The European Medicines Agency (EMA), the European Union’s medicines regulator, has adopted the UK’s “black triangle” system to highlight those drugs that have potentially bigger dangers of side effects. The move comes as part of the new EU pharmacovigilance laws and is intended to help to highlight and encourage earlier reporting of any particular serious… Learn more

The pharma industry must work closer with and listen to pharmacists in order to optimise use of medicines, according to Dr Charles Alessi, chairman of the National Association of Primary Care and interim chairman of NHS Clinical Commissioners. Alessi, who is a senior adviser with Public Health England, said something had to be done about… Learn more

I recently acted for an insolvency practitioner who, further to his appointment as an administrator, found himself on the end of a sex discrimination claim arising out of his alleged unfair processing of payroll.  In most cases, an employee’s claims are against the insolvent company as the employer, rather than the insolvency practitioner personally. However,… Learn more