Month: May 2020

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. And it’s timely. Blog by Jo Sinclair.

21 May 2020

Employers have a general statutory duty to ensure the mental health and safety of their workers. In addition, they owe a common law duty to take reasonable care of their employees’ safety. I think we are all acutely aware of the impact that the Covid-19 health crisis has and will continue to have on the […]

“Zoom, just one look and my heart went…”

15 May 2020

Not boom. Like almost every other lawyer I know, I have spent the past two months working from home and video conferencing with colleagues and clients. It has its uses, of course it does, but if I never have to see my own pixel-face looking back at me through my computer screen again, I am […]

Anita Vadgama on working from home

1 May 2020

This week hasn’t been easy.  The weather took a downward turn and so did my mood.  The realisation that we will be in lockdown for weeks and social distancing for months hit me hard as a working mum.  I am the cartoon I saw yesterday; a woman with multiple arms – teaching, zooming, cleaning, cooking, […]