Wedlake Bell Insights

    • Bulletins
    • Sep 26, 2024

    Code of practice on the new tipping act – What employers need to know

    The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 (the “Tipping Act”) comes into force on 1 October 2024. The Department for Business and Trade has recently published its Code of Practice on the Fair and Transparent Distribution of Tips (the “Code”),

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    • Legal Podcast
    • Aug 19, 2024

    Wedlake Bell Employment Podcast – Episode 2

    In the next edition of the Wedlake Bell Employment Podcast, Legal Director Choy Lau and Solicitor George Cornell discuss the potential changes to employment law under the new Labour Government following the King’s Speech and the top three changes that

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    • Bulletins
    • Aug 9, 2024

    Private Client Legal Update – August 2024

    Some key highlights of legal updates affecting the Private Client industry over the past month are as follows. Tax policy – Autumn Budget On 29 July, Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered a fiscal update to Parliament in which she announced that

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    • Globally Speaking
    • Aug 5, 2024

    Government clarifies non-dom policy: What do we know now?

    Please note that this article was published before the non-dom legislation was finalised and brought into force on 6 April 2025. In this “stop press” edition of our Globally Speaking e-bulletin, we provide an update on how the publication of

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    • Bulletins
    • Jul 30, 2024

    Employment issues – What can I say?

    What an individual can say in circumstances concerning any ‘issues’ they may have faced in their employment and / or their exit may be determined by what contractual documentation has been signed; for example, if the individual has signed a

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    • Bulletins
    • Jul 15, 2024

    Broom v Aguilar

    Although an insolvency case, the judgment of His Honour Judge Paul Matthews, sitting as a High Court Judge, in Broom v Aguilar [2024] EWHC 1764 (Ch) deals with a service issue of more general importance. Mrs Aguilar, a Spanish national,

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    • Bulletins
    • Jul 15, 2024

    Hellard v Ojsc Rossiysky Kredit Bank

    The judgment of Nicholas Thompsell, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, in Hellard & Ors v OJSC Rossiysky Kredit Bank & Ors [2024] EWHC 1783 (Ch) deals with three questions raised by an application of the trustees in bankruptcy

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    • Bulletins
    • Jul 4, 2024

    Sian Participation Corp v Halimeda International Ltd

    In December 2012, Halimeda International Ltd lent $140m to Sian Participation Corp. The loan agreement provided that any claim, dispute or difference of whatever nature arising under, out of or in connection with the loan should be referred to arbitration.

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    • Bulletins
    • Jul 3, 2024

    Re Consort Healthcare

    Restructuring Plans: should an opposing creditor be granted security for costs? Might that open the floodgates where companies are by definition “distressed,” or was this particular Plan more akin to ordinary adversarial litigation? Read our summary below. Consort Healthcare (Tameside)

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