Legal News
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Posted 18/03/2010 A woman who was left with permanent brain damage after undergoing surgery for gallstones has been awarded a landmark compensation payout. Grannia East, now 44, went into the...
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Posted 13/10/2014 Flexible Investment Choice and Inheritance Tax advantages. From 1 July 2014, ISA’s became New ISA’s (NISA’s) and now have more flexible and advantageous features. NISA’S are simply tax...
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Posted 07/10/2014 A pre-Inquest review is to be held tomorrow (9 October) into the death of a Pulham Market woman who died following varicose vein surgery. Nicola Tweedy, 54,...
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Posted 12/10/2010 Businesses could face more employment law tribunals after it was found that the gender pay gap in Britain is still not being addressed. A survey carried out by...
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Posted 16/12/2010 Changes to employment law due to come into force in February 2011 will see compensation limits for unfair dismissal rise from £65,300 to £68,400. However, specialist lawyers have...
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Posted 16/12/2014 Siobhan McWhinney has obtained a total of £108,000 for two men who were travelling in the back of a friend’s car which failed to stop at a crossroads...
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Posted 08/11/2010 Almost half of the UK’s workplaces have never had a visit from a health and safety inspector, despite the threat this could pose to employees. This is the...
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Posted 10/01/2011 People should have Wills drawn up no matter what their circumstances and marital status, an expert has warned. In an article for Consumer Affairs, Fred Yager said it...
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Posted 26/10/2010 New research has suggested that employers may need to do more if they are to avoid breaching new employment law regarding cancer. According to Cancer Research UK and...
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Posted 12/01/2011 Former Countryfile presenter Miriam O’Reilly has succeeded in her employment law claim against the BBC after it was ruled that the corporation had discriminated against her because of...
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Posted 13/12/2010 The government must not scrap the default retirement age yet, unless it wants to leave British companies open to employment law tribunals. This is the opinion of the...
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Posted 19/03/2010 Women are losing out on executive jobs, despite usually performing better in interviews than their male counterparts. This is the discovery of a new poll by TheLadders.co.uk, which...
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