Episode 10 of The Construction Briefing podcast is now available.
The Building Safety Bill received Royal Assent and is now known as the Building Safety Act 2022. We discuss when we expect its provisions to come into force (starts at 1:12). We also look at two adjudication enforcement judgments: Bexheat Ltd v Essex Services Group Ltd [2022] EWHC 936 (TCC) (starts at 24:40) and Van Oord UK Ltd v Dragados UK Ltd [2022] CSOH 30 (starts at 37.25).
Please join us on 18 May 2022 (2.00pm – 3.15pm) for a webinar hosted by The Centre for Legal Leadership (CLL) on strategies for progressing your legal career.
We all have ambitions regarding the type of work we do, the organisations we work for and the roles we would like to take on. In this session, we consider how you can give yourself the best chance of achieving those ambitions by focusing on areas such as skills and behaviours, knowledge, career planning, career transitions, networks, mentors, resilience and balance. We will also explore management and leadership.
The discussion will be led by our speakers, Justine Campbell (Group GC and Company Secretary, National Grid) and Nisha Arora (Director of Consumer and Retail Policy, FCA).
New sanctions, economic uncertainty and Brexit have given rise to a volatile regulatory and legal landscape across Europe. GCs must guide their organisations through an array of complex business and legal challenges while maintaining a highly effective and efficient legal department.
The Reuters webinar, General Counsel Leadership & Strategy – focus on Europe (19 May 2022, 11:00 EST / 16:00 BST / 17:00 CET), gathers three European GCs from different industries to give their insights on operating as a successful and trusted strategic business adviser in disrupted times.
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This week is Wellbeing Week in Law. Its aim is to:
“raise awareness about mental health and encourage action and innovation across the legal profession to improve wellbeing.”
Over the past few years, industry studies have painted a forbidding picture of the state of mental health and wellbeing in the legal profession. It is an occupation characterised in many ways by deeply embedded cultural norms and stress, burnout, and poor mental health sadly remain all too common. This is before factoring in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading
Episode 95 of the Hearing is now available.
Here at Hearing HQ, we love to hear the real life stories of the people who make up the legal industry. And it’s been a pleasure to speak to Julie Jaggin, from Howard Kennedy, about her career and experiences as a lawyer with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which wasn’t diagnosed until she was 41.
Julie and Yasmin talk about the power of labels and the myriad of positives that differently wired brains can bring to a firm. They also discuss the negatives – how a lack of understanding can really damage people’s self-perception, as well as their careers.
Julie outlines how she has navigated her career to date. And she shares practical ways that neurotypical lawyers can be allies and champions for their neurodiverse colleagues.
This month in-house lawyers should keep an eye on developments in corporate reporting, changes to the UK Immigration Rules, guidance on reducing the spread of respiratory infections (including COVID-19) in the workplace, and consultations on improving mental health and wellbeing.
SYKE is a global legal technology and operations consultancy that helps in-house legal teams choose, buy and implement legal technology. We work alongside our technology partners, such as Thomson Reuters, to offer our shared client’s implementation, integration and migration services.
Anglo American is a global organisation operating across many time zones, business units and jurisdictions. The Global Group Legal team was keen to move beyond simply managing risk and start delivering greater value to the business by becoming a genuinely strategic partner. They wanted a single view of matters and trends across all the jurisdictions that they operate in so that the legal team could proactively manage and address issues.
Episode 9 of The Construction Briefing podcast is now available.
This month we look at the Building Safety Bill, which has now concluded its passage through the House of Lords. The latest building safety developments include removal of the role of Building Safety Manager, a further update to Form EWS1 and agreements reached on who will pay for remediation works.
We also look at two Court of Appeal judgments addressing the embargo that applies to reserved court judgments: The Public Institution for Social Security v Banque Pictet & Cie SA and others [2022] EWCA Civ 368 and R (Counsel General for Wales) v Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy [2022] EWCA Civ 181.
While many companies say that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is of paramount importance to them, there is still a disconnect between rhetoric and reality. After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, $50 billion was pledged by corporate America to advance racial justice but to date less than $2 billion has been distributed. Diversity in law still lags behind many comparable professions, and for those who are passionate about trying to advance this cause, there is frustration with the glacial pace of change.
The UK’s new Information Commissioner took charge in January and quickly opened a major listening exercise to gather feedback from businesses, organisations, and individuals about their experiences of engaging with the ICO. The consultation remains open until 1 May. Continue reading