News – JFH Law

Ghosh; is there a new test for dishonesty in town?

DENTAL BULLETIN, ISSUE 57 In the case of Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) LTD t/a Crockfords the Supreme Court effectively re-wrote the test for dishonesty. It removed the second, subjective limb of the current test. This has a significant impact, as it has resulted in one single standard dishonesty test across civil, criminal and regulatory cases. This decision will have huge implications for...Read More

Employment Tribunals; fee reimbursement scheme

Three months ago the Supreme Court ruled that the Employment Tribunal fee regime was unlawful and therefore must be withdrawn. Since then we have been waiting for the Government to confirm its plans to reimburse those who paid the unlawful fee. Finally, on 20th October 2017 the Government confirmed its plans to roll out a reimburse scheme. This is a staged process; the first 4...Read More

FREE workshop – How to protect your business interests

London, 8th February 2018  – A half day FREE workshop Julia Furley and Laura Pearce and , two of JFH Law’s specialists in contract law, will deliver the workshop How to protect your business interests, in association with Building Legacies. This talk will take place on the 8th of February at Canary Wharf Group Plc, 1 Canada Square, London E14 5AB. Every business knows that it can take years to...Read More

EU court rules for women

Sex discrimination at the police school? In the recent case of Ypourgos Ethnikis Pedias kai Thriskevmaton v. Kalliri, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that the requirement for candidates for the Greek police academy to be at least 1.70 meters tall amounted to indirect sex discrimination which could not be objectively justified. The ECJ is the EU’s highest legal authority, tasked with...Read More

What is direct discrimination?

Section 13 of the Equality Act 2010 (EqA) says that “A person (A) discriminates against another (B) if, because of a protected characteristic, A treats B less favourably than A treats or would treat others.” But what is a protected characteristic? Age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity...Read More

Managing work place stress

  DENTAL BULLETIN, ISSUE 56   The BDA’s Evidence to the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration for 2017/18  found that 51% of the dental profession would not recommend a career in dentistry. The same report found that both practice owners and associates considered their morale to be ‘low’ or ‘very low’ at 29 per cent and 32 per cent respectively. In response the BDA...Read More