime and Regulatory
14th June 2017
A recently closed Law Commission consultation has drawn criticism for blurring the lines between spying and whistleblowing in its proposed...
Crime and Regulatory
13th June 2017
A British man who was facing the mandatory death penalty for the alleged murder of his girlfriend in Kenya, has...
Crime and Regulatory
12th June 2017
We are delighted to announce that Lara Wulwik, partner in our Family Department, has been be included in CityWealth’s 2017...
Crime and Regulatory
25th May 2017
The Privy Council provides clarification of Stack v Dowden and Jones v Kernott and guidance as to the circumstances where...
Employment and Business Immigration
24th May 2017
The Work and Pensions Committee report into self-employment and the gig economy has found that companies relying on self-employed workforces...
Tech, IP and Digital Rights
18th May 2017
Simons Muirhead & Burton LLP look at driverless cars and smart cities; and threats and opportunities for the tech industry....
Tech, IP and Digital Rights
18th May 2017
Norwegian-British prisoner, Joshua French, has been released from prison in DRC on “humanitarian grounds” following growing concerns about his health....
Tech, IP and Digital Rights
11th May 2017
SM&B has been advising Alexa Chung on all corporate, IP and commercial aspects in respect of her eponymous fashion label,...
