BWB advised new community interest company, Creative Services CIC, on its establishment and the transfer to it from the Arts Council’s trading arm (ArtsCo Trading) of the Own Art, Take it Away and Creative Industry Finance programmes.

Nick Hurd, Minister for Civil Society, is the latest in a stellar list of confirmed speakers at The Rehabilitation Revolution: Opportunities for Charities, Social Enterprises and Mutuals.

Stephen Lloyd has been elected to be Chairman of Ashden; an innovative charity that champions and promotes practical local energy solutions that cut carbon, protect the environment, reduce poverty and improve people's lives. 

On 17 April, Lucy McLynn was appointed as Vice Chair of the Industrial Law Society having served as an elected member of the Executive Committee for the last 5 years.

BWB has been acting for international animal welfare charity, the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) over its opposition to a proposed ‘factory dairy’ in Wales.

BWB will be launching its first HR Leaders’ Forum networking event on 18 April with a discussion about the key challenges facing HR in 2013, led by Andrea Cooper, European Head of HR at GAP.

BWB is pleased to announce that Luke Fletcher and Stephanie Biden have been appointed partners in the firm’s Charity team, effective from April 2013.

BWB's client, National Funding Scheme art galleries encourage philathropy at the click of an app.  

BWB are pleased to support the UK CFA for which Sarah Payne is the company secretary. 

Philip Trott, head of BWB’s Immigration team, has been included in the inaugural ratings list London Super Lawyers 2013.

BWB are pleased to announce that fourteen of our solicitors have been included in the inaugural ratings list London Super Lawyers 2013.

In response to any impression that may have been given at the hearing today of the Public Accounts Committee, we confirm that BWB did not advise the Cup Trust in relation to the creation of the charity or its tax affairs.

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BWB has been pleased to accept the opportunity to respond to the MoJ’s proposals around working with short term offenders to reduce recidivism.

In 2011/2012 there was a growing amount of case law which emphasises the need for employers to take careful consideration before suspending employees during a disciplinary hearing.

In 2012 the Health Service Journal reported that the use of agency nurses by acute and community service providers had risen by 50%. So what are the key things you need to know about handling agency workers?

Isolde Rutherford, a BWB solicitor, is part of a group aiming to create a free school teaching modern music skills in East London.