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Posted 24/05/2012 Changes to employment law being proposed by the coalition government are not going to encourage companies in the UK to create jobs.This is the view of Jacqueline Gold,...
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Posted 16/09/2012 Flying in the face of the often hysterical headlines that have become familiar over recent months, statistics provided by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) have shown...
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Posted 25/04/2011 Half of British adults do not have a Will in place leaving instructions for the distribution of their assets when they die, a new survey has shown. According...
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Posted 03/10/2012 The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has announced that they have referred the UK motor insurance industry to the Competition Commission. This reflects their concerns that insurance premiums...
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Posted 11/06/2012 The government is set to announce changes to employment law this week that it claims will allow members of staff to leave their organisation with “dignity”.Planned reform of...
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Posted 13/09/2012 A report by Monitor, the Health services watchdog, has said that the standard of breast cancer care services at Stafford Hospital is “deeply dysfunctional”. This was the conclusion...
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Posted 07/04/2011 A former soldier is taking legal action against the Ministry of Defence (MoD) over the amount of compensation he received after being injured in Afghanistan. Sgt Rick Clements,...
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Posted 14/04/2011 A nursing home has been forced to pay compensation after a woman died because of its failings in care. Doreen Betts, 78, lived at Kersal Mount Nursing Home...
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Posted 18/06/2012 A council in the south-east of England has blamed employment law for the need to pay significant amounts of redundancy pay to members of staff who have lost...
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Posted 11/04/2011 Employing careful wealth management techniques could help people to reduce the inheritance tax (IHT) burden they leave behind. Country Life magazine recommended that individuals should know the true...
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Posted 15/06/2012 The government has strengthened the law on the separation of parents to make it easier for a child to see both their mother and father.It was announced by...
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Posted 01/08/2012 News that a cyclist has been killed in a collision with an Olympic bus in London once again highlights the danger for cyclists sharing roads with motorised vehicles....
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