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12/03/2008 : Hope I Die Before I Get Old
When you hear the phrase ‘age discrimination’ what do you think of? Is your first thought panic over whether you can force Norman to retire when he’s 65 next month? Or are you regretting writing ‘now you’re over the hill’… »

12/03/2008 : The Wait Continues...
Improved Legal rights for cohabiting couples are still bleak, despite the recent, and much publicised, Law Commission report on cohabitation and relationship breakdown. The report recommended that couples who had lived together for a qualifying period… »

06/03/2008 : There’s No Disputing it – It’s Time For A Change!
Benjamin Franklin once reportedly said that ‘The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice’.  Many small employers would certainly agree when it comes to the statutory employment dispute resolution procedures introduced… »

04/03/2008 : Prisoners And Work Placements
A man is in prison. The prison has a resettlement unit, the purpose of which is to place prisoners with local businesses in order to prepare them for release and possibly secure them an ongoing job. Our prisoner gets a work placement with a small… »

03/03/2008 : Common Sense Prevails For Media Access to Court Papers
Public access to information about court cases has improved – in a significant victory for open justice. Previously, court staff were routinely refusing journalists access to judicial review papers filed in court. But the head of the Administrative… »

28/02/2008 : Age Discrimination
Age discrimination became unlawful just over two years ago. By March last year, there had been 972 claims made to employment tribunals and, if our experience is anything to go by, that number will now be a lot higher. It is important that employers… »

21/02/2008 : The Dangers Of Being Too Casual With Your Workers
As the beautiful British summer approaches together with the inevitable sight of knotted handkerchiefs and smoke from hastily erected barbeques, many businesses in the region will be looking forward to a busy and profitable season ahead. For many,… »

21/02/2008 : In The Dock: Corporate Manslaughter Reforms
Death by corporate manslaughter enters a new chapter after 6 April. The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2006 will make it easier for all companies to be held responsible for serious failures in the management of health and safety resulting… »

20/02/2008 : Flying Solo In The Divorce Court?
Heather Mills is now acting in person in what could potentially be the biggest ever divorce settlement in English legal history.  What does acting in person mean? It means deciding against using a lawyer or barrister to act for you and doing… »

20/02/2008 : Top Tips To Avoid Repossession
Don’t be an ostrich With repossessions rising by 21% in the last year and predicted to increase in 2008 many homeowners may have concerns about how to handle to repayment difficulties and avoid repossession. The key to sailing through… »

14/02/2008 : Be Warned
For many years the law has been certain in relation to warnings dished out to employees. A verbal or written warning normally has a life of six months and a final written warning a life of twelve months. Once a warning has expired, it could not be relied… »

14/02/2008 : Love Is In The Air Conditioning
Their eyes met across the photocopier. Before long they were spotted sharing their lunch hours together in the staff room. A few months later it became official – our two office lovebirds were engaged.  An office romance is a happy event,… »

12/02/2008 : Second-guessing contempt, and fanciful libel – “love it!”
The contempt laws continue to raise difficult questions about media coverage of on-going court cases. One example concerns the recent press interview of Sally Murrer, the Milton Keynes Citizen journalist charged with aiding and abetting misconduct… »

05/02/2008 : Local Authorities Must Follow Rules Where Children Are Concerned.
Family cases are private matters so we may never know the full story, but the recent removal of a two hour old baby from its mother by a local authority in Nottingham, without any court order, clearly breaks the law. The mother’s social workers… »

05/02/2008 : Sick Pay Whilst On Maternity Leave
A woman started work at the Department for Work and Pensions on 18 April 2006. The following month she told them that she was pregnant and that she intended to begin her maternity leave on 1 August 2006. Unfortunately, on 2 June 2006 she became too ill… »

05/02/2008 : Equal Rights For Carers
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 made it illegal to discriminate against disabled employees, but what about those who care for disabled people? In an Opinion published before the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) the Advocate… »

04/02/2008 : Offshore Wind Farm Plans Set To Change The Coastline Of The South West
Whether you think offshore wind turbines are elegant necessities or overrated eyesores, Energy Secretary John Hutton recently announced the Government plans to build enough of them to power the equivalent of all UK homes by 2020. The proposals,… »

01/02/2008 : Succession Planning And The Family Business
It is a fact that only 24% of UK family businesses survive to the second generation, and only 14% beyond the third. Too many families fail to plan properly for the business to pass to the next generation, with the result that it has to be sold. Often… »

30/01/2008 : Cash Remains King
Recent research carried out by BACS, the body behind the automated banking payment scheme, suggests south west businesses may be facing a real issue with cash flow. Many small and medium sized businesses have debtors running at an unsustainable level.… »

28/01/2008 : Long Term Absence
There are plenty of flu bugs and other ‘nasties’ floating around the average office these days. Inevitably this leads to sickness and absence from work. Thankfully for most employees, absence is relatively brief and there is no question… »

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