Legal News
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Posted 16/12/2009 Trade union Unite has urged the Church of England to do more to safeguard the rights of vicars and reverends under employment law. Rachael Maskell, the union’s national...
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Posted 20/06/2012 With another dog bite case hitting the local headlines (click here to read the full story), it is perhaps as good a time as any to revisit this...
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Posted 09/08/2012 There has been a significant reduction in the number of people who can continue to afford private healthcare and BUPA have warned that the private healthcare market is facing...
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Posted 09/10/2014 Antibiotic prescriptions and cases of resistant bacteria in England have continued to soar despite dire warnings and campaigns, figures show. Public Health England found a 6% increase in prescriptions...
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Posted 04/01/2010 The NHS has been accused of wasting taxpayers’ money on legal efforts to deny female workers the equal pay to which they are entitled under employment law. Public...
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Posted 06/07/2014 Dying need ‘free social care’ say cancer campaigners A report issued by Macmillan Cancer Support says that providing free social care could save the NHS £69m a year...
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Posted 03/07/2014 £7,000 obtained for family of Suffolk man following his premature death in hospital Julie Crossley, a medical injury specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained a settlement of £7,000...
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Posted 08/11/2010 A man who suffered devastating injuries when he was knocked down by a car has been awarded £1.13 million in personal injury compensation. Slovakian national Milan Rybansky, 34,...
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Posted 24/12/2009 The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called on the government to do more to safeguard the rights of agency workers under employment law. Brendan Barber, general secretary of...
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Posted 13/10/2009 The redundancy rate in the UK dropped to 233,000 in the three months to August 2009, official figures have revealed. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS),...
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Posted 04/09/2014 Warnings over e-cigarettes are alarmist and increasing their use could save many lives according to researchers at University College London (UCL). In their view, for every million smokers who...
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Posted 03/10/2012 The start of the legal year or at least the court year was on 1 October. Pictures of judges in procession, male and female, dressed in tights and...
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