News & insights

• Penningtons Manches Cooper advises IRIS Software Group on its acquisition of Innervision
  Posted: 19/09/2019
  Penningtons Manches Cooper’s corporate team has advised IRIS Software Group, the UK’s largest privately held software company, on its acquisition of Innervision......>>
• Penningtons Manches Cooper puts Kettle’s Yard in the frame once again
  Posted: 19/09/2019
  The Cambridge office of top 50 law firm Penningtons Manches Cooper is delighted to announce the renewal of its sponsorship of Kettle’s Yard, the University of Cambridge’s world-class modern and contemporary art gallery......>>
• Anaesthetic awareness: the dangers of waking up during surgery
  Posted: 18/09/2019
  A 43-year old woman has been awarded damages of £28,000 after suffering a period of ‘anaesthetic awareness’ during bowel surgery. Although it is widely recognised that all surgery carries risk, the risk of anesthetic awareness, where a patient is conscious during surgery, is less well known......>>
• New blood test could improve prostate cancer treatment for thousands of British men
  Posted: 17/09/2019
  Scientists are trialling a new blood test that may be available on the NHS in the future to help screen patients with aggressive prostate cancer......>>
• Husband awarded compensation after death of his wife due to negligent treatment following heart operation
  Posted: 17/09/2019
  Penningtons Manches Cooper’s clinical negligence team has settled a claim against Basildon and Thurrock Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of a husband whose wife died two days after routine coronary surgery, following a failure to diagnose and treat cardiac tamponade......>>

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Publications

E-Bulletins

• Employment alert - 18 September 2019
  In this issue: Rise Community Action, a small charity, employed Ms Okwu as a domestic violence and female genital mutilation specialist worker.

• Pensions update - September 2019
  In this issue: You may recall that the auto-enrolment regime for workplace pensions includes a requirement for employers to re-enrol eligible employees who have opted out back into their auto-enrolment scheme.

• Employment alert - 29 August 2019
  In this issue: A recent decision of the Hellenic Data Protection Agency (HDPA), the Greek equivalent of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) confirms that employers.

• Employment alert - 22 August 2019
  In this issue: It is well established that part-time workers receive a full timer’s entitlement to pay but on a pro-rata basis.

• Employment alert - 12 August 2019
  In this issue: Sometimes, according to a recent Court of Appeal case. The employee, a live-in domestic worker, did not have a visa for the entirety of her employment.

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Brochures & factsheets

• Academic spinouts - a report on the funding of UK spinouts 2016-2017
  This report from Penningtons Manches builds on work begun in Financing Growth in Innovative Firms, the consultation published as part of the Patient Capital Review. That report identified growing levels of investment into spinouts in the UK in the context of a perceived dearth of capital available on patient terms.
• Charity legacy report 2017 - bridging the gap?
  The charities team at Penningtons Manches saw an increasing need to better understand some of the challenges for charities and probate practitioners when dealing with the specialist area of legacies to charities.
• Data protection survey - Spring 2015
  Earlier this year, the Penningtons Manches data protection team sent an online questionnaire to data protection lawyers in Multilaw firms around Europe to gather and share insight into the current trends and perceptions about data protection regulation across Europe.
• Banking and finance fact sheet
  An overview of Penningtons Manches' banking and finance team: we provide clear, practical advice to guide our clients through transactions and issues to help them achieve their goals. We work closely with every client to gain a thorough understanding of their objectives.
• Clinical negligence and personal injury fact sheet
  An overview of Penningtons Manches’ clinical negligence and personal injury team: our clinical negligence and personal injury practice is one of the largest in the UK providing nationwide coverage from our offices in London, Cambridge, Oxford, Reading, Hampshire and Surrey.
• Commercial fact sheet
  An overview of Penningtons Manches' commercial team: our commercial team drafts, reviews and negotiates commercial agreements of all types and at all stages in the development and supply chain.

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