Legal News
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Posted 03/03/2011 The government has moved to close an employment law loophole surrounding the implementation of the removal of the default retirement age (DRA). Previously, employers would not have been...
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Posted 02/03/2011 Four new offences and a more effective anti-bribery framework are to be the main features of the new Bribery Act 2010, which comes into force later this year...
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Posted 02/03/2011 It is widely recognised that a failure to ensure the security of a company’s IT systems, including restrictions on staff Internet access, effective data management and protection against...
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Posted 07/04/2011 New research has shown that pregnant women could be facing issues with redundancy in the workplace, despite laws in place to protect them. Charity Working Families said it...
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Posted 27/05/2010 Employers could find themselves open to problems after it was claimed that the government’s new benefits system is declaring people fit to work even when they are not....
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Posted 08/05/2014 From Tuesday 6th May 2014 it became mandatory for any Claimant thinking of making an Employment Tribunal claim against their employer to contact ACAS in the first instance...
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Posted 27/05/2010 An NHS trust has agreed to a £9.7 million payout for a child left badly disabled by injuries he sustained at birth. Lewis Merrigan, now eight, was born...
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Posted 16/06/2010 Targets set by NHS officials are putting surgeons under pressure and increasing the likelihood of clinical negligence, it has been claimed. A poll of the medics carried out...
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Posted 06/06/2010 An RAF officer has been awarded £16,000 in compensation after she was discriminated against in the workplace because of her pregnancy. The officer, who cannot be named, told...
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Posted 31/05/2010 Cohabitees have been advised to make a Will in order to avoid inheritance problems should anything happen to either partner. Property expert Emyr Pierce, writing for the Western...
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Posted 27/03/2011 Gender discrimination has been identified as a problem in the IT sector. According to a study by recruitment firm Greythorn, 85 per cent of female workers in the...
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Posted 16/04/2014 In the period between April 2000 and March 2010, the NHS Litigation Authority received 38 claims for women who have died during or as a result of childbirth....
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