Level up your next business event: Explore Cambridge’s most unique venues at IWM Duxford
Cambridge businesses are invited to explore the city’s most unique event spaces at the ‘Meet Cambridge Venue Showcase’, taking place at IWM Duxford on Thursday 5 March.
Digital visa systems & increased employer risk exposure
This article examines UK visa processes from an employer governance perspective. It explains how digital immigration systems, application sequencing and border verification mechanisms create organisational exposure, and why board-level awareness of these processes is now a practical requirement rather than a specialist concern.
How UK employers shape the employee experience
This article looks at the main elements of the employee experience in the UK, covering onboarding, development, engagement, recognition and performance management and how these areas interact in practice.
How UK employers use benefits & rewards to retain staff
This article looks at how employers can design and operate employee benefits, rewards and wellbeing initiatives in a way that is workable, proportionate and sustainable, including practical considerations for smaller organisations and approaches that support long-term retention.
Managing employees in the UK: Law, practice & workforce stability
This guide looks at how employers manage staff in practice, covering legal obligations, internal policies and the practical realities of engagement, development and exit management.
Employment Rights Act 2025: New implementation timeline published
The revised timeline may buy employers some time to prepare, but it does not reduce the exposure that is coming or make late adjustment cheaper.
Linnk Group accelerates recruitment placements with seamless CRM integration
Previously relying on a manual workflow with a previous supplier, Linnk Group found that issuing employment contracts was a slow process prone to human error.
Verlingue acquires Cambridge-based Employee Benefits specialist EBCam
Verlingue announces the acquisition of Cambridge-based Employee Benefits and Financial Planning specialist, EBCam, marking an important step in its continued expansion in the UK Employee Benefits market.
TSF Finance transforms document efficiency, reclaiming 90% of time for high-value consulting
TSF Finance, a highly successful and forward-thinking brokerage, regularly reviews its operational stack to ensure every client touchpoint is exceptional.
Cambs Digitise approved on the BlueLight Commercial Legacy Media Digitisation Framework
Cambs Digitise has been approved as a supplier on the BlueLight Commercial Legacy Media Digitisation Framework, supporting UK policing with outsourced VHS and niche media digitisation with DEMS integration.
AI vs HR: Navigating AI-generated employee grievances
In this podcast episode, Howes Percival's employment law Partners, Nick Benton and Hannah Ball, discuss the rise of employee grievances drafted using AI tools.
Recruitment risk & immigration status: what employers need to know about ILR & citizenship applications
This article explains the connection between immigration status and recruitment risk. We explain how misunderstandings around settlement, EU status and citizenship can lead employers to overestimate a worker’s long-term availability. We also explore how settlement and citizenship eligibility affects job mobility, internal transfers and decisions to accept promotions or international…
Mills & Reeve advises on over £800m worth of deals in 2025 as Central & East market remains robust
Mills & Reeve has advised on over £800 million worth of deals in 2025 across the Central & East region. The firm’s corporate teams in Cambridge, Norwich and Oxford have acted on 54 significant deals in the last 12 months with a combined deal value of £802 million. Deal activity spanned various sectors, including food and agriculture, healthcare, technology, energy, life sciences and insurance.
Are you leaking your data by using AI?
Are you leaking private data through public AI? Here are 6 ways to prevent it.
Psychological Safety, Trust, and the Conversations That Shape How People Feel at Work
Work is where people want to feel safe, respected, and valued—not just productive. As many organisations move away from formal DEI initiatives, trust and psychological safety are declining, leaving employees less willing to speak up or fully show up at work. Research shows fewer people feel they can bring their whole selves to the workplace, leading to disengagement and emotional withdrawal. …
Relocating to the US: Visa Guide
For UK businesses and entrepreneurs planning a move into the United States, immigration strategy should be approached as a commercial decision, rather than a last-minute compliance consideration. The route you choose will shape how quickly you can relocate, who can work, how flexible your operations are and how exposed you become to future immigration or tax risk.
Sponsored workers’ families: Settlement risks for employers
Employers who understand the pressures workers face when supporting their family through Home Office applications can better anticipate workforce risk and plan for absences linked to family immigration milestones.
The importance of self-awareness for effective leadership
One of the great privileges of the work we do is seeing what happens when people are helped to become more aware of these things, and to work with others on improving how they interact within teams. And last week’s workshop with leaders from Viridor’s operations across the South West was no exception.
Family visa routes for sponsored workers: A guide for UK employers
Employers who sponsor workers often focus on work-visa requirements and the timelines for visa extension or settlement. In practice, a sponsored worker’s ability to remain in the UK lawfully is often influenced just as much by their own family’s immigration position. In this guide for employers, we take a look at the visa routes most relevant to their sponsored and foreign national workers,…
Growth, despite the EPO’s focus on technical problems, Marks & Clerk report finds
Continued growth and ongoing mainstream adoption: AI patent publications at the EPO hit an all-time high in 2024, demonstrating the sustained, record-level investment and output in European AI development.A tale of two innovation races: While the US and South Korea domi
UK ILR Consultation: Implications for Employers
As the UK government consults on reform of the ILR rules, we consider the potential implications for employers of changes to settlement routes and how these could impact workforce planning, recruitment and retention.
Howes Percival ranked #1 Best Law Firm to Work For in the UK by Best Companies
Firm retains Best Companies’ highest level of accreditation for "world class" levels of workplace engagement.
How to prepare for a Home Office Audit
Home Office audits are now often digital. In this guide, we look at how to build centralised, robust right to work compliance files that can withstand desktop reviews and avoid a civil penalty.
Rapidly growing Private Client team celebrates gold accreditation
The Private Client team at leading law firm Howes Percival LLP is celebrating success having recently been awarded the Gold Employer Partner accreditation by the global professional body STEP.