Legal News
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Posted 22/01/2010 UK companies are pessimistic about their prospects during early 2010 due to the increasing risk posed by insolvency, according to new research. Statistics published by insolvency trade body...
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Posted 24/05/2010 A woman is taking her former employer to an employment law tribunal amid claims of unfair dismissal. Deidre Clark, 44, was sacked from city company Allen & Overy...
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Posted 06/07/2010 Unions across the UK have reacted angrily to announcements that ministers intend to cap redundancy pay for civil servants. Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said that the government...
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Posted 22/01/2010 The rising levels of debt faced by many older homeowners has made equity release a more useful and relevant financial option. This is the view of debt charity...
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Posted 24/06/2013 The BBC reported today that tamoxifen will be offered to women at risk of breast cancer. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says tamoxifen or...
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Posted 19/07/2010 Wills Speaking to the Gloucestershire Citizen, law expert Rhian Rees warned dying without a valid Will – referred to in legal terms as dying intestate – can be...
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Posted 09/06/2015 The Supreme Court has had placed before it this week two cases which concern the truthfulness of the evidence given by one spouse in Divorce Financial Proceedings about...
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Posted 16/07/2013 Julie Crossley, a medical injury specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained a £10,000 settlement for Mrs S from Suffolk, whose bowel was perforated during surgery for endometriosis. This...
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Posted 28/07/2010 The government has announced that the default retirement age for men and women will be scrapped in October 2011. Ministers have said the change in legislation – which...
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Posted 04/07/2010 The Equality Bill which was passed in April 2010 is to be launched in the UK this October, the coalition government has said. Home secretary Theresa May said...
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Posted 20/08/2013 The BBC has reported that a lifetime of too much copper in our diets may be contributing to Alzheimer’s disease.The research by scientists in the US has suggested...
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Posted 15/01/2015 The end of a relationship is never an easy time. There is the emotional fall out to deal with – if you have been living together you may...
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