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Employment alert – Living with Covid – what does this mean for employers?

Employment alert

Living with Covid – what does this mean for employers?

Following the publishing of the government’s latest Covid-19 response, ‘Living with Covid-19’, on 21 February, updated guidance from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has been provided and applied in England since 1 April. In this article, which is an update of our March article “Living with Covid – what does this mean for employers?”, we look at how the updated guidance impacts on employers and some of the options open...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/04/23/employment-alert-living-with-covid-what-does-this-mean-for-employers/

Reminder Invitation to LSLC-YMP’s Breakfast Webinar- Collisions, Wreck Removal and Salvage in English and Singaporean Law – 9th March

Reminder Invitation to LSLC-YMP’s Breakfast Webinar- Collisions, Wreck Removal and Salvage in English and Singaporean Law – 9th March

To LSLC Members,

We are pleased to invite you to the first event in the LSLC-YMP’s 2022 Global Webinar Series.

The webinar is free to attend, however for those who wish to have breakfast/coffee break alongside, Penningtons Manches Cooper will provide a free breakfast/coffee break basket to the first 15 people to sign up in London and first 15 people to sign up in...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/03/07/reminder-invitation-to-lslc-ymps-breakfast-webinar-collisions-wreck-removal-and-salvage-in-english-and-singaporean-law-9th-march/

The Impact of COVID-19, Facilitative Mediation, Early Intervention, and and the new Visual Online Dispute Resolution: Part 2

The Impact of COVID-19, Facilitative Mediation, Early Intervention, and and the new Visual Online Dispute Resolution: Part 2

Rhys Clift

by Rhys Clift, MCIArb [1]

Precis

The COVID-19 pandemic has had widespread effects, notably on dispute resolution, on mediation practice and on court practice. Much of the change has the appearance of permanence. This is the second of two articles on this topic. The first touched on the pandemic and then looked in some depth at certain aspects of Facilitative...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/09/14/the-impact-of-covid-19-facilitative-mediation-early-intervention-and-and-the-new-visual-online-dispute-resolution-part-2/

Employment alert – Compensation and career loss earnings

Employment alert – Compensation and career loss earnings

In the case of Secretary of State for Justice v Plaistow, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered the applicable principles when looking at damages for a loss of career, as well as other points that should be considered in determining the overall award.
 
Mr Plaistow was employed by the Prison Service for a number of years. He succeeded with a claim before the employment tribunal (ET) that he was subjected to a number of instances of...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/07/20/employment-alert-compensation-and-career-loss-earnings/

The Impact of COVID-19, Facilitative Mediation, Early Intervention, and the new Visual Online Dispute Resolution

The Impact of COVID-19, Facilitative Mediation, Early Intervention, and the new Visual Online Dispute Resolution

Rhys Clift

by Rhys Clift, MCIArb[1]

This is the first of two papers published on ADR, at a particularly striking moment, as all restrictions imposed by the British Government (applicable in England) are to be lifted on 19/7/2021.  This paper has just been published in the Journal of International Maritime Law (JIML) at 2021) 27 JIML page 96, on 9th July 2021. The second paper will...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/07/20/the-impact-of-covid-19-facilitative-mediation-early-intervention-and-the-new-visual-online-dispute-resolution/

How to play it safe in an unsafe port: guidance for charterers and owners

How to play it safe in an unsafe port: guidance for charterers and owners

Ioanna Vitta

Many standard form charterparties often contain an express warranty to ensure the port’s safety on the part of the charterer. Even in circumstances where such a warranty is not expressly provided, there is still the possibility that one could be implied.

In this article, we first examine what constitutes a safe port and the nature of the charterers’ obligation to nominate one and then how this old doctrine finds...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/03/22/how-to-play-it-safe-in-an-unsafe-port-guidance-for-charterers-and-owners/

COVID-19, plague, planets, conjunctions, comets, and the Chinese New Year

COVID-19, plague, planets, conjunctions, comets, and the Chinese New Year

Rhys Clift

COVID-19, PLAGUE, PLANETS, CONJUNCTIONS, COMETS, AND THE CHINESE NEW YEAR

By Rhys Clift 1

The COVID-19 pandemic, first reported in Wuhan, China towards the end of 2019 or early 2020,
has dominated the last year. It became manifest in the West at some time in January 2020.
Twelve months having since elapsed, this may be a good moment to take stock, as we approach
Chinese New Year (the Year of the Ox) on 12 February...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/03/02/covid-19-plague-planets-conjunctions-comets-and-the-chinese-new-year/

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