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Taylor Review found wanting

11 August 2017
Issue: 7758 / Categories: Legal News , Employment
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A proposal by the Taylor Review into employment practices to make employers pay similar National Insurance contributions for the self-employed as they do for employees might help discourage exploitation, solicitor Stephen Levinson, consultant, Keystone Law, writes in this week’s NLJ. However, he says its proposal to incorporate case law into legislation ‘ignores the appalling complexity that can thus be created’, and renaming ‘workers’ as ‘dependent contractors’ fails to alter anything of substance. Moreover, its recommendation that the law be regularly re-examined reveals ‘little appreciation of the practical difficulty government departments have every year in securing parliamentary time’

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NEWS
Robert Taylor of 360 Law Services warns in this week's NLJ that adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) risks entrenching disadvantage for SME law firms, unless tools are tailored to their needs
From oligarchs to cosmetic clinics, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) target journalists, activists and ordinary citizens with intimidating legal tactics. Writing in NLJ this week, Sadie Whittam of Lancaster University explores the weaponisation of litigation to silence critics
Delays and dysfunction continue to mount in the county court, as revealed in a scathing Justice Committee report and under discussion this week by NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School. Bulk claims—especially from private parking firms—are overwhelming the system, with 8,000 cases filed weekly
Writing in NLJ this week, Thomas Rothwell and Kavish Shah of Falcon Chambers unpack the surprise inclusion of a ban on upwards-only rent reviews in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
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