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The Lawyer - Hot 100
Emma Shipp, Managing Partner of
SGH, has been recognised by The Lawyer magazine as being one of the
‘Hot 100’ lawyers who were at the top of their game
during the last year and who are set to shape the legal landscape in
the 12 months ahead.
Please click
HERE (Emma is featured on pages 14/17).
SGH ranked in
Chambers UK – A client’s guide to the UK Legal Profession
Sprecher Grier
Halberstam has been top ranked for personal insolvency and ranked
for its work in professional negligence
To read more about
the specific rankings please click
here
Whose fault is it anyway? - Mortgage Finance Gazette, November
2009
Lee O’Sullivan, an associate at Sprecher Grier Halberstam LLP,
considers how lenders contemplating claims against solicitors could
potentially side-step allegations of contributory negligence in the
latest round of lender litigation. To view the article, please
click here
Environmentalism, the British
Religion, Time Magazine, Saturday 7 November
(Nicholson v Grainger)
Caroline Doran, an employment specialist at the
London law firm Sprecher Grier Halberstam LLP, tells TIME the
decision will "result in a tidal wave of philosophical-related
litigation to employment tribunals." To read the full article please
click here
35 Under 35 - The Glass
Hammer, 19 October 2009
“Anyone who sees employment law as “touchy feely” probably hasn’t
had a HR problem,” says Caroline Doran, partner at London law firm
Sprecher Grier Halberstam LLP.
The Glass Hammer is
an online community designed for women executives in financial
services, law and business.
To view the whole article
please
click here
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INSOL Europe Stockholm Congress 1-4 October
Ken Titchen, Partner,
Restructuring & Insolvency Group, presented a talk on cross border
insolvency issues at the above event. To view his talk please
click here
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File-Sharing Legislation – LexisNexis, Wednesday 9 September 2009
The government has proposed tough new laws that could
see people who persist in swapping copyrighted films and music
having their internet connection cut off. Selena Masson speaks to IT
law expert
Keith Arrowsmith.
To view the full article, please
click here.
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A Whiter
Shade of Pale – LexisNexis, Tuesday 1 September 2009
Fisher v Brooker and another
[2009] All ER (D) 338 (Jul),
[2009] UKHL 41. The House of Lords ruled that Matthew Fisher, a
former organist in the band Procul Harum, was not barred from
collecting future royalties for the song “A whiter Shade of Pale”,
even though he waited 38 years to stake his claim.
Keith Arrowsmith,
IP/IT Partner has been quoted. To view the full article please
click here.
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Swine flu pandemic raises workplace
litigation risk, 28 July 2009
Businesses could
face an increase in legal claims from employees hit by
swine flu,
legal experts have warned.
Caroline Doran,
Employment Partner has been quoted. To view the whole article,
please
click here
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Climate
change -the new religion? Authoritas Newsletter (RSM Bentley
Jennison) June 2009
The case of Nicholson v
Grainger plc is one of which all employers should be aware since
it could have far-reaching (and expensive) implications for them. In
this case, the Employment Tribunal acknowledged for the first time
that an individual’s views on climate change were capable of being
protected under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief)
Regulations 2003 (“the Regulations”). Article written by
Caroline Doran,
Employment Partner. To view the whole article, please
click here.
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Looking the part -
Lookism in the workplace discrimination or a fact of life? New Law
Journal, 11 September 2009
It is a commonly held belief that there
is now a culture of “lookism” in most workplaces in that staff are
recruited, promoted and retained either on an arbitrary view of
their attractiveness or on the basis of how their appearance
best matches the image their employer wishes to present. Article by
Helen Crossland, Associate, Employment Law.
To
read the full article please click
here
Company Fights climate Change Ruling by
Employment Tribunal - The Guardian, Monday 7 September
A controversial tribunal
decision that some company practices can discriminate against
employees with strongly held views on climate change will be
challenged in the courts.
Senior executive Tim
Nicholson claimed he was unfairly dismissed by a property investment
company because his views on the environment conflicted with other
managers' "contempt for the need to cut carbon emissions".
Caroline Doran,
Employment Partner, has been quoted in the UK's Guardian Newspaper.
To read the article,
click here
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Swine flu
pandemic could fuel rise in workplace litigation – The Guardian,
Tuesday 28 July
Businesses
could face a spate of legal claims from employees hit by
swine flu,
experts warn, as concerns mount that firms are not prepared to deal
with legal issues arising from affected staff.
Caroline Doran,
Employment Partner has been quoted in the UK’s Guardian Newspaper.
To read the article, click here.
We have also developed a swine flu policy for employers. To find
out more please click
here.
Firm
Profile - The Lawyer, Monday 27 July
The Lawyer
has reported on the latest successful growth of SGH. It highlights
the firm’s international links as a member Legus. To read the
article, click here.
Home.co.uk
under fire in estate agency property scraping scrap – The Negotiator
Magazine, 26 June 2009
Sophisticated ways of linking to a website could allow users to
re-use your data without your permission. Keith Arrowsmith, a
partner in our IP department, was asked to comment on ongoing
problems of so called screen-scraping faced by estate agents. To
view the article please click
here
10th Annual Insolvency Conference
– June 2009. To view and download the notes from the above event
please visit the Articles in our
Insolvency Practice Area
SGH is delighted to announce
the hire of a new IT/IP Partner, Keith Arrowsmith. He was
previously head of Intellectual Property Law at HLW in Sheffield and
brings our total number of partners up to 25. For more information
please click here
We are delighted to introduce
our newest recruit to the Employment Team, Hinal Carson. Hinal
practises both contentious and non-contentious employment matters.
Hinal is the latest addition to our growing Employment Team. For
more information please click
here
SGH Partnership growth defies economic
downturn -
SGH is pleased to announce that 3 new partners are
joining the firm from Rooks Rider. Paul Clements and Kelly Tinker
have joined the Commercial Litigation Team and Caroline Doran will
soon join the Employment Team, bringing the total of partners at SGH
to 24.
April 2009
SGH announces 3
new hires in their Commercial Litigation, Property Litigation and
Employment teams. March 2009 - (PDF)
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