An employment tribunal is to be held on 5th October for John Argent, a former trader at Lloyds Banking Group, who is suing the bank for unfair dismissal following the probe into alleged Libor rate rigging. Mr Argent was dismissed, along with seven other...
A growing number of individuals are taking will-related disputes to the High Court. Recent figures have indicated that the number of cases rose to 178 last year, which represents an increase of over 80 per cent from the previous year. The figure is the...
A couple has been awarded £10,000 each in damages, in one of the first cases of its kind, after their eight children were taken away by a local authority and placed in foster care. The damages were awarded under the Human Rights Act, after it was...
The Energy and Climate Change Committee, which consists of 11 MPs, has launched an inquiry into how much of an impact the recent changes to UK energy policy have had on the number of those willing to invest in renewable energy. As part of the report,...
Britain’s employment laws could be damaging small business, according to new market research. When asked whether current employment law affected their decision to hire more staff, 39 per cent of small businesses said they would if employment law was...
Thousands of families nationwide may not benefit from changes to Inheritance Tax (IHT) laws unless they alter their Wills, it was claimed this month. Experts in the legal industry have said that those who had set up discretionary trusts will not be able to...
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority – regulator for the fertility clinic sector –has revealed that 51 out of the 109 licensed clinics it inspected had irregularities in their records. Sir James Munby, President of the Family...
Last Wednesday the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) announced that it would remove pre-accreditation for the feed-in-tariff with effect from 1st October. Pre-accreditation allows solar PV and wind projects above 50kW and all hydro and anaerobic...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that time spent travelling to and from first and last appointments by workers without a fixed office should be regarded as working time. This time has not previously been considered as work by many employers and...
New research suggests that around a third of UK adults would be happy to leave a charitable gift in their will, but fewer than one in ten actually do. Remember a Charity, the organisation which encourages people to consider bequests to good causes, is this...
A British man who entered a commercial surrogacy agreement with an American woman has been told that, because of UK law, he cannot be named as the child’s legal parent. The boy at the centre of the case, who is now over 12 months old, was born in...
Clive Joy-Morancho – a 56-year-old businessman – has won a legal battle with his estranged wife regarding the ownership of a collection of 35 classic cars estimated to be worth almost £20 million. Following the breakdown of the marriage,...
The family of a well-known actor may miss out on some of his £1.4million fortune after it emerged that he had not made a Will. Roger Lloyd-Pack, best-known for playing Trigger in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, had died from pancreatic cancer in...
Every October brings new employment law changes, and employees will find 2015 is no different. Here are five employment law changes employers need to prepare for this autumn. 1. Referrals under the new Fit for Work service The Government’s new Fit...