• The Court of Appeal has allowed our client Royal Mencap Society’s appeal.
• The decision is of enormous impact for the care sector; the claim had threatened some providers’ future viability because of a gap in funding estimated in the hundreds of millions of pounds.
• The Court of Appeal held that a care worker was not entitled to be paid the NMW for all the time that she was on a ‘sleep-in’ shift.
We’re delighted to have been recognised again as one of the UK’s Top law firms in The Times’ Best Law Firms 2026. SMB is ranked as one of the leading firms for Family, Crime and Company & Commercial law.
Read moreRecently published independent legal directories, Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 have once again recommended SMB across multiple practice areas.
Read moreWe’re delighted to have advised our client, John Gore Studios, on its majority investment into Hilltop Screen, the television production company recently founded by drama producer, Hilary Bevan Jones.
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