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- Everybody needs good neighbours - Cybersecurity for Law Firms: Managing Risks & Busting Myths - Personal Branding Webinar Series - Manchester Pride Brunch - Dates for the diary - August Messenger
- MLS Court Reports Journal Issue 12 - Legal News for your website and social media
Ready to prove you’re better than Pep or Erik? Want to show that you’re wasted in the legal profession and really the Premier League is the place for you?
Well, the time has come to prove it and to join the Manchester Law Society Fantasy Football League for the 2023/24 season.
Joining couldn’t be easier by using the following this link and using the code ro8t0h. You'll need to sign in or set up an account but then you can get on with the important work of picking your players and designing your kit.
We’ll be watching the competition carefully and reporting on our members’ glorious successes (and ignominious failures…) during the course of the season.
We wanted to introduce our new neighbours at 62 Bridge Street – the delightful Juicebox! A friendly and welcoming coffee shop, bottle shop and wine bar.
They are open early during the week for speciality coffees, pastries and cookies. From midday they serve daily fresh focaccia sandwiches, seasonal small plates, cheeseboards, and charcuterie to complement a daily changing selection of 15+ wines by the glass, seasonal cocktails, tonics and craft beers.
Fran and I popped in during their opening week when Fran had the best mocha of her life. She’s been back at least twice since! We’re now calling it Meeting Room 2 in the office.
Members have received a special opening offer from me in their inboxes on Monday.
We asked the General Manager Alex for a bit more information about the venue: "At the weekend we’re open till midnight, with added DJ’s and the most delicious fried chicken sandwiches! "Predominantly stocking low intervention, bio-dynamic/natty styles of wine, alongside a selection everyday drinkers and serious bottles for cellaring. Local and national craft beers, canned cocktails, vermouth, amaro and a selection of cool small batch spirits are all offer too.
"We also sell food-store cupboard essentials, super tasty snacks and fancy deli goods, all of which we use to produce our small plates menu.
"Everything from our shop can be taken away or enjoyed sit-in; and we’ll open any ‘off the shelf’ bottle for just £5 corkage. "3 seasonal small plates are just £15 between 12-5pm every day, and with a daily changing selection of focaccia sandwiches, house cookies and coffee - lunch is sorted too. "The Juicebox house negroni is £5 all day, every day. Our seasonal cocktails and tonics menu leans heavily into vermouth, amaro and sherry; again with options for both sit-in and takeaway.”
If you ever can’t find us in the office it might be worth checking Juicebox! So... anyone for coffee?
Date: 14 November 2023 Time: 13:00 to 13:45 Location:Online via Teams Cost to attend:Free but you must book your place
Cyberattacks shut down organisations and are now one of the most serious threats to law firms. They should be at the top of your risk register. Attackers and the techniques they use are sophisticated, ever-evolving, and defending against them is complex. Leaders who are lagging behind are putting their firm and clients’ sensitive information at risk. A serious breach can have devastating consequences.
In this webinar, MLS partner Mitigo will bring to life the attacks that are hitting firms and give a view of what it takes to become protected.
The session will cover the following:
Why misunderstanding cyber risk could ruin your reputation.
Take a closer look at the latest cyber threats facing law firms.
Learn more about the criminal ecosystem.
Understand the common security errors made by law firms.
Are you failing to satisfy your regulatory and legal obligations?
Find out how to stay one step ahead of the bad guys.
Date: Various Time: 13:00-14:00 Location:Online via Teams Cost to attend: Free but you must book your place
Have you attended our series of free personal branding webinars yet?
We still have four left in the series so why not join and hear from Phil Ossai on topics from how it can jumpstart your career to attracting the right talent to your vacancies.
All the webinars are free, held from 13:00 to 14:00 and take place on Teams. If you would like more information on the sessions or book your place, please click on the links below:
In 2022, Phil turned his passion for personal branding into a mission, founding OSSAI into a thriving six-figure personal branding agency. OSSAI, under Phil’s leadership, has enabled everything from small law firms to FTSE 100 companies to harness LinkedIn for business results that all professionals actually want: a tangible return on investment not on vanity metrics.
Book your place using the links aboveor by emailing ChandreMay@manchesterlawsociety.org.uk with the name and email address of the delegate and the session you would like to attend.
Date: Saturday 26 August 2023 Time: 11:00 – 14:00 Location: Trafford Suite, The Midland Hotel, 16 Peter St, Manchester M60 2DS Cost to attend: £36.00 including VAT per guest Dress code: Pride Fabulous! This is not a formal event – dress to impress!
There are still some places up for grabs at our Manchester Pride Brunch!
Why not come along, with your friends, family and colleagues, and join us?
Taking place at the iconic Midland Hotel, we will kick off in style with welcome cocktail on arrival followed by a delicious brunch with a cash bar with some brilliant drinks offers. Then watch the parade from our exclusive viewing area on the steps of the hotel.
This is the ultimate way to celebrate this year’s Manchester Pride – along with your friends, family, and colleagues!
Employers are obliged reasonably to consider an employee’s request for permission to work from home. However, in a ruling of critical concern to the ever-increasing cohort of globetrotting workers, an Employment Tribunal (ET) has ruled that the rule does not apply where the ‘home’ concerned is outside the UK. A civil servant wished to accompany his wife to Luxembourg, where she had obtained employment. He sought permission from his employer – a government department – to work from his prospective new home in Luxembourg full time. After his request was refused, he launched ET proceedings alleging that the department had failed reasonably to consider his application.
Ruling on the matter, the ET noted that Section 80F of the Employment Rights Act 1996 confers on employees a right to request variations of their contracts so as to enable flexible working. Employers must reasonably consider such requests and may only refuse them on a number of specified grounds, including organisational difficulties, cost and a detrimental effect on the ability to meet customer demand.
The ET observed that the question of persons employed in the UK working remotely from abroad hardly ever arose prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. One obvious point was that employees who work full time at a place of business in the UK will generally have their usual abode, or residence, in this country.
It was important to note that a successful application to work full time outside the UK would result in an employee’s normal place of work being in a foreign jurisdiction. In the case of a civil servant, it would effectively create a UK government workplace within the jurisdiction of another sovereign state. Any such employment would also not fall solely within the jurisdiction of UK employment law.
An employer confronted with an application to work full time from abroad would need to take legal advice on the employment laws applying in the country concerned. It might also encounter security, data protection and other risks and would be exposed to reputational damage if the employee failed to comply with local laws on tax, residency and permission to work.
The ET found that Parliament had envisaged the word ‘home’ to mean a home within the UK when it enacted Section 80F. The provision was never intended to apply to working outside the UK. The civil servant’s application to work full time from a home outside the jurisdiction thus did not fall within the scope of Section 80F.
Case notes: Corke v Department for Transport. Case Number: 2207602/2022
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