Looking Closer with Beck Greener Beck Greener LLP

Beck Greener Looking Closer: The importance of Corporate Social Responsibility for businesses and how to succeed in this growing area.
In Beck Greener’s second podcast, Looking Closer, Partners James Stones and Catherine Jewell discuss the topic of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) – what it is, Beck Greener’s CSR strategy, what made it award winning and offer some useful advice to organisations contemplating their own CSR projects. Doing business responsibly and creating a positive impact in the community/local environment can really benefit businesses and this area of CSR is only becoming more important for both employers and employees.

 


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In Beck Greener’s first podcast, Looking Closer, Partners Avi Freeman and Jonathan Markham discuss the subject of employee-inventor compensation. This is in light of the recent UK Supreme Court decision, Unilever v Shanks [2019] UKSC 45. In the decision only the second successful UK case of its type, Professor Shanks was awarded £2 million in compensation from his former employer, Unilever. The discussion covers how courts are to decide if an invention provides outstanding benefit to the inventor’s employer and how to determine the inventor’s right to compensation if it does.
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