When shared parental leave was introduced back in April 2015, many commentators questioned how many employees would take advantage of this new right. Whilst the new right allowed mothers and their partners to share up to 50 weeks shared parental…
One of the key themes for employment law in 2016 has been the rise of the “gig” economy and the challenges that it throws up in terms of employment status for those working within this economy. What is meant by…
Technology Partner Andrew Katz visited Sweden several times last year in his capacity as Visiting Researcher at the University of Skövde, funded by a Swedish Government grant intended to attract international experts. Working alongside Bitr. Professor Björn Lundell, and Dr…
What’s software as a service? Well, you take some software, and then you host it, so logically, a SaaS agreement is a licence agreement plus a hosting agreement, right? Wrong. This is a ‘licence+hosting’ model, but in reality, a SaaS…
(This notice is in addition to our other post for a permanent role) We’re looking for a tech lawyer to cover for maternity leave. The leave itself is likely to start in November, but we would like the individual covering…
If SaaS, PaaS and IaaS; GPL, LGPL and AGPL; DPA, IoT, TCP/IP, TLD and BYOD; C, C++ and JS all mean something to you, read on… You will be a lawyer with strong academics and an enthusiasm for technology (maybe…
Technology Partner Andrew Katz has contributed a chapter to the Open Forum Academy’s new book on Open Innovation. For more details, click here.
Adrian Phillips founded Moorcrofts 15 years ago on 17th January 2000: Moorcrofts has just celebrated its 15th anniversary. In those 15 years, under Adrian’s leadership, we’ve grown to 10 lawyers and garnered an enviable reputation in the areas that we…
Moorcrofts were pleased to be instructed by Phaidon International (UK) in relation to an injunction on notice to prevent a former employee competing with its business in breach of restrictive covenants contained in the employment contract. Moorcrofts were successful in…
The new entitlement to shared parental leave (“SPL”) will come into effect for babies whose expected week of childbirth is on or after 5 April 2015 (or a child who is placed for adoption after that date). This new entitlement…
Adrian Phillips led the Moorcrofts team acting for the shareholders of Power Planning Associates on the sale of the Company to Ricardo plc. Neil Pinto, Practice Director at PPA energy (in his capacity as shareholder of PPA) said “I would be…
The Open Forum Academy has published its latest book, Research on Open Innovation featuring a chapter by Andrew Katz. The chapter, Blurring the Line Between Producer and Creator, deals with the way law and licensing must respond to the democratisation of…