Legal News
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Posted 02/06/2010 White job applicants at the BBC could be disadvantaged in interviews because the corporation is favouring ethnic minority candidates. This is the suggestion of new figures published by...
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Posted 28/05/2014 Diane Hilton has obtained £5,500 for Ms B who suffered whiplash injuries after the car she was driving was hit by a lorry on a petrol station forecourt....
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Posted 14/03/2014 Julie Crossley, a clinical negligence lawyer at Ashtons Legal, has obtained a settlement of £20,500 for a lady in the Midlands. Mrs P went into hospital for a...
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Posted 04/03/2011 Lord Sugar has raised controversy about the current employment law in Britain by arguing that employers should be allowed to ask prospective female employees about their plans to...
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Posted 03/05/2010 Currently, doctors can only advise whether an individual can or cannot work. To encourage more people to get back to work sooner, and to encourage employers to facilitate...
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Posted 05/05/2010 A widow has won her case for industrial disease compensation after fighting a legal battle against her husband’s former employers. Ken Mitchell, 56, died in 2005 after developing...
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Posted 26/05/2014 A young Spixworth man who died after jumping from the roof of the Castle Mall in Norwich had told clinicians that he had rigged a noose in his...
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Posted 27/05/2014 Hospital agrees out-of-court settlement after Lincolnwoman’s suicide: A hospital has agreed to pay five figure damages after allegations that they didn’t recognize a Lincoln woman’s mental illness and...
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Posted 10/07/2014 It was reported today by the BBC that, in reply to their Freedom of Information Act requests, of the 62 trusts that replied , 51% said they had ...
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Posted 29/04/2010 Equity release should be promoted by the winner of the forthcoming election as a potential solution to retirement funding shortfalls. This is the view of trade body Safe...
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Posted 18/02/2011 Changes to UK employment law could end up costing British businesses millions of pounds, a new report has revealed. The study, undertaken by the British Chamber of Commerce...
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Posted 10/08/2014 A pioneering new breast cancer treatment will not be routinely available in England, the NHS drugs advisory body NICE is proposing. The drug – Kadcyla – adds six months...
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