Rajeev Shaunak, head of travel & tourism, MHA MacIntyre Hudson, comments below on the Brexit bottleneck delaying new travel regulation, and urgent action needed to address concerns on the future of air travel and holidays. Consultations for the new Package Travel Directive (PTD) started in Autumn last year but have been dogged by delays and […]
On the 8th international Day of the Endangered Lawyer (last week), the Bar Council and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) together with lawyers’ organisations in Europe and around the world, stand in solidarity with those lawyers in Egypt who face persecution in furtherance of the protection of the rule of […]
Ahead of the second reading of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill in the Upper House, the House of Lords Constitution Committee is calling on the Government to amend the Bill. The Committee’s report, published last week, states that legislation is necessary to ensure legal continuity and certainty when the United Kingdom leaves the European Union. […]
A ground-breaking report recently released by the Fawcett Society concludes that the UK legal system is failing women and needs fundamental reform. The report, which is the conclusion of the Fawcett Society’s Sex Discrimination Law Review (SDLR) Panel, also found that violence against women and girls is ‘endemic’ in the UK. The SDLR Panel was […]
Firms should get expert help to make the apprenticeship levy work for them, says a training specialist. Chris Wood, CEO of Develop Training Ltd (DTL), was commenting as a government inquiry prepares to hear views about the levy introduced in April last year. Many of those views are likely to be critical with some businesses […]
Hard international law is needed to protect lawyers who have been subject to threats and attacks, often carried out by state agencies and individuals, including assault, harassment, imprisonment, surveillance, enforced disappearance, and even murder, the Bar Council has said. The call comes ahead of a crucial vote in Strasbourg tomorrow where UK members of the […]
Recent reports suggest that the NHS is under grave staffing danger, as its ‘haemorrhaging’ nurses with one in 10 leaving the service each year. This appears to be a 20% rise since 2012-13, and there are now more people leaving the NHS than there are joining. The figures from NHS Digital mean that in the […]
The government and its agencies must learn lessons from the Carillion collapse – and quickly - to address the inherent weaknesses of many UK final salary pension schemes, affirms deVere Group. Nigel Green, the Founder and CEO of deVere Group, is speaking out after Sky News reported that “Carillion's pension deficit…was as high as £2.6bn, a far […]
There’s a new tax law in town. It passed without a single vote from Democrats in the House or the Senate, and it’s a huge windfall for the richest Americans, including President Donald Trump. But Republicans didn’t just want any new tax law, they wanted to reform the tax code. To give the richest Americans […]
The UK Government’s Brexit bill, which is currently making its way through the lower chamber, is being considered by the UN as to whether it breaks international law by failing to consult the public over its legislation. The complaint originated from Friends of the Earth (FoE), an environmental campaigning community, which noted that the withdrawal […]
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