On Tuesday 19 March 2013 we welcomed more than 100 businesses, local professionals and longstanding clients to a drinks and canapés reception to meet our newest members of the team.

Breach of contract – or not? Solicitor Patrick Peake reviews an employment case that overturned restrictive covenants.

Proposals for a new type of employee ownership were announced by the chancellor, George Osborne last October, which would see employees exchanging some of their employment rights in return for shares in their employer company.

All lawyers are taught that the rule created by the 1868 case of Rylands v Fletcher imposes strictliability for the foreseeable consequences of a landowner’s failure to control the risk that something which he brings onto, collects or keeps on his land may escape and cause damage to adjoining land.

Head of employment, Matthew Clayton discusses the new cap on unfair dismissals likely to receive Royal Assent this spring.