Legal News

• Employers beware: Crack down on misuse of NDAs in the workplace

  • PostedSeptember 11, 2019

  Government consultation recently closed on 29th April this year which looked at regulation of confidentiality clauses within non-disclosure agreements or NDAs. In the employment context this means confidentiality clauses as...

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• Holiday entitlement for term-time only workers cannot be pro-rated

  • PostedSeptember 10, 2019

  Case update: Brazel v The Harpur [2019] EWCA Civ 1402 At the beginning of the year, we reported on the Employment Appeal Tribunal’s decision in the case of Brazel v...

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• Who is responsible for a mouldy problem?

  • PostedSeptember 10, 2019

  By the end of 2021, a quarter of UK households will rent privately. That’s approximately 5.8 million households renting, due to the combination of soaring house prices and salaries remaining...

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• NHS to receive £6.2 billion extra funding

  • PostedSeptember 9, 2019

  The chancellor, Sajid Javid, has announced a spending review that will see an extra £6.2bn going towards the NHS next year. This will include £210m for frontline staff. This should...

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• £150,000 obtained for horse-related injury

  • PostedSeptember 4, 2019

  Tim Gleave has obtained a £150,000 settlement for a young lady who was injured by a horse. Miss C was leading a horse to a paddock when the horse reared...

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• Post-Brexit pro-discrimination – Managing Equality and Diversity in the workplace

  • PostedSeptember 3, 2019

  Three years after the UK’s decision to leave the EU, we continue to see a split in society and the profound feelings of some areas in opposition to immigration and...

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• Contested Probate – How and why wills can be contested

  • PostedSeptember 2, 2019

  Distributing the estate of a deceased person is a challenge that often results in legal wrangles between family and friends, especially if they feel that they haven’t been included in...

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• Has your business embraced flexible working?

  • PostedSeptember 2, 2019

  All employees that have been employed for 26 weeks or more have the right to request flexible working patterns, without having to give any reason. However, research released today by...

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• Over £26,000 obtained after piece of gastric band was left in body

  • PostedAugust 30, 2019

  Loveness Chihoyi, a chartered legal executive at Ashtons Legal has obtained over £26,000 for a woman who had a piece of her removed gastric band left in her body for...

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• Council concealed asbestos risk from woman now terminally ill from asbestos cancer

  • PostedAugust 30, 2019

  A former Dagenham woman is terminally ill from an asbestos cancer she contracted from washing her husband’s overalls, after the local council who employed him had told him there was...

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• Sale of Greene King will excite the Taxman

  • PostedAugust 30, 2019

  The offer by Hong Kong based CKA Group to acquire Greene King was a hot topic with the East Anglian media last week. It is also likely to be greeted...

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• Compensation obtained for family of man who died after treatment error

  • PostedAugust 29, 2019

  Amanda Cavanagh, a Medical Negligence Specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained a substantial amount of compensation for the family of a man who died after he was not given heparin...

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